Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems – With cathode or cathode heater supply circuit – Delayed application of the discharge potential
Patent
1996-05-14
1997-04-22
Pascal, Robert
Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
With cathode or cathode heater supply circuit
Delayed application of the discharge potential
315106, 315107, 315225, H05B 3700
Patent
active
056231849
ABSTRACT:
A ballast arrangement is disclosed for use in powering fluorescent and other gas discharge lamps. The ballast arrangement controls the arc voltage provide by an arc voltage oscillator independent of the filament voltage provided by a filament voltage oscillator. In this manner, safe maintenance condition during fault and interrupt condition are obtained. The full arc voltage is only applied to the lamp when the lamp filaments are warm or after a time period during which they are warmed. The filament pre-warming time reduces sputtering when an excitation or arc voltage in subsequently applied to induce lamp arcing.
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Gulton Industries Inc.
Pascal Robert
Shingleton Michael
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