One of the biggest challenges for new, energy-efficient CFL and LED-based lights that will replace incandescents is working with existing triac-based dimmer switches. Triac dimmers vary widely in both ...

New Matter-enabled Mirror and Dimmer Switch introduce physical control interfaces, while the Everyday line brings LIFX color ...

The lighting industry has relied on the incandescentbulb for more than a century, and,over the last 50 years, the phase dimmer hasbecome the main dimming control. Standardforward-phase, or TRIAC ...

Abstract: A novel TRIAC dimming LED driver that can control the brightness of LED arrays for a wide range of source voltage variation is proposed. Contrary to conventional PWM LED drivers, proposed ...

As environmental concerns over traditional lighting increase and the price of LEDs decreases, high power LEDs are fast becoming a popular lighting solution for offline applications. In order to meet ...

The LYTSwitch-3 LED driver ICs from Power Integrations provide high dimming performance with both leading-edge and trailing-edge TRIAC dimmers, and support both isolated and non-isolated topologies.

Lights are an integral part of any home. With lighting being some of the important components in any home, users might be tempted to spice things up a little bit. Smart home systems are only now ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. Uses a generic optoisolated triac module to ramp up the brightness of the load (leds in my case) starting ...