An Electrode Power Control Scheme for Dimmable Electronic Ballasts

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1335-1337

  Lee, Stephen T S ^a   Chung, Henry S H ^a   Hui, S Y R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electrode power control; Electronic ballasts; Fluorescent lamps

Indexed keywords

DIMMING (LAMPS); ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; FREQUENCIES; POWER CONTROL; RESONANCE; SWITCHING;

ELECTRODE POWER CONTROL; SWITCHING FREQUENCIES;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0347316665     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2003.819568     Document Type: Article

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