Design of a two-stage low-frequency square-wave electronic ballast for HID lamps

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 424-430

  Shen, Miaosen ^a   Qian, Zhaoming ^a   Peng, Fang Zheng ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic resonance; Electronic ballast; High intensity discharge (HID) lamp

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE;

ACOUSTIC RESONANCE; ELECTRONIC BALLAST; HIGH INTENSITY DISCHARGE LAMPS;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0037677965     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2003.808921     Document Type: Article

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