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http://dx.doi.org/10.6113/JPE.2015.15.2.555

LED Driver with TRIAC Dimming Control by Variable Switched Capacitance for Power Regulation  

Lee, Eun-Soo (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST)
Sohn, Yeung-Hoon (Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST)
Nguyen, Duy Tan (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST)
Cheon, Jun-Pil (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST)
Rim, Chun-Taek (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST)
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Journal of Power Electronics / v.15, no.2, 2015 , pp. 555-566 More about this Journal
Abstract
A TRIAC dimming LED driver that can control the brightness of LED arrays for a wide range of source voltage variations is proposed in this paper. Unlike conventional PWM LED drivers, the proposed LED driver adopts a TRIAC switch, which inherently guarantees zero current switching and has been proven to be quite reliable over its long lifetime. Unlike previous TRIAC type LED drivers, the proposed LED driver is composed of an LC input filter and a variable switched capacitance, which is modulated by the TRIAC turn-on timing. Thus, the LED power regulation and dimming control, which are done by a volume resistor in the same way as the conventional TRIAC dimmers, can be simultaneously performed by the TRIAC control circuit. Because the proposed LED driver has high efficiency and a long lifetime with a high power factor (PF) and low total harmonic distortion (THD) characteristics, it is quite adequate for industrial lighting applications such as streets, factories, parking garages, and emergency stairs. A simple step-down capacitive power supply circuit composed of passive components only is also proposed, which is quite useful for providing DC power from an AC source without a bulky and heavy transformer. A prototype 60 W LED driver was implemented by the proposed design procedure and verified by simulation and experimental results, where the efficiency, PF, and THD are 92%, 0.94, and 6.3%, respectively. The LED power variation is well mitigated to below ${\pm}2%$ for 190 V < $V_s$ < 250 V by using the proposed simple control circuit.
Keywords
Controlled current mirror; DC power supply circuit; TRIAC dimming control; Variable switched capacitance;
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