Abstract:
A stabilizer with brightness control for a High Intensity discharge lamp comprising a base, an positive electrode terminal configured with a power input of the base, a negative electrode terminal configured with the base on the same side the positive electrode terminal configured, a power-switching terminal configured with the base on the other side the positive electrode terminal configured, a control switch and a control element on a circuit board inside the base, wherein the control switch coupled with the positive electrode terminal, the negative electrode terminal and the power-switching terminal respectively, and a connect pin of the power-switching terminal is corresponding to the control element on a circuit board inside the base so as to adjust brightness for a High Intensity discharge lamp by the control switch.
Abstract:
An illuminated aerial marker for a high voltage transmission line using a spherical colored opaque capacitor with gas filled lamps electrically connected, exterior to the capacitor with one electrode of the lamps connected to the high voltage source and the other to the conductive area of the capacitor or capacitors. The lamps are spaced and sized to provide illumination with nighttime conspicuity of at least 4,000 feet when the lamps are activated.
Abstract:
A magnetic thyratron interrupter is provided having between an anode and a cathode a structure having an aperture therein for a discharge presenting a succession of surfaces in the direction of discharge which are contacted when the discharge is moved by applying a magnetic field transversely to the discharge direction. Examples of structure are stacks of discs having concentric holes which are alternately of larger and smaller diameter and a strip of gauze wound into a spiral.
Abstract:
An electric discharge apparatus, for example a gas laser or discharge lamp, includes first and second electrodes defining a first discharge path and third and fourth electrodes defining a second discharge path alongside the first. A respective impedance is associated with any electrical connection between electrodes. The electrodes are electrically arranged such that either the current flow of a discharge along the first path is so different from the current flow of a discharge along the second path that, overall, the discharges repel one another, or stable electric discharges which coalesce are generated between respective electrodes of the first and second sets.A multi-electrode plasma torch is also provided comprising an electrode holder from which a plurality of electrodes project and a pilot electrode common to more than one of the electrodes.
Abstract:
A method and circuit for improving the crest factor of the gas discharge lamp. The method includes: the signal of the gas discharge lamp can be sampled to get a status signal; whether the present stage of the gas discharge lamp is at warm up stage or constant power stage can be judged based on the result of comparison between the status signal and a preset value; preset parameters can be selected based on the stage of the gas discharge lamp, the first parameter can be selected when the gas discharge lamp is at a warm up stage, and the second parameter can be selected when the gas discharge lamp is at a constant power stage; a control signal can be outputted during the lamp current commutation based on the selected first or second parameter to improve the crest factor of the gas discharge lamp.
Abstract:
A high-pressure discharge lamp lighting device is used for projector devices that allow controlling the mean electric power at a desired value with a slow processing speed. A color wheel rotates and disperses the beam from lamp into each of the color components, such that the electric power supplied to the lamp is controlled at different levels for each segment of the color wheel and the power feeding device control part finds the mean electric power by sampling the electric power supplied.
Abstract:
A discharge lamp lighting device includes a lamp current control portion that generates, in synchronization with an input video signal, a control signal for controlling polarity reversal of an AC current with a steady-state lighting frequency and an AC current with a low frequency, and a lamp driving portion that drives the discharge lamp based on the control signal that is output by the lamp current control portion. The lamp current control portion generates a control signal for a brightness reduction waveform with timing corresponding to polarity reversal of the AC current with the steady-state lighting frequency, and the lamp driving portion inserts a current reduction waveform into the AC current with the low frequency by decreasing a voltage applied to the discharge lamp based on the control signal for the brightness reduction waveform. It is possible to reduce flicker that could be perceived due to insertion of a period without a reduction of the projection light amount (a period without a polarity reversal at the low frequency) during repeated reductions of the projection light amount occurring at intervals of polarity reversal of the steady-state lighting frequency.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a fluorescent lamp dimming circuit includes power factor correction control, dimming control, and switching devices. The power factor correction control may be connected to power factor correction circuitry that produces a regulated DC buss. The dimming control circuit may be connected to the input of the fluorescent lamp dimming circuit for producing a driver signal whose frequency varies depending on the input voltage waveform perhaps as modified by a dimmer. The control circuit may produce a drive signal with a duty cycle profile to drive switching devices. The switching devices invert the DC buss voltage to an AC voltage waveform for driving a resonant tank circuit. The resonant tank circuit may include an inductance, a capacitance, and the impedance of a fluorescent lamp. The AC voltage waveform when applied to the resonant tank circuit may cause the fluorescent lamp to dim based on the dimmer setting.
Abstract:
A line marker including hollow shell halves assembled about an elevated line and luminous tubes mounted on the shell halves illuminated by the electric field extending about the power line and without electrical connection with the power line itself.
Abstract:
In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a discharge lamp lighting device includes a discharge lamp driving section that drives a discharge lamp and a control unit that controls the discharge lamp driving section. The control unit alternately performs a first-interval DC driving process and a first-interval AC driving process in a first interval, alternately performs a second-interval DC driving process and a second-interval AC driving process in a second interval other than the first interval, and changes a length of at least one of a period during which the first-interval DC driving process is performed and a period during which the second-interval DC driving process is performed so as to be shortened in a stepped manner within a predetermined sub-interval.