A New Dimming Algorithm for the Electrodeless Fluorescent Lamps

Jae-Eul YEON
Kyu-Min CHO
Hee-Jun KIM
Won-Sup CHUNG

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.6    pp.1540-1546
Publication Date: 2006/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.6.1540
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Papers Selected from 2005 International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC2005))
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Keyword: 
dimming algorithm,  electronic ballast,  electrodeless fluorescent lamp,  resonant inverter,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, a new dimming algorithm for the electronic ballast of an electrodeless fluorescent lamp is proposed. The proposed method is based on the burst dimming method that controls the duty ratio for the two switches of the electronic ballast by intermittently modulated pulse signal. This paper presents a fully digital circuit using an erasable programmable logic device (EPLD). To verify the validity of the proposed method, the implemented control circuit was applied to the electronic ballast for a 100 W electrodeless fluorescent lamp. As a result, a dimming method with a wide illumination range from 5 to 100% was obtained.

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