Electric Dynamic Modeling of HID Lamps for Electronic Ballast Design

This paper describes a nonlinear model of high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps based on electrical variables. The proposal, oriented to the engineering area, has a special application for the design of electronic ballast. Parameters are obtained from straightforward measurement of electrical variables as power, current, and voltage in the lamp. The lamp resistance is obtained as a function of electrical power; which is estimated from the Saha equation. This model, which can be simulated using software such as ¿Simulink¿ or ¿Pspice,¿ takes into account some important dynamic behaviors of HID lamps, which are normally omitted in some other models suggested in literature nowadays. Experimental and simulation results are shown.