• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.526-534
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• 2009

This paper introduces the electronic ballast for high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps which provides power regulation during the whole lamp life without using a closed-loop power control system, in spite of large variations of lamp characteristics resulting from lamp aging. The structure of the electronic ballast and the parameters of HPS lamps are described. A mathematical model for the ballast is developed and used for the design and analysis of the ballast. A design procedure is presented to design the ballast which provides intrinsic power regulation over the whole lamp life. To improve the technical specifications of the ballast, the practical and standard constraints are considered in the design. According to the design procedure, an electronic ballast for 250-W HPS lamps is designed. All theoretical analyses are verified with the help of a semi-industrial experimental setup. The results validate that the designed ballast provides power regulation during the whole lamp life.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.2562-2564
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• 1999

We have development the electronic ballast for metal halide discharge (MHD) lamp. The ballast consists of the boost pre-converter for power factor correction (PFC), a flyback a converter, half-bridge inverter and ignitor. To reject acoustic resonance phenomena, we have designed electronic ballast driving with the low frequency square wave. As results of this study, the ballast had not flicker phenomena and promoted corrected the factor (PF) highly

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.466-469
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• 1998

The electronic fluorescent lamp ballast can promote the lighting efficiency up to 10-20% by driving high frequency with frequency transformation technique, and can completely eliminate the flickering phenomenon occurring from 60Hz frequency. The electronic ballast provides very high energy saving effects for it has high power fact than traditional ballast, and it is convenient to use. can extend the life of fluorescent lamp for it starts at once by driving with high frequency. However electronic ballast needs high price, and it can reduce the stability and reliability. This paper provides illumination systems which drive dozens of fluorescent lamps at the same time, to overcome these shortcomings of electronic ballast and utilize the advantage of electronic ballast.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 Proceedings ICPE 98 1998 International Conference on Power Electronics
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• pp.998-1002
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• 1998

The electronic fluorescent lamp ballast can promote the lighting efficiency up to 10-20% by driving high frequency with frequency transformation technique, and can completely eliminate the flickering phenomenon occurring from 60Hz frequency. The electronic ballast provides very high energy saving effects for it has high power factor than traditional ballast, and it is convenient to use, can extend the life cycle of fluorescent lamp for it starts at once by driving with high frequency. However electronic ballast needs high price, and it has the bad stability and reliability. This paper provides illumination systems, which drive dozens of fluorescent lamps at the same time, to overcome these shortcomings of electronic ballast and utilize the advantage of electronic ballast.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2014

The conventional Three-Stage electronic ballast is stable, but Two-Stage electronic ballast has been researching because of efficiency. Three-Stage electronic ballast is consisted of PFC circuit, buck converter, and inverter circuit, but Two-stage is consisted of PFC circuit, Buck-Inverter full bridge circuit. The Buck-Inverter full bridge inverter consists of two half bridge inverters for low frequency switching, and high frequency switching. In the case of street lamp it is far from a lamp to a ballast, the conventional pulsed high voltage ignitor can not turn on the HID lamps because of reduction of ignition voltage. Therefore, it needs to do the research on a resonant ignition to turn on the HID lamps. Therefore, in the Two-Stage electronic ballast which has the resonant tank for ignition, the transient resonant current because of low frequency changing is analyzed, the novel algorithm is proposed to resuce the transient current.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2001년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.14 No.1
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• pp.589-592
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• 2001

In this paper, Electronic ballast for multiple fluorescent lamps based on the use of ferrite beads are presented. The use of this system in place of the conventional electromagnetic ballast results in lower power consumption and reduced maintenance cost, because the electronic system has higher efficiency and longer lamp lifetime than the electromagnetic ballast. In comparison with the conventional electronic ballast. The proposed system presents a significant reduction of cost. This reduction becomes were meaningful with the growing of the lamp number. The description of the lighting system, We show that the proposed model can be applied to multiple lamps electronic ballast by simulation processes.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2001년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.589-592
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• 2001

In this paper, Electronic ballast for multiple fluorescent lamps based on the use of ferrite beads are presented. The use of this system in place of the conventional electromagnetic ballast results in lower power consumption and reduced maintenance cost, because the electronic system has higher efficiency and longer lamp lifetime than the electromagnetic ballast. In comparison with the conventional electronic ballast. The proposed system presents a significant reduction of cost. This reduction becomes were meaningful with the growing of the lamp number. The description of the lighting system, We show that the proposed model can be applied to multiple lamps electronic ballast by simulation processes.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제11B권3호
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• pp.104-111
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• 2001

The design procedures and experimental results of a single-stage electronic ballast using half-bridge resonant inverter are presented in this paper. The proposed topology is based on a single-stage ballast which combines a boost converter and a half-bradge series resonant inverter. High power factor is achieved by using the boost semi-stage operating in discontinuous conduction mode and inverter semi-stage operated above resonant frequency to provide zero voltage switching is empolyed to ballast the fluorescent lamp Experimental results from the ballast system with 36W fluorescent

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권12호
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• pp.2238-2243
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• 2008

The use of arc tubes made of ceramic material further enhanced some of the metal halide lamp's properties. These properties translate into higher efficacy with better color rendering, stable color through lamp long life. Recently, due to an increase in the application of the ceramic metal-halide lamp, the study for the property etc. according to Ballast's driving scheme and the study for arc tube material, optimization of gas and so on are being proceeded to improve the property of the lamp. Especially, to control ceramic metal-halide lamp, the vigorous study and practical use with respect to Electronic Ballast, which has been improved in the disadvantages of the conventional Magnetic Ballast are made. In this paper, Electrical, optical and thermal characteristics are analyzed by comparing magnetic ballast with electronic ballast.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.8-17
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 위상천이 풀브리지 인버터를 이용한 새로운 LCD CCFL 백라이트 전자식 안정기를 제안한다. 제안한 전자식 안정기는 소프트스타팅이 적용된 새로운 형태의 디지털 디밍제어를 이용하여 CCFL의 점화전압을 감소시키고 전류스파이크를 제거함으로써, CCFL의 점화 특성을 향상 시키며 나아가 CCFL의 수명을 연장시킨다. 이를 위하여 본 논문은 제안한 전자식 안정기의 풀브리지 인버터 토폴로지를 간략하게 분석하고 여기에 적용된 새로운 디지털 디밍제어 알고리즘을 간단하게 설명한다. 그리고 본 논문은 프로토타입 회로의 설계예를 보이고 단일칩 마이크로컨트롤러 상에 소프트웨어적으로 구현되는 디지털 디밍제어의 구현 방식을 설명한다. 이것은 실제 프로토타입 전자식 안정기로 구현되었으며, 그 실험 결과를 통하여 제안한 전자식 안정기가 정확하게 동작함을 보였다. 제안한 전자식 안정기 프로토타입의 디지털 디밍제어 동작 시의 점화전압은 기존의 전자식 안정기와 비교하여 약 30[%] 정도 감소되었으며 어떠한 전류스파이크도 나타나지 않았다.