Flicker-insensitive light dimmer for incandescent lamps

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 767-772

  Wang, Chau Shing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dimmers; Incandescent lamps; Microcontrollers; Voltage flicker

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FLICKERING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCONTROLLERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

LIGHT DIMMER; VOLTAGE FLICKER;

INCANDESCENT LAMPS;

EID: 40449107650     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.908528     Document Type: Article

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