Detection and regulation of CCFL current and open-lamp voltage while keeping floating condition of the lamp

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 707-710

  Kim, Sang Kyung ^a   Han, Hee Seok ^a   Woo, Young Jin ^a   Cho, Gyu Hyeong ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cold cathode tube; Current sensing; Printed circuit board (PCB) capacitors; Resonant inverters; Voltage sensing

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CATHODES; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

COLD-CATHODE FILAMENT LAMP; OPEN-LAMP VOLTAGE; RESONANT INVERTERS;

FLUORESCENT LAMPS;

EID: 33645721800     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2006.870883     Document Type: Article

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