Cold starting of fluorescent lamps – part I: a description of the transient regime

Reinhard Langer; Richard Garner; Irina Paul; Siegfried Horn; Reinhard Tidecks

doi:10.1051/epjap/2016160277

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Volume 76 / No 1 (October 2016)

Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys., 76 1 (2016) 10802

Abstract

Issue		Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. Volume 76, Number 1, October 2016


Article Number		10802
Number of page(s)		12
Section		Plasma, Discharges and Processes
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2016160277
Published online		10 October 2016

Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. (2016) 76: 10802
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2016160277

Regular Article

Cold starting of fluorescent lamps – part I: a description of the transient regime

Reinhard Langer¹^,2^a^,b, Richard Garner³, Irina Paul¹^,2^,c, Siegfried Horn¹ and Reinhard Tidecks¹

¹ Institut für Physik, Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik II, Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstraße 1, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
² LEDVANCE GmbH (former part of OSRAM AG), Berliner Allee 65, 86136 Augsburg, Germany
³ Central Research & Services Laboratory, OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc., 71 Cherry Hill Dr., Beverly, MA 01915, USA

^a e-mail: Reinhard.Langer@physik.uni-augsburg.de

Received: 14 July 2016
Revised: 3 September 2016
Accepted: 5 September 2016
Published online: 10 October 2016

Abstract

In this paper we give a proposal for the transient behaviour of a cold-started fluorescent lamp, from the generation of the first conductive channel over the normal and abnormal glow discharge and the glow-to-arc (GTA) transition to the arc discharge in the steady state. Starting from the equilibrium voltage-current characteristics of the lamp and considering recent experimental results a qualitative description of the transient regime is developed, which was so far not available in the literature.

^b

Present address: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, Zweibrückenstraße 12, D-80331 München, Germany. This article represents the author’s personal opinion and not that of the the German Patent and Trademark Office.

^c

Present address: PLASUS GmbH, Lechstraße 9, D-86415 Mering, Germany.

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