Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems – Pulsating or a.c. supply – With power factor control device
Patent
1995-03-13
1996-05-14
Pascal, Robert J.
Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
Pulsating or a.c. supply
With power factor control device
315272, 315271, 363 37, 363132, H05B 4116
Patent
active
055170862
ABSTRACT:
A modified valley fill circuit, including a main ballasting inductor for supplying an electrolytic capacitor, has an additional charging winding on the main ballasting inductor for charging the electrolytic capacitor to a predetermined voltage which maximizes the power factor of the input current by optimizing the conduction angle of the input current. In a discharge lamp ballast, the modified valley fill circuit reduces the lamp current crest factor by controlling the frequency with a lamp current control loop.
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El-Hamamsy Sayed-Amr
Kheraluwala Mustansir H.
Breedlove Jill M.
General Electric Company
Pascal Robert J.
Philogene Haissa
Snyder Marvin
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