摘要 |
An electronic ballast-inverter circuit for powering one or more fluorescent lamps or the like includes two identical circuits operating at different DC offsets, each circuit including a tank circuit composed of a primary winding of the power transformer and a capacitor such that each tank circuit resonates at the same frequency, and including a switching transistor connected to each tank circuit. These two transistors are operative on alternate half cycles of the sine wave generated by the inverter, so as to obtain the push-pull operation needed by the inverter. Each circuit includes a base drive current source for each transistor that is controlled by the polarity of an additional primary winding of the power transformer. For improved efficiency, the circuit is designed to be operable from an unsmoothed DC voltage source. |