This paper presents a driver for a HID lamp based on the application of a high frequency current square waveform through the lamp with the goal of avoiding acoustic resonances. The proposed ballast is fed from a 12-V dc input voltage and is intended to be used in systems supplied from nonconventional sources, such as back-up batteries, photovoltaic generators and automotive applications. In order to initiate the discharge in the lamp, a specially-designed igniter supplied from the 12-V dc voltage is used to apply high voltage ignition peaks to the lamp. Experimental results obtained from a laboratory prototype for a 70-W Metal Halide lamp supplied at 30 kHz are also shown to evaluate the possibilities of the proposed topology.
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