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LED curves (was "LEDs in parallel" on seb) - LEDEIR.pdf
These curves are for a white LED with nominal and maximum forward currents of 20 and 30mA, respectively. -- JF |
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LED curves (was "LEDs in parallel" on seb) - LEDEIR.pdf - LEDEIR2.pdf
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:20 -0600, John Fields
wrote: These curves are for a white LED with nominal and maximum forward currents of 20 and 30mA, respectively. --- "Connect-the-dots" works wonders. :-) -- JF |
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LED curves (was "LEDs in parallel" on seb) - LEDEIR.pdf - LEDEIR2.pdf
"John Fields" schreef in bericht news On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:20 -0600, John Fields wrote: These curves are for a white LED with nominal and maximum forward currents of 20 and 30mA, respectively. --- "Connect-the-dots" works wonders. :-) -- JF Well, it tells what you and I - and several others - knew and told already. If one realizes that this curves are typical values that may vary even for LEDs from the same batch and also depend on temperature he'd have to agree that constant voltage to drive a LED is bad engineering practice. petrus bitbyter |
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LED curves (was "LEDs in parallel" on seb) - LEDEIR.pdf - LEDEIR2.pdf
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:42:54 -0800, John Larkin
wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:32:15 +0100, "petrus bitbyter" wrote: "John Fields" schreef in bericht news On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:20 -0600, John Fields wrote: These curves are for a white LED with nominal and maximum forward currents of 20 and 30mA, respectively. --- "Connect-the-dots" works wonders. :-) -- JF Well, it tells what you and I - and several others - knew and told already. If one realizes that this curves are typical values that may vary even for LEDs from the same batch and also depend on temperature he'd have to agree that constant voltage to drive a LED is bad engineering practice. petrus bitbyter "Bad engineering practice" is an interesting term. I think it means "I don't approve of that." --- Then you'd approve the use of a constant voltage source to drive an LED? -- JF |
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LED curves (was "LEDs in parallel" on seb) - LEDEIR.pdf - LEDEIR2.pdf
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:38:16 -0600, John Fields
wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:42:54 -0800, John Larkin wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:32:15 +0100, "petrus bitbyter" wrote: "John Fields" schreef in bericht news On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:20 -0600, John Fields wrote: These curves are for a white LED with nominal and maximum forward currents of 20 and 30mA, respectively. --- "Connect-the-dots" works wonders. :-) -- JF Well, it tells what you and I - and several others - knew and told already. If one realizes that this curves are typical values that may vary even for LEDs from the same batch and also depend on temperature he'd have to agree that constant voltage to drive a LED is bad engineering practice. petrus bitbyter "Bad engineering practice" is an interesting term. I think it means "I don't approve of that." --- Then you'd approve the use of a constant voltage source to drive an LED? Approve? I'm not in the approval business. I might do it. If it was volume production, low cost, and I could depend on the LEDs to be consistent. Like an LED flashlight, for example. A small white LED and a couple of alkaline cells is a common design, and seems to work just fine. Or if I had some other reason, like wanting to drive an LED really fast, for example. "Good engineering practice" is doing what works. -- John Larkin, President Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators |
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LED curves (was "LEDs in parallel" on seb) - LEDEIR.pdf - LEDEIR2.pdf
John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:32:15 +0100, "petrus bitbyter" wrote: "John Fields" schreef in bericht news On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:20 -0600, John Fields wrote: These curves are for a white LED with nominal and maximum forward currents of 20 and 30mA, respectively. --- "Connect-the-dots" works wonders. :-) -- JF Well, it tells what you and I - and several others - knew and told already. If one realizes that this curves are typical values that may vary even for LEDs from the same batch and also depend on temperature he'd have to agree that constant voltage to drive a LED is bad engineering practice. petrus bitbyter "Bad engineering practice" is an interesting term. I think it means "I don't approve of that." Howsomever, the "constant voltage" scheme is eXtremely (yes, "X" rated) common way to drive parallel LEDs..three 1.5V cells in series driving a number of LEDs in parallel (have a light with 24 LEDs driven that way, NO resistor). |
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