A novel self-oscillating electronic ballast with dimming capability and high power factor
correction (PFC) is proposed in this paper. The single-stage electronic ballast integrates a …

Power-electronics interface and the technique of pulsewidth modulation have been the heart
of controlling the illumination intensity of lighting devices. It is, however, observed that for …

This paper presents a design methodology and analysis of electronic ballast employing the
self-oscillating-command circuit. The self-oscillating electronic ballast is represented as a …

The shunt regulator is a key part of the power conditioning unit, which is becoming more and
more important in the spacecrafts. Due to the nonlinear link, the switch operating with …

This paper presents a smart system, including a multi channel dimmer and a central process
unit (CPU) together with an exact multi channel feedback mechanism, which automatically …

This paper presents a low-cost solution of converting the popularly adopted nondimmable
electronic ballast circuit for fluorescent lamps with self-oscillating series resonant inverter …

This paper presents a feedforward fluorescent lamp power regulation method for self-
oscillating electronic ballast for different line voltages. The proposed method consists in …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the performance characteristics among
different dimming methods for electronic ballasts using the self-oscillating half-bridge (HB) …

This paper presents a single-stage electronic ballast for driving multiple fluorescent lamps in
which a dimming control scheme is proposed to regulate the lamp current. A laboratory …

Esta dissertação descreve o projeto de um sistema de iluminação baseado em fontes
luminosas semicondutoras, para aplicação em interiores de ônibus. O sistema é composto …