Another important ballast feature is the controllability, which is the ballast capability for sending and receiving information through some reliable network communication protocol, allowing a remote control of a complete lighting environment.Ĭurrently, there are available electronic ballasts designs meeting the mentioned features. Nowadays, the electronic ballast design goal has been extended to achieve more efficient systems including design issues like: low harmonic distortion, high power factor and light dimming, reducing in this way electric energy consumption. In early proposals the ballast design goal was focused to provide just enough light for visual tasks on specific areas. The use of electronic ballasts to drive fluorescent lamps has been increased mainly due to the advantages they offer compared with electromagnetic ballasts. Tales áreas de aplicación cubren sistemas de mantenimiento de lámparas en edificios, efectos luminosos de precisión e iluminación de estudios.ĭescriptores: balastros electrónicos, control de iluminación, interfaces de redes, estándares de comunicación, CAN, aplicación de microcontroladores. Las aplicaciones para esta red de iluminación CAN incluyen sistemas de iluminación enfocados al control de intensidad luminosa para ahorro en el consumo de energía eléctrica y mantenimiento eficiente de lámparas. De acuerdo con los resultados obtenidos el balastro electrónico propuesto realiza exitosamente las funciones establecidas, cumpliendo con el estándar internacional clase C de International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), lo cual permite la implementación de una red de iluminación CAN novedosa completamente funcional con control remoto confiable. El control de la red se realiza con un programa en una computadora personal (PC) a través de un nodo CAN específico, con el cual es posible controlar individualmente hasta un máximo de 2047 balastros. Se incluyeron funciones de variación de intensidad luminosa, apagado, encendido y detección de condición de fallo. El balastro propuesto opera con una lámpara fluorescente del tipo T5, 28 Watts, el cual se implementó en una red de iluminación basada en la especificación CAN 2.0A. Keywords: electronic ballast, lighting control, network interfaces, communication standards, CAN, microcontroller application.Įste artículo describe el diseño e implementación de un nuevo balastro electrónico digital con variación de intensidad luminosa controlado digitalmente a distancia, mediante una novedosa red de iluminación basada en el estándar Bus CAN (Controller Area Network). Such application areas cover building lighting management, precision lighting effects, and studio lighting. Applications for this CAN Bus lighting network include lighting systems focused on design issues like lamp dimming control for electrical energy consumption savings and efficient lamp maintenance. The resulting system consists of a novel fully functional CAN bus lighting network with a reliable two wire remote control. According to the obtained results the proposed digital dimming electronic ballast performed the established functions successfully, meeting C class of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard. The network control is made with a lighting system software in a personal computer (PC) through one specific CAN node, being able to address up to 2047 individually controllable ballasts. The defined lighting network functions include dimming, turning on and off, and fault condition detection. The proposed functional performance was tested using an implemented lighting network system based on CAN 2.0A bus specification. The proposed ballast was designed to drive a T5, 28 Watts fluorescent lamp. This paper describes the design and implementation of a new digital dimming electronic ballast with the capability of being remotely controlled in a digital way, this is achieved through a novel lighting network based on Controller Area Network (CAN) bus standard. Reevaluado: junio de 2009 y enero de 2010. Emails: del artículo: Recibido: septiembre de 2007. Emails: Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, Morelia Mich. Emails: Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, Celaya Gto. 5ġ Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, Celaya Gto. Digitally Addressable Digital Dimming Electronic Ballast Based on CAN Busīalastro electrónico digital con control de intensidad luminosa direccionado digitalmente basado en bus CAN
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