LED POWER SUPPLIES – FUNCTION AND APPLICATION AREAS
LED power supplies, also known as LED drivers, are essential components in modern lighting systems. They convert and regulate electrical energy to provide a constant and reliable power source for light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Since LEDs require a specific current and voltage to operate efficiently, LED power supplies ensure optimal brightness, longevity, and safety of the lighting system.
FUNCTION
An LED power supply converts the input voltage—either AC or DC—into a controlled output suitable for LED operation. It maintains a constant current or constant voltage, depending on the design requirements of the LED system. This regulation protects LEDs from voltage fluctuations, prevents overheating, and ensures consistent light output. Advanced models also include dimming control, power factor correction, and protection circuits against short-circuit or overload conditions.
APPLICATION AREAS
LED power supplies are used in a wide variety of lighting applications, including:
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Architectural and decorative lighting: Supplying stable power for indoor and outdoor illumination systems
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Street and public lighting: Ensuring reliable performance and energy efficiency in large-scale lighting installations
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Commercial and industrial lighting: Powering LED panels, high-bay lights, and display lighting
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Residential lighting: Providing safe and flicker-free power for home LED lamps and strips
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Automotive lighting: Used in headlights, interior lighting, and signal lamps of vehicles
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Signage and displays: Driving LEDs in advertising panels, digital billboards, and information displays
OUR LED POWER PARTNERS
POWERING THE BRILLIANCE OF LIGHT.
Artesyn Embedded Power is a market leader in AC-DC power supplies and DC-DC converters. All of these power supply products carry the well-known brand names Astec or Artesyn and are known for their excellent performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness. Our portfolio of AC-DC power supplies is particularly extensive (3 to 960 watts low and medium power / output power of up to 24,000 watts medium to high power). Our portfolio of DC/DC conversion products includes an extremely wide range of isolated DC/DC converters. We also produce high voltage quarter brick, half brick and full brick DC-DC converter modules for application specific power supplies in specialty markets such as avionics and railroad, along with a complementary range of Power Factor Correction (PFC). modules.
Excelsys Technologies, part of Advanced Energy, is a modern and advanced electronic power supply company that provides industry-leading products to original equipment manufacturers around the world. Combining the latest technology, management methodologies, and a total customer service philosophy, Excelsys provides highly reliable, high-technology power solutions for the medical, industrial, communications, and military electronics markets. Excelsys is based in a modern factory with a highly qualified staff that prides itself on its ability to provide complete customer satisfaction. They achieve this through service and product quality and by offering a solution with excellent value for money for our customers' needs.
Advanced Energy is shaping and transforming the way the world's leading semiconductor and industrial companies use, deliver and control power efficiently. They design and manufacture highly engineered, precision solutions for powering, metering and controlling mission-critical applications and processes. Their power supply solutions enable innovations in complex semiconductor and thin-film plasma processes, high and low voltage applications and in temperature-critical environments. From everyday screens to life-saving medical devices and procedures, your products and solutions enable their continuous development and improvement. Advanced Energy's high voltage products feature powerful power supplies and amplifiers. Each product line includes hundreds of units, options and accessories to meet your application needs.
SL POWER Electronics is a global leader in the design and manufacture of AC/DC power conversion solutions used by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in their mission-critical applications. Our product portfolio includes a comprehensive range of standard, modified and fully customized turnkey solutions. With more than 60 years of experience in the energy industry, we offer OEMs superior performance with solutions optimized for thermal management, reliability, EMI/EMC, power density and energy efficiency. At SL Power Electronics we specifically target three primary market segments: Medical, LED and Industrial.
In partnership with Vicor, worldwide leader in high density DC/DC converters, Power System Technology designs and manufactures modular power solutions. This approach reduces time for the design and bridging the gap between custom and off-the-shelf power supplies.
Flexibility and reactivity of in-house manufacturing with dedicated equipment like wave soldering, automatic cut for wiring, ESD cabling bench and many more enables PST a fast response on changing requirements.Our engineers add extra circuitry and intelligence around standard Vicor power modules. They are using their expertise in E.M.I., thermal management, mechanical packaging and environment qualifications. CAD tool and thermal chamber, AC and DC programmable sources and loads, E.M.I. bench enables a full qualification of prototypes according to the most severe constraints of customer specifications.
Vitec dc conversion is offering a wide range of small and medium PCB mounted DC/DC converters and DC/DC devices from 1 to 600W.
Covering today's demands in electronic applications Vitec is providing galvanic isolated converters with 1 to 3 outputs in through-hole as well as SMD versions. Input ranges from +10% up to ultra wide 16:1 versions and regulated or unregulated types are already representing a very complete standard portfolio. In addition to that we are able to provide custom-specific solution matching your requirements and expectations. Our products meet several industry specific standards as for example medical applications with higher isolations or constant current demands for LED devices.
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