Title
Improving Crest Factor Of Electronic Ballast-Fed Fluorescent Lamp Current Using Pulse Frequency Modulation
Abstract
In case where electronic ballast employing a valley-fill passive power-factor correction (PFC) circuit is used for feeding fluorescent lamps, a new method to reduce crest factor of the lamp current is studied in this paper. It is known that a 50% valley-fill passive PFC provided for high input power factor results in undesirable value of crest factor of the fluorescent lamp current. In order to reduce crest factor to a lower value, a pulse frequency modulation technique based on the waveform of the dc-link voltage which is predetermined by the passive PFC circuit is taken into the switching control action of the electronic ballast. An equation-based analysis between the crest factor of lamp current and the effect of varying the inverter switching frequency is comprehensively performed. Several simulation and experiment results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/41.954566
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
crest factor, electronic ballast, fluorescent lamps, passive power-factor correction, pulse frequency modulation
Ballast,Control theory,Power factor,Pulse-width modulation,Pulse-frequency modulation,Control engineering,AC power,Fluorescent lamp,Frequency modulation,Engineering,Crest factor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
48
5
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.71
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jooho Song150.71
Joong-Ho Song2101.89
I. Choy3101.89
Ju-Yeop Choi4121.68