Electronic self-ballasted fluorescent lamp (E17 base)

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

Multi-Lamp High-Power-Factor Electronic Ballast Using a Fixed-Frequency Self-Oscillating Driver

This paper presents a fixed-frequency self-oscillating high-power-factor electronic ballast supplying four independent lamps. The fixed-frequency self-oscillating driver is achieved adding a LC series filter supplying a small resistor. The primary winding of the self-oscillating transformer is the series inductor of the filter. So, if one or more lamps are damaged, the switching frequency will ...

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...