The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. Consider, for example, ...

I'm trying to dim LED strips, approximately 30ft in length, with hand controls. I've found that regular potentiometers (those sold by Adafruit) max out at about 0.2 W. For whatever reason, the Red ...

In part one of this series, we looked at the basics of LED lighting sources and their driving requirements. In part two, we discussed why a constant-current buck converter should be your first ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. EXPONENTIAL GROWTH of LED lighting has ushered in a vast selection of integrated circuit devices to provide controlled ...