National's Chris Richardson discusses general lighting how to tackle the electrical drive portion, and how to pick the right LED driver for a given set of LEDs.
Topics include:
- What is “General Illumination”?
- Three pieces of the puzzle
- Challenges in general illumination
- Arraying your LEDs
- AC to CC (Constant Current)
- DC bus with multiple DC-DC LED drivers
- Buck is best
- Boost for long strings
- Buck-boost: when all else fails!
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