I made this dimmer circuit because I have a cheap chinese LED lamp that doesn’t have the option to dim its light. It is a simple PWM dimmer built with the well-knows 555 integrated circuit and a power ...

Frank Hertel’s project: three individually dimmable LED lights. (Frank is the master of recycling; the wooden mounting pedestals are the panels from a decommissioned ATI console!) Thanks for your ...

This is a circuit in which LED glows slowly in the beginning, then grows brighter and once again slowly it becomes dim. The basis of the whole circuit is an operational amplifier IC named LM358. This ...

A recent discussion with Scott Brown of iWatt revealed some interesting facts about the design of IC drivers for consumer LED lighting. Although LED lifetime can reach about 20 years and the power ...

Power Integrations announced a new reference design (RDK-251) for a 5-watt offline LED driver that includes flicker-free TRIAC dimming and single-stage power factor correction (PFC). Power ...