A high-power-factor electronic ballast for metal halide lamps with hot restarting

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 2261-2266

  Lin, T F ^a   Moo, C S ^a   Soong, M J ^a   Chen, W M ^a   Lee, C R ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLASTS (LAMP); ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; LIGHTING; METAL HALIDES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; STARTING;

DC-LINK VOLTAGES; ELECTRONIC BALLASTS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HIGH POWER FACTOR; IGNITION VOLTAGE; PROTOTYPE CIRCUITS; RESONANT INVERTERS; STEADY-STATE OPERATION;

METAL HALIDE LAMPS;

EID: 84968826685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2000.972349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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