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Reliability Aspects of Electronic Ballast for Fluorescent Lamps
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Áè V. |
| Abstract |
This paper deals with the reliability problem of the electronic ballasts used in lighting systems with fluorescent lamps. The reliability of electronic ballasts has been questioned since their introduction over ten years ago. By long term usage, it is documented the ballasts failure rate less than 1% during five years of operation in point of their electronic elements reliability. The ballasts reliability consists in a reliability of electronic elements and in fatal influences of an implementation surrounding. The possibility to improve the electronic ballasts reliability depends mainly on reduction of a power supply disturbance frequency and on increase of a fluorescent tubes lifetime. In this paper, the presented results follow from long time analysis of reliability aspects and failure mechanisms of the electronic ballasts under the various application conditions. The results give hints towards improving the quality of new designed ballasts. |
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| Filename: | EPE-PEMC2000 - 238 - Ae.pdf |
| Filesize: | 289.8 KB |
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Last modified 2004-04-28 by System |
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