Designing a self-oscillating electronic ballast with bipolar transistor

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1078-1083

  Seidel, Álysson R ^a   Bisogno, Fábio E ^a   Marchesan, Tiago B ^a   Do Prado, Ricardo N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ballast; Bipolar transistor, describing function; Dimming; Fluorescent lamps; Nyquist criterion; Self oscillating

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; DIMMING (LAMPS); FLUORESCENT LAMPS; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; SWITCHING;

ELECTRONIC BALLASTS;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0036444882     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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