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Why aren't many / most LED light bulbs dimmable?
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G. Morgan[_6_]
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Why aren't many / most LED light bulbs dimmable?
z wrote:
From some recent work, a blue LED at about 5mA drops about
3V. At 20mA the drop is closer to 3.3V. Now, put thirty of these in a
string and the difference is 10V. You only have 20V across the
resistor - it's changed 50%. ...and this is quite nonlinear.
The resistor is a current regulator not a voltage regulator.
AN LED DOES NOT HAVE A VOLTAGE DROP, the voltage can only be
measured with a resistor in series with the DIODE. This is not a
lamp, incandescent, or CFL. It's a ****ing DIODE.
A resistor regulates nothing. R==V/I. If you say that I is constant
because V is constant and V is constant because I is constant, you're
getting nowhere. ;-).
Bull****, you pick resistor sizes based on how much current you
need/want. The R is fixed, thus so is the voltage drop. Are you
talking about a simulated dimmer like he suggested?
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