Power supplies for LED driving by Steve Winder

By Steve Winder

Power provides for LED using, moment Edition explores the extensive use of light-emitting diodes because of their effective use of strength. The purposes for energy LEDs contain site visitors lighting, road lamps, automobile lighting fixtures, architectural lighting, theatre lights, loved ones gentle replacements, signage lights (replacing neon strip lighting and fluorescent tubes), liquid crystal display reveal backlighting, and lots of more.

Powering (driving) those LED's isn't really constantly basic. Linear using is inefficient and generates a long way an excessive amount of warmth. With a switching offer, the most matters are EMI, potency, and naturally fee. This e-book covers the layout trade-offs concerned with LED using functions, from low-power, to UB-LEDs and beyond.

  • Provides a pragmatic, hands-on method of energy offer layout for LED drivers
  • Contains special examples of what works during the layout process
  • Presents observation on how the calculated part worth compares with the particular worth used, together with an outline of why the alternative was once made

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The highest branch voltage (corresponding to the LED string with the lowest forward voltage) is used to bias the transistors in the linear operating region. The cathode of each diode is connected to a common ‘bias bus’. To accommodate variations in string voltages and keep the current divider transistors from saturation, diodes are connected between the ‘bias bus’ and the ‘transistor base bus’. More than one external diode can be used to accommodate large voltage variations. If the string voltage variation is less than one diode drop, the two buses can be joined.

Thus the off-time is constant, so the switching frequency varies as the load voltage changes. If we choose a timing resistor that gives a constant off-time of say 5 ms, with an 80% duty cycle the on-time will be 20 ms. The switching frequency will be 40 kHz. 33%, so the on-time will be 767 ns. 4 kHz. The average switching frequency will be about 100 kHz, so we can base the selection of other components on this. The timing resistor to give 5 ms off-time will be 100 k . 3 Choosing the Input Capacitor (C1) An electrolytic capacitor is good to hold the voltage, but the large ESR of these capacitors makes it unsuitable to absorb the high frequency ripple current generated by the buck converter.

We can use this change to detect a failure. 6: Shorted Load Indication. 6, a 10 V Zener diode is used in series with the base of an NPN transistor. When the voltage at the ‘IN’ terminal of the LM317 reaches about 11 V, the Zener diode conducts and turns on the transistor. This pulls the ‘FAILURE’ line to 0 V and indicates a short circuit across the LEDs. 2 Current Source Since an LED behaves like a constant voltage load, it can be directly connected to a current source. The voltage across the LED, or string of LEDs, will be determined by the characteristics of the LEDs used.

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