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Self-oscillating electronic ballast design based on the point of view of control system
R.K. Pavao,Fábio Ecke Bisogno,Álysson Raniere Seidel,R.N. do Prado +3 more
- Vol. 1, pp 211-217
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In this article, the authors present a design methodology, analysis, and practical considerations of self-oscillating drive circuit for electronic ballasts by considering the selfoscillated electronic ballast as a relay control system.Abstract:
This paper presents a design methodology, analysis, and practical considerations of self-oscillating drive circuit for electronic ballasts by considering the self-oscillating electronic ballast as a relay control system The first section of the paper analyzes the design of resonant elements, the nonlinearity present in the circuit and consideration to apply the methodology proposed The second section of the paper shows the design of self-oscillating electronic ballast using control tools such as: describing function, extended Nyquist criterion and block diagrams that allows an expression for designing the self-oscillating electronic ballast to be foundread more
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Novel Single-Stage Self-Oscillating Dimmable Electronic Ballast With High Power Factor Correction
Jen-Cheng Hsieh,J Lin +1 more
TL;DR: A novel self-oscillating electronic ballast with dimming capability and high power factor correction (PFC) is proposed in this paper, which integrates a buck-boost PFC stage with a half-bridge LCC series-parallel resonant inverter.
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Self-oscillating dimmable electronic ballast
TL;DR: A simple modification in one of the gate drivers side circuit allows the lamp to dim without compromising the simplicity, reliability, and low cost which characterize the self-oscillating electronic ballast (SOEB).
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A Design Methodology for a Self-Oscillating Electronic Ballast
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a design methodology and analysis of electronic ballast employing the self-oscillating command circuit, which is represented as a relay control system in order to determine its parameters using the describing function method and an extended Nyquist stability criterion.
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Resonant filter applications in electronic ballast
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the resonant filter used in an electronic ballast through the phase angle from the input resonant filters current to the input filters voltage is presented, which allows a choice of the best filter to employ in a fluorescent lamp.
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Feedforward Regulation Method for Self-Oscillating Electronic Ballast for Fluorescent Lamps
J. P. de Lopes,M. F. da Silva,Marco A. Costa,Fábio Ecke Bisogno,Ricardo N. do Prado,Álysson Raniere Seidel +5 more
TL;DR: Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solution that allows regulating the lamp power in a wide input voltage range (110 to 220 Vrms ) with an error of up to 12%.
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