The operating characteristics of metal halide lamps are investigated, including acoustic resonance, spectral energy, and luminous efficacy. To operate metal halide lamps at intended conditions, two test sophisticated ballast circuits are built to drive the lamps with sine-wave current and square-wave current, respectively. One ballast employs the series resonant inverter to output sinusoidal lamp current over a high-frequency range from 20 kHz to 300 kHz. The other makes use of the full-bridge inverter to drive the lamps with square-wave current from 50 Hz up to 300 kHz. For both test circuits, the operating frequency and the magnitude of the lamp current can be controlled independently. On the other hand, the lamp power is adjusted by regulating the DC-link power.
Several conclusions are drawn from experimental results: (1) Little difference is found between the lighting spectra of a lamp when driven by sinusoidal current and square-wave current. (2) Luminous efficiency deteriorates as the operating frequency increases. The deterioration is more significant at lower frequencies. (3) Luminous efficiency decreases considerably as the lamp power is reduced. (4) Arc instability from acoustic resonance is highly related to the waveform of the lamp current.
The investigated results give better understanding on the steady state operation of metal halide lamps and provide useful information for the design of the electronic ballasts.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0703104-191800 |
| Date | 03 July 2004 |
| Creators | Tang, Sheng-Yi |
| Contributors | Tsong-Juu Liang, Jiann-Fun Chen, Ching-Ran Lee, Li-Ling Lee, Chin-Sien Moo |
| 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-0703104-191800 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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