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A Design and Implementation of Circuit for Efficient Power LED Dimming Control

효율적인 고출력 LED 디밍 제어를 위한 회로 설계 및 구현

  • Kim, Doo-Hyun (Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University) ;
  • Choi, Jae-Ho (Department of Computer Information, Songwon University) ;
  • Cho, Beom-Joon (Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University)
  • Received : 2014.07.21
  • Accepted : 2014.09.01
  • Published : 2014.09.30

Abstract

The conventional dimming control methods of LED (Light-emitting dioades) include Analog, PWM (Pulse Width Modulation), and FM (Frequency Modulation) Control. Analog dimming is controlled by adjusting forward current of Power LED. Although Analog dimming is possible to control linearly the brightness levels on a whole range (0%~100%), it comes into existence a variation of wavelength by changing the Power LED's forward current. PWM dimming has achieved by varying in duty of full current flowing to the Power LED. Generally, PWM dimming doesn't make variation of wavelength but have difficulty with adjusting the linear brightness level between 0% and 10%. FM dimming method is on the same wavelength as PWM dimming, however, it has problem of flickering at low level of dimming. This paper propose a efficient dimming control method of Power LED in order to overcome the disadvantages of the above mentioned methods. We apply to Analog method in low level of dimming control and use PWM method in dimming range from 10% to 100%. For the experiment, we design and implement a circuit and test the proposed method. Consequently, we can control the linear brightness of Power LED across the whole range and get the constant wave at different dimming level. The experimental results show the benefits of the proposed method.

기존의 고출력 LED의 디밍(Dimming) 제어 방법에는 펄스폭변조, 주파수변조, 아날로그 제어 방법이 있으며, 아날로그 디밍은 순방향 고출력 LED 전류를 조정하는 방법으로 0%~100%의 전 범위에서 선형 밝기 조절이 가능하나 순방향 전류를 변화시킴으로써 파장의 변화가 존재하고, 펄스폭변조 디밍 제어는 고출력 LED에 흐르는 정격 전류의 듀티를 가변하여 조도를 제어하는 방식으로 저 레벨(0%~10%)에서 선형 밝기 조정이 어렵다. 그리고 주파수변조 디밍 또한 저 레벨의 디밍에서 빛이 깜박거리는 문제를 내포하고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 디밍 방식의 단점을 보완하고자 저 레벨 디밍 제어 시 아날로그 방식을 적용하고, 10%~100%의 디밍 제어 시에 펄스폭변조 방식을 적용하는 효율적인 디밍 제어 회로의 설계 및 구현을 제안한다. 전 범위에 걸쳐 선형 밝기 조절이 가능하고, 다양한 디밍 레벨에서 일정한 파장의 출력이 가능한 디밍 제어 회로를 구현하였으며, 실험 결과는 제안한 방법의 우수성을 보여주고 있다.

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