Adapting the design for a 2 x 36 W T8 electronic ballast

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Adapting the design for a 2 x 36 W T8 electronic

ballast

The design developed for 2 x 58 W T8 tubes can be adapted to fit 2 x 36 W T8 tubes. Using

the same resonant circuit, minor adjustments need to be made to the operating frequencies

of the lamp.

Equation 18

By means of Equation 1, 2 and 3, the following components can be calculated.

Equation 19

kHz

49

f

kHz

65

f

Ω

=

k

27

Ω

=

k

77

nF

)

47

220

(

267

+

=