LED Driver 101

Welcome to the first episode of Driver ED - a Youtube channel from Applied Concepts, Inc. (ACI) detailing technical and practical concepts related to LED Drivers and LCD Backlighting. In our first Episode, LED Driver 101, we cover the fundamental principles behind our I-Drive product line and how the most efficient ways to drive LEDs.

Stay tuned for future videos covering our entire line of LED Drivers, Modified High-Bright & NVIS LED Displays, CCFL Inverters, and other products we manufacture. We will discuss how to integrate our products, troubleshooting, as well as other interesting topics and technologies related to LEDs and specifically LED Backlighting.

[brandonbentley]

I'm coming from the laser hobbyists camp...if your driver isn't employed at all(direct current ungoverned or regulated) or is set at the wrong current your laser diode will blow. Love how you showed that at first you had to over come the initial leds forward voltage to get it to glow then showed the very small window it operates in and how the current flow increased.

[CuthbertNibbles]

"Driver Ed"

Love it. Awesome video, thanks!

[nickbelanger]

Very straightforward, easy to understand, and helpful thanks!

[louiestark]

Excellent video, the display with the meters made it very clear

[talessomensi-inel]

Thank you. That's a good lesson and you've got good teaching skills.

[richardhead]

Hello Sir, please consider wearing a lapel mic to avoid room echo, and to increase clarity. Thank you!

[carlpeterson]

I have a 14ft x 14 ft ceiling soffit with 12 4ft T8 fluorescent lamps on a dimmer. I would like to convert the fluorescent to LED's. The LED conversion is simple, but, the dimming is the question. What would be required to properly dim these LED's ? These fixtures are single tube T8's

[jctjepkema]

is pablo escobar discovering different carreer options?

[gilbertjuly]

Good video! A question is: how does a 12v LED driver IC produce a 120v forward voltage (Vf in the video ) for the LED string? I know there are some boost thecnologies, but 12v -> 120v seems a very high boost.

[salehpaz]

great video! you explained it great! Looking forward to seeing more videos from you.

[MaximosPagkalos]

I came across a phenomena, I found tree dumped led lights, inside, a separate driver, the led lamps are connected in series and parallel, the burnt diodes though were located, on each parallel line and one higher than the other on the series line and on separateparallel line as if indicatingthe high voltage path, amazing! Is this because a surge is a separate voltage frequency! Why didn't the first sets of diodes burn on either end instead, or all diodes?

[mrbennotmrban]

Good quality educational Video, Get excited to learn more, but Unfortunately it only one video in the channel

[garybaris]

First and only video???? What happened?

[JBattler]

Hopefully other videos will be more thorough than this one. Do you need a specific driver for each output voltage? 12 V in...but 120 v out....What if you needed 100 out?

[AlanBricking-su]

Double the voltage double the current ?

[intravena]

Is there a negative consequence if my LEDs are 2.5m away from the LED Driver?

[sadeemostofa]

Hello I need help for led driver,
my current Kitchen chandelier led driver is bad and need to replace with new one, the configuration of bad one is:
Input AC 90-265V 50/60Hz
Output: 83-120VDC, current 260mA (Constant)
Power: 25-36X1W

The new one I got in the market:
Input: AC85-277V 50/60Hz
Output: Voltage 60-120VDC, Current 300mA (Constant)
Power 20-36 W Watt
Can you tell me should I use new led driver (which is 40mA more) in my Kitchen led chandelier. Your advice will be highly appreciated.
Thanks

[TheMcdrewb]

i liked this...shame u didn't continue

[SsDiBoi]

Regulates on current and not fixed voltages

[DarrenHedlund]

So if I have a DC 5V 60A 300W PSU and two strips of LEDs (WS2812B ) 5V would this blow my lights?