Electronic circuit and method of supplying energy to a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp

Abstract

The invention relates to an electronic circuit and a method of supplying energy to a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp H, 65, 75. The electronic circuit comprises a line-supply input section 62, 72 to receive and convert an a.c. voltage from an a.c. line-supply system 61, 71, an energy storage means 63, 73 to store the energy put out by the line-supply input section 62, 72 and a lamp-current regulating unit 64, 74 that is supplied with an input voltage U1 by the line-supply input section 62, 72 via the energy storage means 63, 73 and that makes available a lamp current I2 for a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp II, 65, 75. To make it possible for the energy storage means 63, 73 to be particularly small, it is proposed that the lamp-current regulating unit 64, 74 have a power section L, D, C, S, A1, A2, K having a transconductive property. If there is a drop in the input voltage U1, this property then automatically produces a reduction in the lamp current I2 made available to a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp 65, 75, H. This ensures a particularly fast adjustment to voltage fluctuations. The invention also relates to a corresponding method.

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