Driving an Analog 0v-10V Ballast with Arduino & IRL540N or RFP30N06L MOSFET.

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Hello there , i need some advice and comments in my thoughts on how to Drive an Analog 0-10v light Ballast with an 5v PWM arduino..
i am using the IRL540N MOSFET latetly in projects as a driver when i want to pass voltage easy with arduino...

the specs for IRL540N and the general idea is similar to RFP30N06LE more about it is here in this blog.. http://bildr.org/2012/03/rfp30n06le-arduino/

So in order to drive the ballast with analog 0-10v i will probably need a Ac/Dc adaptor 10V as the power source , the driver will be the MOSFET and the arduino will do the dimming...

My fritzing Sketch is this..

This is the T5 ligh ballast

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nobody??????

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If I understand your picture. ..

You're supplying 10v as a constant, and using pwm to switch the ballast on and off, 0 off 10v on, it's not going to give a 0-10v range which I think you want, having said that ..

If the load is controlled by the mosfet and not a circuit expecting a voltage in which it varies the output it should work... eg if 1v was supplied and it worked, then a capacitor could be used to vary it's voltage to the ballast via pwm.

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cjdelphi:
If I understand your picture. ..

You're supplying 10v as a constant, and using pwm to switch the ballast on and off, 0 off 10v on, it's not going to give a 0-10v range which I think you want, having said that ..

If the load is controlled by the mosfet and not a circuit expecting a voltage in which it varies the output it should work... eg if 1v was supplied and it worked, then a capacitor could be used to vary it's voltage to the ballast via pwm.

what i want is 0-10v Range , in order to Dim .. the particular MOSFET does that..

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gc9n:
in order to Dim .. the particular MOSFET does that..

No, it does not.
But, go for it ? see how that goes.