Investigation on the start-up of low wattage metal halide lamp controlled by low-frequency square-wave ballast

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 815-819

  Guo, Rong ^a   Yang, Yongbing ^a   Qian, Zhaoming ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CIRCUITS; LOW-WATTAGE MH LAMPS; SQUARE-WAVE ELECTRONIC BALLAST;

METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PROBABILITY;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 33749674362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2005.1569009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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