Title :
The characteristics of fluorescent lamps under problematic utility voltage
Author :
Fu, Che-Ying ; Chen, Ying-Tong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nan-Tai Junior Coll. of Ind. & Commercial Manage., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
Different types of fluorescent lamps (FL) play an important role in lighting, since they can provide significant energy saving and last longer than incandescent lamps. However, although the voltage waveform of an electrical power source is considered to be purely sinusoidal at the stage of the circuit design, there appear to be ever-increasing system voltage problems of amplitude variation and harmonic distortion, it is therefore important to realize the effects on the performances of FL under problematic utility voltage. In this paper, tests were conducted on a developed harmonic generating system to realize the electrical and illumination characteristics of two popular types of FL. The interested characteristics includes active power, power factor, total current harmonic distortion and system efficiency. The tested results relevant to the effect of voltage variation and harmonic distortion upon FL were proposed and discussed
Keywords :
fluorescent lamps; harmonic distortion; power factor; power supplies to apparatus; testing; active power; amplitude variation; electrical characteristics; energy saving; fluorescent lamps; harmonic distortion; harmonic generating system; illumination characteristics; lighting; power factor; problematic utility voltage; system efficiency; total current harmonic distortion; voltage variation; voltage waveform; Character generation; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Fluorescent lamps; Harmonic distortion; Lighting; Power generation; Power system harmonics; System testing; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Management and Power Delivery, 1995. Proceedings of EMPD '95., 1995 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2981-3
DOI :
10.1109/EMPD.1995.500715
