Several power factor correction(PFC) circuits are presented to achieve high PF electronic ballast for hath voltage-fed and current-fed electronic ballast. The proposed PFC circuits use valley-fill(VF) type DC-link stages modified from the conventional...
Several power factor correction(PFC) circuits are presented to achieve high PF electronic ballast for hath voltage-fed and current-fed electronic ballast. The proposed PFC circuits use valley-fill(VF) type DC-link stages modified from the conventional VF circuit to adopt the charge pumping method for PFC operations during the valley intervals. In voltage-fed ballast, charge pump capacitors are connected with the resonant capacitors. In current-fed type, the charge pump capacitors are connected with the additional secondary-side of the power transformer. The measured PF and THD are higher than 0.99 and 15% for all proposed PFC circuits The lamp current CF is also acceptable In the proposed circuits. The proposed circuit is suitable for implementing cost-effective electronic ballast.