A new power-factor-correction circuit for electronic ballasts with series-load resonant inverter

This paper presents an efficient, small-sized and cost-effective power factor correction (PFC) scheme for high-frequency series-resonant electronic ballasts. The proposed scheme introduces additional small energy tanks processing partial power and thus can perform the function of input current shaping. Theoretical and experimental results prove that the electronic ballast incorporating with only few reactive components can achieve nearly unity power factor and very low harmonic distortion.