Regular Hackaday readers are surely familiar with Nixie tubes: the fantastically retro cold cathode display devices that hackers have worked into all manner of devices (especially timepieces) to give ...

Research in LED drivers and power converters continues to drive advances in efficient energy management and precision control for modern lighting applications. These systems are crucial to optimising ...

HIGH-POWER LEDS are a completely different light source compared to previous technologies used in general illumination applications. Therefore, to leverage the optimal fixture life-expectancy and ...

This article is a design idea of a LED driver for halogen light bulb retrofit using LinkSwitch-TN. The design highlights include constant current (cc) output, universal input voltage range, meets ...

Power LEDs are becoming more and more commonplace as bedroom light sources for a number of reasons. The greatest advantage of LED light sources, in my opinion, is that they last for a very long time.