• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.10
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• pp.1947-1953
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• 2009

Metal halide (MH) lamps have been largely used due to high luminous efficiency, good color rendering, and long life. Since the metal halide lamps have problems of high ignition voltage and acoustic resonance. Thus, the design of ballast is very difficult for engineers. This paper proposes prototype of electric ballast in order to solve above two problems. The proposed electric ballast is consisted of EMI filter, full wave rectifier circuit, active PFC, DBI(Dual Buck Inverter), dimming circuit and ignitor circuit. The DBI supplies both rectangular voltage and current to the lamp. As the result of the experiment, the acoustic resonance was eliminated and the ignitor circuit was designed to generate high ignition voltage than 5kV. It makes the dimming circuit possible to control the lamp power in range between 230W and 350W.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.166-168
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• 2007

A dimmable ballast system for the electrodeless fluorescent lamp is proposed. The proposed scheme is composed of the electronic ballast and the wireless communication part. They both are realized with one EPLD (Erasable Programmable Logic Device). The dimming levels of each lamps can be controlled by a management system through wireless communication technology. 10 ballasts are used for the group lighting system and the experiment results show the system works well.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1001-1002
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 MHL(Metal-Halide Lamp)용 자기식과 전자식 안정기에 의한 조도 제어 특성을 분석하였다. 실험에 사용된 자기식 안정기는 가변 인덕턴스를 이용한 조도 제어 기법을 적용하였으며 전자식 안정기는 스위칭 주파수를 가변하는 조도 제어 기법을 적용하였다. 실험을 통하여 얻은 데이터를 바탕으로 조도 제어시 특성을 비교 및 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1996-1997
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• 2007

본 논문은 기존 250W HID-Lamp용 조도 제어형 자기식 안정기의 기계식 릴레이를 이용한 ZCS(Zero Current Switching) 방법을 제안하였다. 램프의 영 전류를 검출하고, MCU를 이용하여 기계식 릴레이의 스위치 on/off시간을 제어하였다. 이 ZCS방법을 실험을 통하여 타당성을 입증하였다.