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 ...

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 ...

Selecting the right type of circuit protection for a light-emitting-diode (LED) driver can be challenging because system demands vary greatly, depending on the application and power source. However, ...

Since the earliest versions of indoor LED light bulbs were developed, their designers have faced a variety of technical challenges. These include AC-to-DC power conversion, thermal design/heat-sinking ...

The PS30, a constant duty cycle 67 kHz LED driver from Supertex, is optimized for dimmable off-line LED bulb/tube applications, providing high power factor correction (PFC). The PS30 is intended to ...

Supertex’s PS30 constant-frequency (67 kHz), constant duty-cycle LED driver provides high power factor correction (PFC) for dimmable off-line LED bulb and tube applications. The device is intended to ...