In many consumer applications for lighting the cost of existing technology – namely incandescent light bulbs or fluorescent tubes – is so low that LED lighting’s many advantages simply cannot make up ...

This is the circuit diagram of bipolar LED Driver using microcontroller. Here we use an LED which has a forward voltage drop of 2.2V and hence can be biased using a 5V supply. This Bipolar LED Driver ...

Guest columnist Faraz Hasan, marketing and business development manager at Tyco Electronics Circuit Protection Products says that LEDs can require overcurrent protection despite built-in safety ...

International Rectifier’s IRS29831 LEDrivIR integrates an LED driver controller and a 700-V MOSFET optimized for single-stage flyback and buck-boost topologies used in LED drivers, including LED bulb ...

In this article, we continue our discussion on the importance of grounding when installing LED lighting equipment. Part 1 of this three-part series focuses on the ground plane of the printed circuit ...

Dimming LEDs is an important feature in many of today’s solid state lighting applications. While many implementations for dimming LEDs in the market today rely on PWM modulation of the LED driving ...