WO2003065771A1 - Control device for operating a plurality of lamps - Google Patents
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- WO2003065771A1 WO2003065771A1 PCT/DE2003/000240 DE0300240W WO03065771A1 WO 2003065771 A1 WO2003065771 A1 WO 2003065771A1 DE 0300240 W DE0300240 W DE 0300240W WO 03065771 A1 WO03065771 A1 WO 03065771A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
- H05B41/00—Circuit arrangements or apparatus for igniting or operating discharge lamps
- H05B41/14—Circuit arrangements
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- Control device for the operation of a plurality of lights
- the invention relates to a control device for operating a plurality of lights, in particular gas discharge lights, with a power supply part, a plurality of ballasts for the lights and at least one connection device connected to the ballasts with plug devices for connecting cables leading to the lights, for connection to the same plug device Luminaires of different power types are provided with different assignments of connection contacts of the plug device.
- Luminaires with gas discharge lamps are used to illuminate stages, events, films or the like. used, a large number of such lights are required for illumination, which should often have different brightnesses and are therefore designed for different power consumption.
- ballasts that serve to convert an available supply voltage into a control voltage suitable for the operation of the lights.
- a generated alternating voltage is usually rectified in the ballasts and the rectified voltage is switched over at high frequency in order to ignite the lamp for discharges in alternating current directions at high frequency.
- the ballasts therefore perform the functions of reversing and current regulation in order to set constant lighting conditions.
- the ballasts can also be provided with a device with which the connected type of luminaire can be identified in order to prevent the interconnection of unsuitable luminaires and ballasts, which would damage both the ballasts and the luminaires.
- connection plugs of the ballasts have practical disadvantages, since connecting bridges are often routed from the ballast to a connection box that is provided on the output side with numerous identical connection plugs, in the corresponding same, for bridging larger distances between the ballast and the luminaire Plugs of the lights can be inserted. It is therefore known to provide different assignment of the connection terminals of the plug device for luminaires of different power types, which can be recognized by the ballast. For this purpose, two terminals of the plug device are regularly short-circuited by the connected lamp, the information about the lamp type being contained in which of the contacts are short-circuited.
- ballasts When using the known connection boxes, care must be taken to ensure that a suitable assignment is established between a luminaire and an associated ballast on the input and output side.
- the numerous cables leading from the ballasts to the connection box must therefore be carefully identified and connected in a predetermined order. Because of the sometimes high power to be transmitted, there is therefore considerable elaborate cabling between ballasts and the connection box or distribution box, which prohibits the ballasts from being too far away from the connection boxes. The consequence of this is that the ballasts have to be set up in a complex manner near the lights.
- the present invention is therefore based on the object of designing a control device of the type mentioned at the outset such that a simplified construction is possible and the risk of damage due to incorrect connections can be avoided.
- a control device of the type mentioned at the outset is characterized in that the connection device for connecting the lights has modules which have a detection circuit for the power type of the connected light and a switching device for switching contacts of the plug device as a function of the detected power type having.
- the invention is based on providing the connection device with a certain level of intelligence of its own, in order in this way to shift subtasks of the ballast into the connection device. This makes it possible to standardize the cabling between ballasts and the connection device and to do it with a single multi-core cable. This in turn allows the ballasts to be operated at a considerable distance from the connection device or the lights. This makes it possible to transport the ballasts in a preassembled state, for example on a truck, and to put them into operation.
- ballasts are connected to the connection device, which in turn is connected on the input side to the ballasts via the multi-core cable in such a way that a ballast is connected to a module via its, preferably two, input terminals.
- the control device allows the connection of different types of lights to the connection device.
- the ballast has a detection circuit for the power consumption of the lamp located in the connected lamp, one is Damaging, faulty connection between luminaire and ballast excluded.
- the detection circuit of the ballast can have a voltage detector in a known manner, by means of which, for example, two different power levels of the lamps to be connected can be distinguished.
- the detection circuit has a control device by means of which a signal is sent to the connected lamp before the supply power is switched on, the lamp generates a response signal, and an evaluation circuit in the detection circuit evaluates the response signal of the lamp to detect the type of lamp.
- a ballast and the method for detecting the type of light is described in the unpublished German patent application 101 39 402.0, to which reference is made.
- Figure 1 - a schematic representation in an arrangement of the parts of a control device according to the invention in a first embodiment
- Figure 2 - a schematic circuit diagram for a connection device with two connectable different types of lights
- Figure 3 - a schematic representation of Figure 1 for a second embodiment of the invention
- Figure 4 - a schematic circuit diagram for a connection device for
- Figure 5 - a schematic circuit diagram for a third embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1 shows a first truck 1, which is loaded with a powerful generator for a mobile power supply.
- Pre-assembled ballasts 4 are supplied with the required electrical power on a second truck 3 via a supply cable 2.
- the ballasts 4 are connected to a multi-core cable 5, with which a large distance S to a filming location 6 is bridged.
- the multi-core cable 5 is connected to a connection device 7, to which three lights 8, 9, 10 are connected in the exemplary embodiment shown.
- the lamp 8 is intended to be a 2.5 kW headlight
- the lamp 9 is a 4 kW headlight
- the lamp 10 is a universal headlight which can be equipped with a 2.5 kW or a 4 kW lamp.
- connection device 7 which in the exemplary embodiment shown is constructed with three identical modules 11.
- the connection device 7 On the cable side, the connection device 7 has a plug arrangement 1 2 with which the connection to the multi-core cable 5 is established. Two connection terminals each of the connector arrangement 1 2 lead the supply voltage to the modules 1 1. A connection terminal is connected to a protective earth PE. Two free connection terminals are looped through the connection device and serve to supply any additional devices to be connected.
- the modules 1 1 each have a plug device 13 on the light side, each with 7 contacts, which can be coupled to plug contacts A - G of lights 8, 9.
- Each module contains a circuit arrangement 1 6, which the Interconnection at the plug contacts A, B, F of the connected lights 8, 9 is recognized and accordingly controls three relays K1, K2, K3, whose associated relay contacts K1 .1, K2.1, K3.1 in the to those with the plug terminals D, E, C of the lights 8, 9 connectable terminals of the plug device 13 leading lines are switched on.
- the drawing shows that the lamp 9, which is designed as a 4 kW lamp, has a switchable short circuit between the plug terminals B and F, while the lamp 8 designed as a 2.5 kW lamp has such a switchable short circuit between the plug terminals A. and B contains.
- the lights 8, 9 are switched differently in the provision of their respective lamp 1 7.
- the lamp 9 requires the supply voltage from the ballast on the lines connected to the plug terminals D and E, while the lamp 8 must have this supply voltage on the lines of the plug terminals D and C.
- the circuit device 1 6 thus recognizes the type of the connected light 8, 9 and effects the corresponding wiring of the connection terminals of the plug device 13 via the relays K1, K2, K3.
- a lamp 9 with 4 kW or a lamp 8 with 2.5 kW can optionally be connected to each module 11 of the connecting device 7, since the associated module 11 automatically effects the correct wiring for the lamp type. Accordingly, different outputs of the ballasts 4 need not be provided accordingly for the supply of different types of luminaires 8, 9.
- the output of the ballasts can be uniform and independent of whether a lamp 9 or a lamp 8 is connected.
- the switchover is carried out by the connection device 7. It can be expedient to regulate the power supplied to the respective lamp 8, 9 as a function of the lamp type by means of the ballast 4.
- the ballast 4 can be provided in a manner known per se with a detection device (not shown) by means of which the power consumption of the connected lamp 17 is detected.
- a universal lamp 10 can also be used, which is suitable for receiving both types of lamps 17 and regularly has a connector coding for one 4 kW lamp 8, so that the connection device 7 recognizes the universal lamp 10 as a 4 kW lamp 9.
- connection device 7 'lights 8', 9 ', 10' being connected which have different power consumption, namely the light 8 '1 200 W, the lights 9' 575 W each and the luminaires 10 'each 200 W.
- connection device 7 ' The corresponding design of the connection device 7 'is shown in FIG. 4.
- connection device 7 ′ has six modules 1 8, which are supplied by the plug device 1 2 with two supply lines each.
- each module is provided with two different plug devices 1 3, 13 ', the plug devices 1 3' being used exclusively for contacting lights 10 'with 200 W. Serve recording power. If lights 10 'of this power class are not connected, the plug devices 13' can be omitted.
- the plug devices 13 are designed in an analogous manner to the plug devices described with reference to FIG. 2.
- the contacts A, B, E serve to identify the type of light 8 ', 9'.
- the relays K1, K2, K3 controlled by the circuit device 16 are used here only to switch the supply power on and off, since the lamp types 8 ′, 9 ′ are not wired differently with respect to the supply of the lamp 17.
- the relay K3 switches connecting lines between the lines carrying the supply power of the adjacent modules 18, so that they are connected in parallel.
- the two modules 18 are suitable for controlling the connected luminaire 8 'with 1200 W input power, since in this case the two associated ballasts 4 are also connected in parallel.
- the circuit device 16 'of the adjacent module 18 ensures that the connector device 13 is switched to inactive, so that any lamp 9' connected to this connector device 13 remains unused, since the supply power is required for the lamp 8 'connected to the parallel connection ,
- the adjacent modules 18 can each supply a lamp 9'.
- circuit device 16, 16 In contrast, the circuit device 16, 16 'detects an occupancy of the
- Plug device 13 'by a 200 W lamp 10' the corresponding supply lines are activated by the contacts K2.1, K2.2 of the relay K2.
- the lamps 8 ', 9', 10 'shown in this exemplary embodiment are preferably designed such that they enable the power consumption of the lamp 17 by the ballast 4 to be recognized by automatically responding to an interrogation signal generated by the ballast 4 before it is switched on Response signal is generated, which is fed back via line F to the ballast 4 and encodes the connected lamp type 1 7.
- a detailed disclosure of this method and the devices suitable therefor can be found in the German patent application 101 39 402.0, to which reference is made.
- the circuit devices 16, 1 6 'of the modules 1 1, 1 8 each enable the implementation of an on-off switch 1 9, so that the lights 8, 9, 10, 8', 9 'connected to the modules 1 1, 1 8 , 10 'can also be switched on and off manually on the connecting device 7, 7', that is to say in the vicinity of the location of the lights.
- FIG. 5 again schematically illustrates the spatially separate arrangement of the generator 1 and the ballasts 4 from the location 6, the distance to the location 6 being bridged by the multi-core cable 5.
- the multi-core cable 5 leads at the location 6 to the connection device 7 to which the lights 8, 9, 10 are connected.
- the multi-core cable 5 can contain a signaling line 20, with which the types of luminaires recognized by the circuit devices 1 6, 1 6 'or a response signal for lamp detection can be transmitted.
- the invention also makes it possible to implement a remote control 21 by selectively switching on and off or dimming individual ballasts 4.
- the transport of the ballasts 4 to the location 6 can be omitted.
- the Ballasts 4 By arranging the Ballasts 4 on the truck 3 ensures constant weather protection for the ballasts 4. The noise caused by the ballasts 4 does not interfere at the location 6.
- the arrangement of the ballasts 4 with the large distance from the location 6 also enables a short supply line 2 between generator 1 and ballasts 4.
- the invention therefore solves numerous previously existing problems in the installation of complex lighting systems.
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