This study investigates the starting characteristics of metal halide lamps. A laboratory electronic ballast was built to drive metal halide lamps with a programmable low-frequency square-wave current. The lamp current at each stage of the starting transient can be independently adjusted. Experiments were conducted on 150-W metal halide lamps. By examining the waveforms of transient voltage, current and power, the starting period can be classified into four stages, breakdown, glow discharging, glow-to-arc transition, and thermal equilibrium. In addition, the stable operation is defined by observing the variations of the lamp arc, lighting spectrum and luminous output.
Based on the investigation results, four starting scenarios are presented and examined to learn the different acceleration schemes. Experimental evidence shows that the starting time of a metal halide lamp can be effectively shortened by increasing the lamp current during the start-up transition. More importantly, a specifically-regulated operating power enables the lamp to further enhance the luminance producing, and hence to greatly reduce the starting transient period.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0704106-151500 |
| Date | 04 July 2006 |
| Creators | Chen, Jia-Hong |
| Contributors | Chih-Chiang Hua, Li-Ling Lee, Chin-Sien Moo, Tsai-Rong Chen, Tsai-Fu Lin |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0704106-151500 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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