An Analysis About Valley Fill Filters Applied to Electronic Ballasts

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 509-514

  Dalla Costa, Marco A ^a   Do Prado, Ricardo N ^a   Campos, Alexandre ^a   Seidel, Álysson R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Comparison; Electronic ballast; Valley fill

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY POWER SYSTEMS; BALLASTS (LAMP); ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; POWER ELECTRONICS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC BALLAST; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); VALLEY FILL;

SWITCHED FILTERS;

EID: 1442304885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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