Hi guys, I'm making this solar powered project for my company. We need to be able to run those 40W fluorescent tubes on battery power. So i'm thinking of a direct driver to drive those tubes.
I looked all over the net for designs and basically there are the very simple one floating around on the 555 timer driving a transistor and transformer and the transistor driving a transformer with feedback coils. there is also circuits that incorporate filament heater and others
The main goal of the project is high efficiency and get the most out of the battery life, what design should I follow in order to achieve them?
I looked all over the net for designs and basically there are the very simple one floating around on the 555 timer driving a transistor and transformer and the transistor driving a transformer with feedback coils. there is also circuits that incorporate filament heater and others
The main goal of the project is high efficiency and get the most out of the battery life, what design should I follow in order to achieve them?