Analysis and design of electronic igniter for HID lamps

A novel electronic igniter for HID lamps has been investigated in this paper. The new designed appliance has many good performances such as substantially less volume and weight compared with the traditional magnetic igniter. The main contributions are as follows: The proposed theory and approaches have been verified by the results of the experiments and computer simulation. The experimental results show that the volume and weight of the prototype has reduced by at least 80% than of the magnetic igniter.