This circuit is pretty efficient and it can power a 1 watt white led quite brightly.
1 watt led driver circuit.
C1 together with the inductor l0 and c2 make up a pie filter network for cacelling emi disturbenaces.
Once you have understood the circuit you can calculate the current rating required for your led and build it on a breadboard to test it.
The image to the right shows an example.
For making 350ma you must sink 350ma from source.
It can be directly driven from any domestic 220v ac or 120v ac mains outlets.
Using strings of 4 gets you almost 12v with a 2 9v led.
Good 1w leds are typically 350 ma at 2 9v 1 watt the rest will have higher tolerance on vf e g.
You need a constant current for turn on led and this led is power led 1 watt with 3 2 volt.
The input mains 220v or 120v ac is half wave repaired by d1 and c1.
A high efficiency greenpoint solution.
I got the concept of this circuit few years back from a led torch which was powered by a single aa battery.
The circuit working of this 1 watt to 12watt led driver may be known as presented under.
Here a simple 1 watt led driver circuit based on a modified joule thief design runs on a 1 5v single aa or aaa cell.
Configured in size and features for mr16 led replacements.
And the only way to change the led brightness is to change r3 so refer to the earlier schematic for circuit 5 which shows adding a low high power switch in.
Non isolated constant current operation.
3 4 running a 3v led from a 12v supply with a series regulator and series resistor is going to be 3 12 or 25 efficient alone.
P 1 1 1 25 1 25watts working of led driver circuit.
To wire a series circuit like the one shown the positive output from the driver connects to the positive of the first led and from that led a connection is made from the negative to the positive of the second led and so on until the last led in the circuit.
1 watt to 5 watt led driver solution for high brightness leds.
Buck boost switching regulator topology.
Auto detect function allows 12 vdc or 12 vac input while maintaining the targeted output current.
The concept it to try to determine a running current by using the inductor diode and load at the same time the switch fills up the missing load energy on a single cycle.
The simple 1 watt led driver circuit buck converter presents approximately 90 efficiency.
1 small 1 watt smps led driver in the first design which is the most recommended one we study an smps led driver circuit which can be used for driving high watt leds rated anywhere between 1 watt led upto 12 watts.
My circuit looks like as shown below after i built it on a breadboard.
So current need is 1 3 2 312ma that normal current is 350ma.