Dimmable electronic ballast with high power-factor SEPIC preregulator, for multiple tubular fluorescent lamps

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 4043-4049

  Wakabayashi, Fabio Toshiaki ^a   Canesin, Carlos Alberto ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC BALLASTS; HIGH POWER FACTOR (HPF); PREREGULATORS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

DIODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; IGNITION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE SHIFT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SWITCHING;

FLUORESCENT LAMPS;

EID: 8744223351     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2004.1355191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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