A novel average burst-duty control method for the dimming of induction lamps

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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