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- From: boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz)
- Subject: How slow are halogen lamps?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.225605.17036@sics.se>
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:56:05 GMT
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- I have noted that when halogen stage lights go of (500-2000W) there is
- a delay before the light is gone. Is the response to voltage changes slow
- for halogen lights? I was thinking of controlling a TRIAC with a
- microcontroller and one idea is to use patterns of AC half periods that is
- on or off. A 50% setting would be one halfperiod (hp) of and one on.
- A 75% setting would be 3 hp's on and one off. Switching the TRIAC on and
- off at the zero crossing point would eliminate the need for filtering away
- unwanted electro-magnetic interference.
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- The problem is flickering for low settings. A 10% setting will give 9 hp's
- off and one hp on. But if the halogen lamp is slow in response it will
- eventually be no problem. Anyone know?
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- Kent Boortz
- boortz@sics.se
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- Kent Boortz
- boortz@sics.se
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