Simple Valley-Fill Self-Oscillating Electronic Ballast with Low Crest Factor Using Pulse-Frequency-Modulation

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 779-784

  Seidel, Álysson R ^a   Bisogno, Fábio E ^a   Pappis, Douglas ^a   Dalla Costa, Marco A ^a   Do Prado, Ricardo N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electronic ballast; Fluorescent lamps; Power factor correction; Self ocillating; Valley fill

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SWITCHING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CREST FACTOR;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0242676824     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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