Murata has announced a new series of multi layer ceramic capacitors specifically designed to provide dc smoothing and acoustic noise reduction in led lighting applications. The GR3 and RDE ranges have ...

To understand the technology associated with practical LED dimming we first have to look at the technology associated with triac-based incandescent lamp dimmers. The typical triac lamp dimmer circuit ...

First of all, apologies if this is not the appropriate forum for such a thing, but I didn't really think it appropriate to put anywhere else. In any case, I bought 2 30 light strings from the HEB up ...

Guest columnist Naoyuki Kobayashi, senior product manager at Murata says that one problem frequently encountered when designing LED lighting circuits is that the capacitors in the circuit experience ...

Maxim Integrated Products (introduces the MAX16841, an offline LED driver that provides flicker-free dimming from maximum light intensity down to zero intensity with both leading-edge (triac) and ...

Maxim Integrated would like to highlight its MAX16841, an offline LED driver that provides flicker-free dimming from maximum light intensity down to zero intensity with both leading-edge (triac) and ...

Halloween is coming and [Paulo] decided to make some flickering jack-o-lanterns by hijacking the flickering circuit of a cheap LED tea light to drive a much more powerful light! He has tons of old 12V ...