Nonpermanent excitation of piezoelectric transformers

The work describes and investigates nonpermanent (pulsed) excitation of piezoelectric transformers (PT). Background of the investigations was the requirement of a higher peak power for a PT. Driven nonpermanently, a FT can be overloaded up to a certain level. Some technical applications require a high power for a finite time, transferred by a relatively small transformer. An example is the ignition of gas discharge lamps as one task for electronic ballast systems. Some of these lamps have a very high ignition voltage, so that the use of a separate piezoelectric transformer for ignition may be useful.

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