Circuit for driving at least one gas discharge lamp

Details Circuit for driving at least one gas discharge lamp Circuit for driving at least one gas discharge lamp

1991-05-28

1992-09-01

Pascal, Robert J.

Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems

With cathode or cathode heater supply circuit

315102, 315103, 315219, 315307, 315DIG7, H05B 3700

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051441950

ABSTRACT:
A driving circuit for one or more gas discharge lamps (102, 104, 106) having heatable filaments (102A&B, 104A&B, 106A&B) includes: a self-oscillating, series-resonant oscillator (196, 198, 178, 180) for producing a high-frequency output voltage for application to the lamps via an output-coupling transformer (212); a resistive-capacitive divider (190, 192) for starting-up the oscillator after a first delay; a voltage boost IC (144) for causing the oscillator to produce a boosted output voltage when the voltage boost IC is activated and an unboosted output voltage when the voltage boost IC is unactivated; and a resistive-capacitive divider (170, 172) for starting-up the voltage boost IC after a second delay. The second delay is chosen to be substantially longer than the first delay, and the unboosted output voltage is arranged to be sufficient to heat the filament windings but insufficient to initiate striking in the lamp(s), and the boosted output voltage is arranged to be sufficient to initiate striking in the lamps, whereby the filaments are pre-heated prior to striking in the period between the first and second delays.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4477748 (1984-10-01), Grubbs
patent: 5010279 (1991-04-01), Lathom et al.

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