Best LED Recessed Lighting for Ceiling Upgrades: Retrofit vs. Canless

Retrofit LEDs simplify existing-can upgrades, while ultra-thin canless fixtures offer a practical solution for new ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Considerations of Field LED Driver Replacement Published

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published NEMA LSD 74-2016 Considerations of Field LED Driver Replacement. This new white paper discusses issues related to the field ...
Electronic Design

Engineering LED Drivers for Incandescent Bulb Replacement is a BOM Challenge

LED-based bulbs that replace their incandescent counterparts require a significant amount of engineering (Fig. 1). In the 60 W range the LED driver board can take up about 15% of the overall cost of ...
Electronic Design

Dimming techniques for LED drivers

The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. Consider, for example, ...