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Robust Design of Electronic Ballasts for Fluorescent Lamps

A robust design utilizing consecutive orthogonal arrays algorithm is proposed for designing electronic ballasts of fluorescent lamps. By this design method, the variation in the lamp power can be less than 10% under different operating conditions. In the manipulation of the consecutive orthogonal arrays, component values of the ballast circuit and DC-link voltage are used as controllable variables for inner orthogonal arrays; while manufacturers, ambient temperature, used hours, and variation in DC-link voltage are treated as uncontrollable variables for outer orthogonal arrays. The average effects of the output power for each controllable variable are calculated from simulation results, which are served as indexes to find the combination of circuit parameters with a better solution. With consecutive orthogonal arrays, the target values of the circuit parameters are approached step by step. In addition, the effect of the DC-link voltage on the lamp power can be understood from the uncontrollable variable of outer orthogonal arrays. The proposed design tool is implemented on the design of an electronic ballast for a 40W fluorescent lamp. The test results show that the designed electronic ballast can be adopted for the lamps from different manufacturers, with different used hours, and under variation in a wide range of ambient temperature.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0606101-211833
Date06 June 2001
CreatorsCheng, Hung-Wei
ContributorsJsong-Jun Liang, Chin-Sien Moo, Chih-Chiang Hua, Yeow-Ming Chen, Yu-Jen Lin
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0606101-211833
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