CA2577416A1 - Improved apparatus and method for control of high intensity discharge lighting - Google Patents

Improved apparatus and method for control of high intensity discharge lighting Download PDF

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CA2577416A1
CA2577416A1 CA 2577416 CA2577416A CA2577416A1 CA 2577416 A1 CA2577416 A1 CA 2577416A1 CA 2577416 CA2577416 CA 2577416 CA 2577416 A CA2577416 A CA 2577416A CA 2577416 A1 CA2577416 A1 CA 2577416A1
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Robin Charles Benas
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01FMAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F29/00Variable transformers or inductances not covered by group H01F21/00
    • H01F29/02Variable transformers or inductances not covered by group H01F21/00 with tappings on coil or winding; with provision for rearrangement or interconnection of windings
    • H01F29/04Variable transformers or inductances not covered by group H01F21/00 with tappings on coil or winding; with provision for rearrangement or interconnection of windings having provision for tap-changing without interrupting the load current
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05BELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B41/00Circuit arrangements or apparatus for igniting or operating discharge lamps
    • H05B41/14Circuit arrangements
    • H05B41/36Controlling
    • H05B41/38Controlling the intensity of light
    • H05B41/382Controlling the intensity of light during the transitional start-up phase
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05BELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B41/00Circuit arrangements or apparatus for igniting or operating discharge lamps
    • H05B41/14Circuit arrangements
    • H05B41/36Controlling
    • H05B41/38Controlling the intensity of light
    • H05B41/40Controlling the intensity of light discontinuously
    • H05B41/42Controlling the intensity of light discontinuously in two steps only
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01FMAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F30/00Fixed transformers not covered by group H01F19/00
    • H01F30/02Auto-transformers
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02BCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
    • Y02B20/00Energy efficient lighting technologies, e.g. halogen lamps or gas discharge lamps

Abstract

An improved apparatus and method for control of discharge lighting, such as HID (high intensity discharge) lighting, effects full-voltage start up of the lighting, and sustained operation of the lighting at a reduced voltage after a selected and variable start-up phase or interval. The apparatus includes an auto transformer (28 and 30) having a primary winding and a secondary winding.
The primary winding is always in series with the load, but may be shorted to connect full line voltage from the line to the load. When the primary winding is not shorted, the secondary winding is connected to the load also, so that reduced voltage is provided to the load. A thermal analog device (36) simulates the warm up time constant of the HID lighting unit, so that the reduction in operating voltage to the HID lighting unit is effected only after this lighting unit has achieved a sufficiently high temperature to sustain operation at a reduced operating voltage.

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1. A control apparatus for starting a load device at full AC line voltage, and for sustained operation of said load device at a reduced operating voltage with no loss of continuity between the line and load during voltage reduction, said control apparatus being characterized by an autotransformer having a primary winding including first and second ends, and a secondary winding having respective first and second ends; said primary winding being connected at its first end to one side of said AC line and at its second end being connected to one side of said load device; a SPDT switch having a first switch contact connecting to said first end of said primary winding, and a common contact connecting to said load device so that when said first switch contact and said common contact are connected, said primary winding is shorted and said load device receives full line voltage;
said SPDT switch including a second switch contact connecting to a first end of said secondary winding, and a second end of said secondary winding connecting to the other side of said AC line and to the other side of said load device, so that when said second switch contact and said common contact are connected said primary and secondary windings are in series across said AC line and said load device receives reduced voltage.
2. The control apparatus of Claim 1 further including an interval device for causing said SPDT switch to change from connection of said common contact with said first switch contact and to connection of said common contact to said second switch contact upon passage of a time interval after application of line voltage to said control apparatus and load.
3. The control apparatus of Claim 2 wherein said interval device includes a thermal analog of said load device.
4. The control apparatus of Claim 3 wherein said interval device effects a variable time interval between application of line voltage to said control apparatus and load and reduction of the voltage applied to said load dependent upon ambient temperature.
5. The control apparatus of Claim 3 wherein said interval device includes a count down timer.
6. The control apparatus of Claim 5 wherein said interval device effects a determined time interval between application of line voltage to said control apparatus and load and reduction of the voltage applied to said load dependent upon a value of said count down timer.
7. The control apparatus of Claim 1 wherein said load device includes a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp.
8. The control apparatus of Claim 1 further including a second autotransformer also having a primary winding including first and second ends, said second autotransformer also having a secondary winding having respective first and second ends; said primary winding being connected at its first end to one side of said AC line and at its second end being connected to one side of a second load device;
a second SPDT switch having a first switch contact connecting to said first end of said primary winding of said second autotransformer, and a common contact connecting to said second load device so that when said first switch contact and said common contact are connected, said primary winding of said second autotransformer is shorted and said second load device receives full line voltage;
said second SPDT switch including a second switch contact connecting to a first end of said secondary winding of said second autotransformer, and a second end of said secondary winding connecting to the other side of said AC line and to the other side of said second load device, so that when said second switch contact and said common contact of said second SPDT switch are connected said primary and secondary windings are in series across said AC line and said second load device receives reduced voltage.
9. The control device of Claim 8 wherein said device includes a case receiving said autotransformer, said second autotransformer, said SPDT switch, and said second SPDT
switch; said autotransformers being arrayed within said case in spaced apart relation, and said SPDT switches similarly being arrayed within said case in spaced apart relation along an orthogonal line to define a recess among said autotransfonners transformers and SPDT
switches; and disposed in said recess is a thermal analog device which substantially replicates a warm up time constant of said load device and of said second load device.
10. The control device of Claim 9 further including a mass of thermal insulation received into said recess, and a protective cover member spanning said recess.
11. A method of effecting start up of an HTD lamp at full line voltage, and of reducing the operating voltage of the HID lamp for sustained operation at reduced energy consumption with no interruption of continuity between the line and the HID
lamp, said method being characterized by steps of: providing an autotransformer having a primary winding including first and second ends, and a secondary winding having respective first and second ends; connecting said primary winding at its first end to one side of said line, and connecting said primary winding at its second end in series with said HID
lighting unit;
providing a SPDT switch having a first switch contact, and connecting said first switch contact to said first end of said primary winding, and connecting the common contact of said SPDT switch to said HID lighting unit so that when said first switch contact and said common contact are connected said primary winding is shorted and said HID
lighting unit receives full line voltage; and connecting a second switch contact of said SPDT switch to a first end of said secondary winding, and a second end of said secondary winding connecting to the other side of said line and to the other side of said HID lamp, so that when said second switch contact and said common contact are connected, said primary and secondary windings are in series across said line and said HID lighting unit receives reduced voltage.
12. The method of Claim 11 further including the steps of providing a thermal analog device, and applying power simultaneously to said HID lamp and to said thermal analog device so that said thermal analog device warms up from ambient temperature in approximate analogy to the warming of said HID lamp from ambient temperature, and employing a temperature level of said thermal analog device to effect switching of said SPDT
switch to reduce operating voltage applied to said HID lamp, so that when operating voltage to said HID lamp is reduced it will have achieved a sufficiently high temperature above ambient to sustain discharge operation at reduced operating voltage.
13. The method of Claim 11 further including the steps of providing a count down timer which counts down a determined time interval upon power being applied to said timer and then effects switching of said SPDT switch to reduce operating voltage provided to said HID lamp, and applying power simultaneously to said HID lamp and to said count down timer so that when said count down timer reaches the end of said determined time interval and effects switching of said SPDT switch to reduce operating voltage applied to said HID
lamp said HID lamp will have achieved a sufficiently high temperature above ambient to sustain discharge operation at reduced operating voltage.
14 14. A plug-in modular control unit for a high intensity discharge (HID) street lamp, said control unit being characterized by: an autotransformer having a primary winding including first and second ends, and a secondary winding having respective first and second ends; the primary winding being connected at its first end to a source of AC
power, and at its second end with one side of the HID street lamp; a SPDT switch having a first switch contact connecting to said first end of said primary winding, and a common contact connecting to the one side of the HID street lamp so that when said first switch contact and said common contact are connected, said primary winding is shorted and said HID street lamp receives full line voltage; said SPDT switch including a second switch contact connecting to a first end of said secondary winding, and a second end of said secondary winding connecting to said source of AC power and to the other side of said HID street lamp, so that when said second switch contact and said common contact are connected, said primary and secondary windings are in series across said source of AC power and said HID street lamp receives reduced voltage without interruption of current flow to the HID street lamp.
15. The plug-in modular control unit of Claim 14 further including an elongate housing presenting a male plug at one end and a complementary female receptacle at an opposite end, said male plug being configured to insert into a light sensor receptacle of said street lamp, and said complementary receptacle receiving a light sensor for control of said street lamp.
16. The plug-in modular control unit of Claim 15 wherein said autotransformer is of torroidal configuration to fit within said elongate housing between said male plug and said female receptacle.
17. The plug-in modular control unit of Claim 16 wherein said torroidal autotransformer provides a central opening through which a structural element of said control unit housing is received.
18. The plug-in modular control unit of Claim 17 wherein said housing includes an inverted cup-shaped housing portion upwardly defining openings for a female receptacle, and downwardly defining an opening into which is received a closure member carrying male prongs of an electrical plug complementary to said female receptacle.
19. For use in combination with a street lamp having a lamp structure with a receptacle receiving an ambient light sensor for automatically activating the street lamp upon a reduction in ambient light, a modular voltage reduction apparatus configured to be interposed between the light sensor and the lamp structure, and said modular voltage reduction apparatus characterized by: a receptacle for receiving said light sensor; a plug for mating said modular voltage reduction apparatus to said lamp structure receptacle; and a voltage control circuit for starting said street lamp at full line voltage, and for sustaining operation of the street lamp at reduced voltage without interruption of current flow to said lamp structure.
20. The modular voltage reduction apparatus of Claim 19 wherein said voltage control circuit including an autotransformer having a primary winding including first and second ends, and a secondary winding having respective first and second ends;
said primary winding being connected at its first end to one side of said AC line and at its second end being connected to one side of said load device; a SPDT switch having a first switch contact connecting to said first end of said primary winding, and a common contact connecting to said load device so that when said first switch contact and said common contact are connected, said primary winding is shorted and said load device receives full line voltage;
said SPDT switch including a second switch contact connecting to a first end of said secondary winding, and a second end of said secondary winding connecting to the other side of said AC line and to the other side of said load device, so that when said second switch contact and said common contact are connected said primary and secondary windings are in series across said AC line and said load device receives reduced voltage.
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