Design and Analysis of Automotive High Intensity Discharge Lamp Ballast Using Micro Controller Unit

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1356-1364

  Lee, Kyu Chan ^a   Cho, Bo Hyung ^b  

^a Interpower Company Ltd   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automotive high intensity discharge lamp; Ballast; Critical conduction mode; Micro controller unit

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MICROCONTROLLERS; PRODUCT DESIGN; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

HIGH INTENSITY DISCHARGE (HID);

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0242527287     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2003.818868     Document Type: Article

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