Showing posts with label led driver chip. Show all posts
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Five LED Driver Chip Debugging Techniques

1.      High temperature of chip
This is mainly for high-voltage of the built-in power modulator driver IC. If the current consumption of the IC is 2mA, 300V voltage is applied above the chip, the chip's power consumption is 0.6 W. It will certainly cause the high temperature above the chip. The maximum current of the driver chip is from drive power consumption of the MOS tube. So think about better heat sink.

2.      Power tube high temperature
Power consumption of the power tube is divided into two parts which are switching loss and conduction loss. Note that most of the occasion especially LED electric drive applications, switching damage is much larger than the conduction loss. So try to reduce the frequency, however, you need to know that when the frequency is reduced, in order to obtain the same load capacity, the peak current is bound to large or inductance becomes large, which are likely to cause the inductor into saturation region. If the inductor saturation current is large enough, you can consider the CCM (continuous current mode) to change into DCM (discontinuous current mode), so you need to add a load capacitance.