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May 03, 2013
New 60V DC/DC LED Drivers Improve Efficiency, Light Quality and Operating Lifetime
The products ILD6070 and ILD6150 have a maximum current capability of up to 0.7A and 1.5A respectively. The ICs offer excellent power conversion efficiency up to 98%, benchmark current accuracy of +-3% across the load from 4.5 – 60V that helps assure constant light output, and first-in-the-industry adjustable over-temperature protection that protects LEDs from damage through overheating. The products are defined as general purpose LED driver ICs, mostly to be used in professional lighting systems, luminaires and electronic control gears.
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May 14, 2013
Green Watt Power Announces New 50 Watt Dimmable Power Supply
Green Watt Power, a division of Calex Mfg. Co., Inc. in Concord, California, announces the introduction of the GLCD 50 Watt constant current dimmable LED power supplies. The dimming options for the GLCD 50 include 0-10V, PWM and external potentiometer. All models feature a universal 100-277 VAC input with nominal output current values of 500 mA, 700 mA, 1.05 A, 1.4 A, 1.75 A, 2.1 A and 2.8 A. The dimming range is 10 to 100%.0 to 100% dimming options are available on request.
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May 14, 2013
Microchip's New 8-bit PIC® Microcontroller Family with Intelligent Analog Integration for SSL Applications
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced an expansion of its 8-bit PIC16F178X enhanced Mid-Range core microcontroller (MCU) family with increased Flash memory densities, intelligent analog and digital peripherals, such as on-chip 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), 16-bit PWMs, 8-bit and 5-bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), operational amplifiers, and high-speed comparators with 50 ns response time, along with EUSART (including LIN), I2C™ and SPI interface peripherals.
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May 14, 2013
GlacialPower Announces Two New GP-LD Series DC Input LED Drivers for 12V and 24V DC
GlacialPower, a division of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce two new GlacialPower LED drivers for variable voltage LED lights – GP-LD10-30C and GP-LD15-24C.
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May 14, 2013
Microchip Expands General-Purpose 8-bit PIC® Microcontroller Portfolio Further
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced an expansion to the PIC16F75X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring intelligent analog and core-independent peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well as LED lighting, power supplies, battery charging, power management and power control/smart energy applications. The new PIC16F753 MCU builds on the success of the popular PIC12F752.
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May 15, 2013
ZMDI Releases the ZSLS7031 Primary-Side Peak-Current Mode LED Driver IC
ZMD AG, a Dresden-based semiconductor company that specializes in enabling energy-efficient solutions, today announces the release of the newest member of its LED driver family, the ZSLS7031, a primary-side peak-current mode LED driver for high-brightness LED lighting. As a global supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, medical, information technology and consumer applications, ZMDI specializes in products that enable energy efficient solutions such as the ZSLS7031.
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May 21, 2013
Xenerqi Launches DUO DIM Series – LED Drivers that Provide TRIAC and 0-10V Dimming
As an industry first, Xenerqi Limited has launched its line of LED Drivers with embedded DUO DIM® Technology. These revolutionary drivers allow installers to use a single driver for installations with mixed TRIAC and 0-10V dimming technologies.
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May 31, 2013
iWatt Introduces New Single-Stage LED Drivers with Exceptional Dimming Performance and Lower BOM Cost
iWatt Inc., a leading provider of digital-centric power management integrated circuits (ICs), today launched its latest single-stage, solid state lighting (SSL) LED drivers to address cost, performance and lifetime issues in dimmable bulb applications. Following the introduction of its single-stage LED driver for non-dimmable incandescent bulb replacement applications earlier this year, iWatt is debuting the iW3606 (8W output power) and iW3608 (15W output power), giving LED bulb manufacturers an alternative approach to significantly lower cost and tackle the lifetime and performance issues in dimmable applications. Both new LED drivers allow SSL designers to reduce their bill of materials (BOM) cost by 20% to 40%(1) compared to competitive solutions. The iW3606 and iW3608 incorporate iWatt’s patented, configurable over-temperature protection (OTP) and derating functionality to provide predictability and reliability of bulb operating life and offer what the company believes is the industry’s lowest pop-on current, < 5% of light output.
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Jun 04, 2013
SELC's New LED Driver for Sophisticated Street Lighting Control
SELC announced the launch of the SmartStar® LED Driver as the company continue to develop their range of 21st century street lighting control products. DALI and 1 - 10V versions are also available. This lower wattage unit will soon be followed by a range of highly sophisticated higher wattage drivers.
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Jun 04, 2013
GlacialPower Announces Six New GP-LP060P Constant Current and Constant Voltage DC 4-Step Dimming LED Drivers
GlacialPower, a division of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce six new constant current and constant voltage GlacialPower step dimming GP-LP060P LED drivers. The six drivers cover the entire DC output range of 12V to 57V DC and deliver up to 60W of power to the LED. All the drivers have been designed for LED lights.
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Jun 04, 2013
TALEXXconverter ECO - The High End of the New Tridonic Platform
Tridonic presents the ECO series of TALEXX converters, a new addition to its LED converter platform. It combines high quality with a wide range of applications. These high-end products can be infinitely dimmed from 100 percent to 1 percent and offer impressive properties, including luminous flux compensation for the connected LED module and long life. The LED control gear can be adapted to different module parameters with a high degree of flexibility.
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Jun 11, 2013
NXP Brings High Efficiency to 12V MR16 Lamps with Dimmable LED Controller
NXP Semiconductors N.V. today unveiled the SSL3401 – a dimmable single-stage controller IC for retrofit MR16 LED lamps using 12V AC mains. The SSL3401 offers compatibility with an exceptionally wide range of dimmers and transformers – working with over 80% of the most common combinations – in a compact form factor that fits in all commonly used MR16 GU5.3 and AR111 housings and sockets. Supporting an ambient temperature range up to 105ºC, the SSL3401 also provides temperature rollback protection.
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Jun 24, 2013
5-60VIN /80VOUT LED Driver with Internal PWM Generator
The LT3955, a DC/DC converter designed to operate as a constant-current source and constant-voltage regulator with an internal 3.5A switch, is now available from Linear Technology. The device’s internal PWM dimming generator makes it ideal for driving high current LEDs, and it also has features suitable for charging batteries and supercapacitors. The LT3955’s 4.5V to 60V input voltage range suits a wide variety of applications, including automotive, industrial and architectural lighting.
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Jun 25, 2013
Xenerqi’s 75W Family of LED Drivers for Ambient Lighting Adds External Current Control to All Variants
Xenerqi Limited introduces its popular 75W Ambient Lighting driver (XEL-A075A Series) by adding compatibility with general step dimmers and by allowing for external adjustment of the output current on all members in this family, providing installers and fixture makers the widest flexibility possible since they can do field adjustments as needed.
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Jun 28, 2013
Diodes' Releases DC-DC Converter to Save Space in LED Lighting Applications
Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today announced a miniature DC-DC converter supporting boost, buck and voltage-inverting circuit topologies for LED lighting and general-purpose power management applications. The AL8811 is available in the 3.0mm x 4.9mm x 1.1mm MSOP-8L package, requiring minimal external components and enabling significant reductions in both circuit footprint and BOM cost.
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Jul 02, 2013
GWP Announces 75 Watt Constant Voltage LED Power Supply Availability
Green Watt Power, a division of Calex Mfg. Co., Inc. based out of Concord, California, announces the availability of the GLV75 constant voltage LED power supply. The GLV-24-75 is a 24 Volt output 3.15A fully encapsulated IP67 rated power supply, ideal for LED lighting applications requiring that voltage and current rating. The GLV-24-75 is protected by over voltage protection, short circuit protection with auto recovery, over temperature protection and backed by Green Watt Power’s five year warranty for years of reliable performance. The MTBF for the GLV75 is 200,000 hours.
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Jul 08, 2013
Cirrus Logic CS1615/16 - Single-Stage LED Drivers Offer Best Dimming Performance
Cirrus Logic digital LED controllers solve dimmer compatibility issues that have slowed consumer adoption of LED retrofit bulbs. The CS1615/16, CS1610/11/12/13 and CS1630/31 controller families feature Cirrus Logic's proprietary digital technology that enables these controllers to identify the type of dimmer in use and adapt the algorithm to provide smooth “monotonic”, flicker-free dimming and solve complex engineering challenges. For the consumer, the user experience nearly mirrors that of incandescent bulbs.
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Jul 17, 2013
New Compact 7W Constant-Current LED Driver from RECOM
Introducing the new RACD07, RECOM Lighting adds a new low-cost, constant-current LED driver to their portfolio. Thanks to its universal input range of 90-295VAC, the RACD07 is ideally suitable for applications worldwide. The modules supply a power of 7 watts and are available with constant-current options of 250mA, 350mA, 500mA or 700mA.
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Jul 17, 2013
Thomas Research Products Adds Dimmable 20W LED Driver
Thomas Research Products has introduced new dimming versions of their standard 20W LED Drivers. Thomas Research Products is a leading manufacturer of SSL power solutions.
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Jul 17, 2013
TI Introduces High-Power LED Driver for General-Purpose Area Lighting and Automotive
Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a high-power, multi-topology DC/DC LED driver with adjustable switching frequency and current sense threshold that provides design flexibility and low electro-magnetic interference (EMI) for automotive headlamps, fog lights and general-purpose area lighting. The TPS92690 is an N-channel MOSFET controller with low-side current sense designed to support step-up (boost) or step-up/step-down (SEPIC, Cuk, flyback) LED driver topologies.
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