Currently-using low-pressure discharge lamps are usually drived by the AC power supply. There are good and bad points according to high or low frequency in AC power driving type. For the low-pressure lamps, its efficiency increases and flicker decre...
Currently-using low-pressure discharge lamps are usually drived by the AC power supply. There are good and bad points according to high or low frequency in AC power driving type. For the low-pressure lamps, its efficiency increases and flicker decreases when it ignites at high frequency. So we already use the high-frequency electronic ballast of the low-pressure discharge lamps broadly. But there are EMI interference in high-frequency driving type because of giving the fluorescent lamp the high-frequency current. So recently, we have a tendency to compensate for that defects by DC driving method.
As follows, we suggest pseudo DC discharging electronic ballasts for fluorescent lamps which have the characteristics of high efficiency and no flicker by driving constant current boosted square wave.