High pressure discharge lamp control method
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMohamed Rahmane, Eric Croquesel, Svetlana Selezneva
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Abstract
A system for providing a controllable current to a high intensity discharge lamp is provided. The system includes a current controller that is configured to receive input power and to provide an output current waveform to the high intensity discharge lamp. This current causes a discharge of light from the lamp. The output current waveform includes an absolute value amplitude in each half cycle that is generally constant during a first portion and that which increases non-linearly from the generally constant amplitude to a peak amplitude during a second portion.
Claims6
A method for supplying a controllable current to a high intensity discharge lamp, comprising:
- providing the controllable current to the high intensity discharge lamp, wherein the controllable current includes current waveform including an absolute value amplitude in each half cycle thereof that is generally constant during a first portion thereof and that increases non-linearly from the generally constant amplitude to a peak amplitude during a second portion thereof.
A method for reducing changes in morphology of at least one electrode disposed within a high intensity discharge lamp, comprising:
- sensing a voltage between a pair of electrodes of the high intensity discharge lamp;
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- supplying a controllable current that defines a current waveform including an absolute value amplitude in each half cycle thereof that is generally constant at a non-zero value during a first portion thereof and that increases non-linearly from the generally constant amplitude to a peak amplitude during a second portion thereof to the high intensity discharge lamp to increase temperature at tip of the at least one electrode based upon the sensed voltage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.