EDN

Capacitor selection helps achieve long lifetimes for LED lights

This presentation was originally given by Andrew Smith, product manager, LED Lighting at Power Integrations for EDN’s May 2011 live LED event in San Jose. Consumers often see LED lamp failures. If you ...
Hackaday

light dependent capacitor

The function of an LED is to emit light when the device is forward biased within its operating range, and it’s known by most people that an LED can also operate as a photodiode. Perhaps some readers ...
Electronic Design

Low Profile Polyacene Capacitors (Supercap) for LED Flash

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. introduces the Polyacene Capacitors (Supercap) PAS2126FR2R5504, measuring 26 mm x 20 mm with a maximum height of 0.9 mm. At a remarkable 0.9 mm thin, the Polyacene Capacitor ...
Elektor Magazine

Back to the Future inspired Flux Capacitor LED effect

This project uses 3 lines of 5 LEDs arranged in a Y configuration to visually resemble the famous Flux Capacitor from the DeLorean time machine. The LEDs run a smooth one-direction chase effect with ...
Electronic Design

APEC Technical Session: A New High Power Factor, Soft-Switched LED Driver Without Electrolytic Capacitors

A novel high power factor, soft-switched Light Emitting Diode (LED) driver without electrolytic capacitors is proposed in this paper. Conventional electrolytic capacitors used in LED drivers as the ...
EDN

Capacitor selection helps achieve long lifetimes for LED lights

This presentation was originally given by Andrew Smith, product manager, LED Lighting at Power Integrations for EDN’s May 2011 live LED event in San Jose. The next free LED event will be part of ...