A lamp inverter with continuous strike voltage facilitates faster striking of a fluorescent lamp, especially at cold temperatures. A frequency sweep generator sweeps the frequency of the lamp inverter to a striking frequency corresponding to a striking lamp voltage and then maintains the striking frequency...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7411360?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7411360 - Apparatus and method for striking a fluorescent lamp
Apparatus and method for striking a fluorescent lamp