A novel valley fill high power factor electronic ballast with dimming feature and low crest factor part I: Design and performance

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 809-814

  Lam, John ^a,b   Jain, Praveen K ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC BALLAST; LAMP CURRENT; POWER CIRCUIT; POWERSIM (PSIM) SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; SWITCHING;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 33749655609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2005.1569008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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