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Electronic Ballast Capacitive Input Power Factor

04/03/2013 11:22 AM

Hi, I wonder if it is possible that these ballasts can draw capacitive currents? As far as I know I know that much of these guys input power factor is inductive and wander around 0,9 -,96 interval. Thank you

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Re: Electronic Ballast Capacitive Input Power Factor

04/03/2013 11:46 AM

Have a look at the Wikipedia article on this topic.

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Re: Electronic Ballast Capacitive Input Power Factor

04/03/2013 11:01 PM

This is a very standard question repeated many times. I myself did make a capacitive electronic ballast - using simple copper choke and capacitor etc long ago. It gives capacitive impedance at the input. It causes very peaky current waveforms. Many did recommend that you put a inductive circuit with one tube + a second capacitive circuit tube in the same fixture- to make it net near pure resistive for fixture. We did sell a few capacitive ballasts. Field complaints were capacitive ballasts resulted in heavy sparking while turning on / off, and switch contacts got welded.

So there are many practically unacceptable issues and hence have not become popular- though solution exists.

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Re: Electronic Ballast Capacitive Input Power Factor

04/04/2013 11:06 AM

The color spectrum of LED fixtures is controlled by changing the capacitance in the ballast circuit so I would say "yes".

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