Series igniters effects in metal halide lamps operation with high frequency ballasts: Study and minimization

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 889-898

  Garcia, Jorge Garcia ^a   Cardesín, Jesus ^a   Martín Ramos, Juan A ^a   Dalla Costa, Marco A ^a   Lopera, Juan Manuel ^a   Calleja, Antonio J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acoustic resonances; High frequency (HF) transformers; Metal halide (MH) lamps; Series igniters; Square waveform inverters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; RESONANCE;

ACOUSTIC RESONANCE; METAL HALIDE LAMPS; SERIES IGNITERS; SQUARE WAVEFORM INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC LAMPS;

EID: 34248654075     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.896986     Document Type: Article

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