Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers (조명전기설비학회논문지)
- Volume 25 Issue 6
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- Pages.9-17
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- 2011
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- 1229-4691(pISSN)
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- 2287-5034(eISSN)
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Design of New LED Drive using Energy Recovery Circuit
에너지 회수 회로를 이용한 새로운 LED 구동드라이브 설계
- Received : 2011.01.27
- Accepted : 2011.04.07
- Published : 2011.06.30
Abstract
The high-power LED (Light Emitting Diode) which is recently gaining popularity as a digital light source has such advantages as low power consumption, long life, fast switching speed, and high efficiency. Thus, many efforts are being made to use the high-power LEDs for general lighting. This paper proposes LED driving circuit uses a DC/DC converter that can recover energy to compensate for the current variations caused by changes in LED equivalent resistance following a temperature change instead of serial resistance. The maximum input voltage of this DC/DC converter has low voltage variations by temperature change when the rated current is formed. In order to return current to the input side, we need a high boosting at low power. Thus, to improve the low efficiency of power converter, the power converter can be configured in such a way to gather the powers of low-capacity DC/DC converters and return the total power. Experiments showed that the proposed system improved efficiency compared to the conventional LED drive using the existing DC/DC converter.