A novel valley fill high power factor electronic ballast with dimming feature and low crest factor part II: Controller circuit design

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 820-825

  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; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 33749679816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2005.1569010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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