An electronic ballast employing a Boost Half-Bridge topology

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 170-175

  Morais, Aniel S ^a   Gallo, Carlos A ^a   Tofoli, Fernando L ^a   Coelho, Ernane A A ^a   Freitas, Luiz C ^a   Farias, Valdeir J ^a   Vieira, João B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ballasts; Boost Half Bridge Converter; High Power Factor

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLUORESCENT LAMPS;

BALLASTS; BOOST HALF-BRIDGE CONVERTER; COST REDUCTION; HIGH POWER FACTOR;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 2342631197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2004.1295806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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