Custom geometries solutions for lighting industry - Energy
The lighting industry has experienced some rather large shifts in the past 10 years. For a century the incandescent bulb was the standard for lighting but as the manufacturing capabilities for fluorescent bulbs improved the use of incandescent bulbs waned, but was still prevalent. But today both of those lighting methods have been dramatically overtaken by the prevalence of Light Emitting Diodes (LED). Today, LED’s are available in a wide variety of standard shapes, color levels, and intensities. LED’s provide a more energy efficient and reliable light source which is actually more of a system than just the bulb it had replaced. That system includes the actual light emitting diode, the package, and a driver circuit that includes an inductor for energy storage and power conversion.
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Micrometals Powder Cores play a critical role in the efficient conversion of this electrical power to light. OEM lighting manufacturers trust Micrometals cores extensively to deliver noise-free operation, especially in LED dimmer switch applications, dimmer circuits, AC Input filters, PFC and DC-DC converters.
Even traditional florescent lighting systems, like those prevalent in offices and commercial building around the world, use inductors for voltage scaling. This includes inductors for AC Input Filters, Resonant Converters and Flyback Inductors.
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