A study of electronic ballast for electrodeless fluorescent lamps with dimming capabilities

Author

Kido, Hiroshi ; Makimura, Shinji ; Masumoto, Shingo

Author_Institution

Matsushita Electr. Works Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

889

Abstract

The electrodeless fluorescent lamp has the features of extremely long life and rapid power switching response without the delay associated with electrode warm-up and cooling since they do not have electrodes. The authors aimed at the feature of the quick response, and then adopted intermittent operation, which means that ON/OFF of the lamp is repeated rapidly, in order to dim the lamp operated at 13.56 MHz. The dimming ballast was developed and was able to dim the lamp by 5% smoothly.

Keywords

field effect transistor switches; fluorescent lamps; lamp accessories; lighting control; power MOSFET; power amplifiers; power semiconductor switches; switching circuits; 13.56 MHz; dimming ballast; dimming capabilities; electrodeless fluorescent lamps; electronic ballast; intermittent operation; lamp ON/OFF; quick response; rapid power switching response; Electrodeless lamps; Electrodes; Electronic ballasts; Fault location; Fluorescent lamps; High intensity discharge lamps; Light sources; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 2001. Thirty-Sixth IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL, USA

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7114-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.2001.955557

Filename

955557