Type testing of a highly accurate illuminance flickermeter

Author

Azcarate, I. ; Gutierrez, J.J. ; Lazkano, A. ; Leturiondo, L.A. ; Saiz, P. ; Redondo, K. ; Barros, J.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Telecommun. Dept., Univ. of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 June 2012

Firstpage

897

Lastpage

903

Abstract

The standard IEC 61000-4-15 establishes the design specifications to measure the annoyance produced by flicker. This instrument is based on the working principles and the response to input voltage variations of an incandescent lamp, which was taken as the reference lamp for the design. However, nowadays new lighting technologies are being adopted worldwide and the incandescent lamp has fallen into disuse. With the purpose of characterizing the sensitivity to voltage fluctuations of new modern lamps an adapted flickermeter has been designed. This tool uses as input the illuminance signals registered from the different lighting technologies. This paper describes the implementation of an illuminance flickermeter as well as its functional verification according to the type tests described in the new edition of the IEC 61000-4-15 standard.

Keywords

IEC standards; filament lamps; fluctuations; power supply quality; voltage measurement; design specifications; flicker measurement; functional verification; highly accurate illuminance flickermeter; illuminance signal registration; incandescent lamp; input voltage variations; lighting technologies; reference lamp; standard IEC 61000-4-15; type testing; voltage fluctuations; Fluctuations; Voltage fluctuations; Flicker; Flickermeter; IEC 61000-4-15; Power quality; voltage fluctuation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP), 2012 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1540-6008

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1944-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICHQP.2012.6381243

Filename

6381243