Electronics & Smart Controls

Featured | Products, Materials + Tools | Jan 22, 2016
UEL240B-A1Z：≥15 kV Surge Immunity, 3 in 1 Dimming Function
UEL240B-A1Z：≥15 kV Surge Immunity, 3 in 1 Dimming Function Since 1989 UE Electronic has been the world's leading brand of high-power LED driver power supply. Its latest developed product - UEL240B-A1Z - is a modular intelligent control constant current high power LED driver. It has 3 in 1 dimming function, high efficiency, waterproof, long lifetime etc. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 02, 2016
CapXon's LE Series of Electrolytic Capacitors Provide Ultra-Long Life
CapXon's LE Series of Electrolytic Capacitors Provide Ultra-Long Life CapXon introduces the LE series of electrolytic capacitors providing high reliability and ultra-long life in LED lighting applications. Available in the UK from Components Bureau, the products operate over an extended temperature range of -40 to +105˚C making them suitable for LED drivers powering outdoor lighting applications. This series offers a longer life alternative to the FL series used in electronic lighting ballasts and energy saving luminaires. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 15, 2016
IST's iDrive® is Driving the Li-Fi Revolution
IST's iDrive® is Driving the Li-Fi Revolution The iDrive R&D team have developed a VLC technology platform to facilitate the mass adoption of Li-Fi, which will be available to all developers and end-users. Li-Fi or Visible Light Communication (VLC) is an enabling technology providing a means of transmitting information using LED light fixtures by modulating their light at a frequency too high to be perceptible to the human eye. The advent of Li-Fi and VLC is hugely exciting because of the high data transfer rates that can be achieved and the fact that LED lighting is a huge growth market. Read more »
Featured | Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 16, 2016
Lifud Introduces Two New Series of 10 Years Warranty LED Drivers
Lifud Introduces Two New Series of 10 Years Warranty LED Drivers In March 2016, Lifud will expand its portfolio of typical LED drivers with the addition of AC220-240V 10W-63W LF-GIRxxxYJ series and AC100-277V 10W-54W LF-GIRxxxYD series. And these two series are featured by long life time, which helps customers to reduce maintenance and replacement costs. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 03, 2016
Power Integrations' New LYTSwitch-3 LED Driver ICs Support Widest Range of TRIAC Dimmers
Power Integrations' New LYTSwitch-3 LED Driver ICs Support Widest Range of TRIAC Dimmers Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-efficiency, high-reliability LED driver ICs, today announced the LYTSwitch™-3 family – the latest addition to the company’s LYTSwitch line of LED driver ICs. Ideal for bulbs, tubes and downlights up to 20 watts, LYTSwitch-3 ICs offer excellent dimming performance with both leading-edge and trailing-edge TRIAC dimmers, and support both isolated and non-isolated topologies. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 07, 2016
Dialog Semiconductor’s Flickerless™ High Power Drivers Boost Performance, Cut Size and Costs
Dialog Semiconductor’s Flickerless™ High Power Drivers Boost Performance, Cut Size and Costs Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth® Smart technology, today announced two new driver controllers for high power commercial LED lighting applications up to 90 W. In these applications flicker-free operation is essential to avoid eye stress, particularly where there is long-term exposure to the light source. Dialog’s patented Flickerless™ technology virtually eliminates flicker through digital control that achieves near-zero line frequency ripple. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 09, 2016
Thomas Research Products Introduces New High Performance T5 LED Driver
Thomas Research Products Introduces New High Performance T5 LED Driver Thomas Research Products has introduced a new high performance 75 W LED driver with a long form factor matching T5 fluorescent ballasts. Dimming capabilities (0-10V) works with controls and sensors to maximize energy savings. Thomas Research Products manufactures SSL power and control solutions. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 10, 2016
EnOcean Announces New 2.4 GHz Portfolio Enabeling Use of Self-Powered Technology Worldwide
EnOcean Announces New 2.4 GHz Portfolio Enabeling Use of Self-Powered Technology Worldwide At Light + Building 2016 (Frankfurt a. Main, March 13-18, Hall 9.0, Booth B40), EnOcean will be presenting a new self-powered product family for wireless communication in the globally usable 2.4 GHz frequency band. This adds to the company’s products in 868 MHz, 902 MHz and 928 MHz for new markets and regions. With the 2.4 GHz offering, OEMs can now realise batteryless switch applications for worldwide use. This development emphasises EnOcean’s know-how in kinetic energy harvesting based on the field-proven electromechanical energy converter ECO 200. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Dec 30, 1969
MAZeT Presented Fully Integrated Color Sensor MTCS-CDCAF at L+B
MAZeT Presented Fully Integrated Color Sensor MTCS-CDCAF at L+B MAZeT GmbH, development and manufacturing services provider for embedded systems and optoelectronics, has introduced the new MTCS-CDCAF color sensor, the first fully integrated sensor chip solution in the JENCOLOR® product line. The MTCS-CDCAF features a True Color filter function, integrated signal amplification based on charge-to-digital conversion, and an on-chip temperature sensor. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 22, 2016
Microchip Announces Two New Digitally Enhanced Analog LED Power Controllers
Microchip Announces Two New Digitally Enhanced Analog LED Power Controllers Microchip announces two new digitally enhanced power analogue controllers designed for LED lighting applications. The MCP19116 and MCP19117 increase accuracy for LED lighting and allow users to carefully control LED light output levels without sacrificing colour or light quality for reliable long-life applications. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 23, 2016
Diodes Announces New Triac-Dimmable LED Driver with Excellent Dimmer Compatibility
Diodes Announces New Triac-Dimmable LED Driver with Excellent Dimmer Compatibility Diodes Inc's new AL1697 LED driver targets line-powered, triac-dimmable LED lighting applications. This device provides compatibility with leading‑ and trailing‑edge triac dimmers using a single-stage, high power-factor dimming circuit that complies with the NEMA SSL-6 dimming curve, delivering optimal line and load regulation. This integrated MOSFET eliminates the need for an auxiliary winding, which lowers BOM cost and enables a smaller PCB, making this an attractive and competitive solution for driving LED lamps up to 15W. Read more »
Featured | Products, Materials + Tools | Apr 07, 2016
Samsung Introduces Smart Lighting Module to Simplify and Improve Connectivity in IoT Lighting Applications
Samsung Introduces Smart Lighting Module to Simplify and Improve Connectivity in IoT Lighting Applications Samsung Electronics introduced a multi-purpose Smart Lighting Module (SLM) – the most fundamental IoT building block – for the fast-growing, smart building and smart city markets. By providing the core building block for a wide variety of potential smart lighting systems, Samsung’s SLM will play a key role in speeding up system development, lowering risk, improving system quality and reducing time to market for smart lighting manufacturers. The module will be sampled with Samsung smart lighting partners and will be shipped to OEMs in April. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Apr 27, 2016
Dimming Interface IC Delivers up to 70% Reduction in Component Count
Dimming Interface IC Delivers up to 70% Reduction in Component Count Munich, Germany – April 26, 2016 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today launched the CDM10V. The compact and highly integrated LED lighting interface IC allows designers to replace many of the discrete components used in conventional dimming schemes with a single device. Thus, it can reduce the component count and PCB space needed for dimming circuitry in LED lighting applications by up to 70 percent. Infineon’s CDM10V is the industry’s first single-chip lighting interface IC capable of transforming an analog 0-10V input into a PWM or dimming input signal required by a lighting controller IC. The signal is delivered as 5 mA optocoupler-ready PWM signal with 0 to 100 percent duty cycle. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Apr 28, 2016
New CDM10V – Compact and Highly Integrated Dimming Interface IC
New CDM10V – Compact and Highly Integrated Dimming Interface IC The compact and highly integrated LED light- ing interface IC allows designers to replace many of the discrete components used in conventional dimming schemes with a single device. Thus, it can reduce the compo- nent count and PCB space needed for dimming circuitry in LED lighting applications by up to 70 percent. Infineon’s CDM10V is the industry’s first single-chip lighting in- terface IC capable of transforming an analog 0-10V input into a PWM or dimming input signal required by a lighting controller IC. The signal is delivered as 5 mA opto- coupler-ready PWM signal with 0 to 100 percent duty cycle. Read more »
Featured | Products, Materials + Tools | May 04, 2016
LIFUD ZigBee Smart LED Drivers and ZigBee Convertors
LIFUD ZigBee Smart LED Drivers and ZigBee Convertors This year LIFUD expands its product portfolio with ZigBee smart LED drivers in addition to the two series 10 years warranty LED drivers. LIFUD ZigBee smart LED drivers have already been exhibited on the March Frankfurt lighting fair in Germany as well as April San Deigo lighting fair in America. And customers show great attention to this new smart LED driver. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | May 23, 2016
High Power-Factor Buck LED Driver Meets Worldwide Retrofit Lamp Requirements
High Power-Factor Buck LED Driver Meets Worldwide Retrofit Lamp Requirements PLANO, Texas--Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic, analog and mixed-signal semiconductor markets, today announced the AL1676. This universal AC-input LED driver is designed to meet or exceed worldwide power-factor regulations for non-dimmable retrofit LED bulbs and tube lighting, providing a design that also delivers high efficiency and a low BOM cost. Options for the integrated MOSFET allow for 300V to 650V drain voltages and 1A to 4A drain currents in order to suit most 3W to 18W bulb requirements. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Jun 08, 2016
Cost and Performance Optimized Sensor-Based Control for LED Lighting Systems
Cost and Performance Optimized Sensor-Based Control for LED Lighting Systems Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting and Bluetooth® low energy technology, today announced the addition of ambient light and color sensor controls to its smart lighting platform of advanced LED drivers and Bluetooth controllers. This represents another significant milestone in the recently announced joint venture with Dyna Image as both companies continue to combine their core technologies to provide complete platform solutions. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Jun 08, 2016
Fairchild FL77944 LED Direct AC Drive Simplifies Development of Smart LED Lighting Products
Fairchild FL77944 LED Direct AC Drive Simplifies Development of Smart LED Lighting Products Fairchild, a leading global supplier of high-performance semiconductor solutions, today introduced the new FL77944, the first solution in its LED Direct AC Drive family of solid-state LED lighting solutions that manufacturers can use to easily scale power and create smart and scalable LED-based lighting products that can be smaller, have higher performance and a longer system lifetime compared to products using the switch mode power supply (SMPS) approach. Read more »
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