Experimental tests and reliability assessment of electronic ballast system

The necessity of clean energy resources development has increasingly become the focus of attention of the world. An important contribution to this topic could be given by minor waste in the illumination system. This paper presents results obtained by qualification tests implemented on electronic ballasts, with particular attention to on/off, thermal tests and EMC tests. Being the device under test an innovative electronic power supply system designed for application in energy saving, it is fundamental also an evaluation and analysis of the reliability performances. To this aim some results obtained with reliability prediction method are also presented in the paper. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.