Development of smaller electronic self-ballasted fluorescent lamp

Fiat Lux: A Fluorescent Lamp Tkansceiver

The prevalence of electric discharge illumination has led us to consider ways to use discharge lamps for communication. This paper describes an optical transceiver system which transmits by modulating the lamp arc. The prototype power electronic lamp ballast uses a pulse frequency modulation scheme which ensures no perceptible flicker.

A Class E Resonant Inverter for Use as Electronic Fluorescent Lamp Ballast

Class E Resonant Inverters are theoretically capable of delivering any power to a load and achieve 100% efficiency at any frequency of operation. In practice efficiency in the “high 90's” can be achieved into megahertz frequencies regardless of inverter output powers. The topology also allows the manipulation of output power through sub-optimal operation, with a negligible efficiency penalty. T...

Fluorescent Lamp Modelling for Voltage Fluctuations

A Behavioral SPICE Compatible Model of an Electrodeless Fluorescent Lamp

* Corresponding author Power Electronics Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P. O. Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105, ISRAEL Phone: +972-8-646-1561; Fax: +972-8-647-2949; Email: [email protected] Website: www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~pel Central Research & Services Laboratories Fluorescent Systems Laboratory OSRAM SYLVANIA 71 Cherry Hill Dr. Beverly, MA 0...

A study of waste fluorescent lamp generation in mainland China

Fluorescent lamps (FLs) are already widely used, and demand for them can only be expected to increase, because of their energy-saving features. The potential health risk from the toxic mercury they contain, however, is receiving increasing public attention and concern. In this study, future quantities of FL production and consequent waste FL generation in China are predicted using the Extended ...