| 摘要 |
A power supply circuit (100) for use in driving fluorescent lamps (102, 104, 106) has a current mode control voltage boost IC (144) which produces a boosted voltage and has a power control input (pin 3) and a frequency control input (pin 4). The lamps are driven by a self oscillating inverter (178, 180, 196, 198) which is powered from the voltage boost IC and which operates at a frequency independent therefrom. In order to dim the lamps a D.C. bias voltage is applied to the power control input. At the same time a commensurate D.C. bias voltage is applied to the frequency control input so as to provide power factor correction in dependence on the power produced by the voltage boost IC. The circuit thus provides a substantially constant, optimum power factor at both full and dimmed light levels. |
