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Circuits Designed by Dave Johnson, P.E. :
  • Simple WHITE LED NIGHT LIGHT
    This simple circuit is designed to plug into a standard AC electrical outlet.  It uses four super bright white light emitting diodes (LED) in conjunction with a capacitor coupled full wave rectifier circuit. The LEDs are mounted in a box and are angled slightly to bounce the light off of a nearby wall.  The light should last about 10 years.  The circuit draws less than one half of one watt of power and can therefore run continuously.  In spite of the low power, the LEDs provide sufficient illumination for most night light applications.  Circuit component values for both 120vac and 240vac are shown.
  • Super Bright 3v Powered LED Flasher
    I have posted several kinds of LED flashers over the years.  This is yet one more flasher, designed to flash any high power LED of any color.  It hits the LED with a 25ms 250ma pulse once every 2 seconds.  This works out to an average current about 3ma.  It is powered by any 3v source.  I suggest two AA cells but a single 3v lithium coin type cell will also work.  With fresh AA cells, the light should flash for about two weeks.  The light flash is very intense and is perfect for any attention getting night time application.....
 

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Single & Two Cell White LED Drivers Without Inductors -  The operating voltage of white LEDs coupled with my emotional need for low cost for a given function, motivates me to make LED drivers suitable for battery operated lanterns that can run from a small number of cells. White and Ultraviolet LEDs.....(schematic / circuit added 6/07)
Single cell flashes white LED -  11-Dec-03 Issue of EDN  Many portable appliances and other products that must operate from a single cell are restricted to working at very low voltages. It is thus difficult to drive white LEDs .... [Design Idea by Anthony Smith, Scitech, Biddenham, Bedfordshire, UK]
Single cell LED flashlight -  A driver circuit for high efficiency white LEDs that runs on....[Manfred Mornhinweg]
Single cell lights any LED -  5-Jul-01 Issue of EDN  The circuit in Figure 1 allows you to light any type of LED from a single cell whose voltage ranges from 1 to 1.5V.  This range accommodates alkaline, carbon-zinc, NiCd, or NiMH single cells...... [Design Idea by Al Dutcher, Al Labs, West Deptford, NJ]
Single Cell TPS61041 LED Driver Slva136.Htm, 1 Kb -  TI Application Note  (added 2/06)
Single FET Controls 2nd LED Array in Switchmode LED Backlight -  Maxim APP1871: Feb03,2003 / (app note added 5/08) -A design in which the display is backlit (or frontlit) for extended periods needs an efficient circuit that drives the LEDs with a controlled current, and eliminates the wasted power associated with current-limiting resistors. A switch-mode boost design that regulates current instead of voltage accomplishes this purpose.
Single FET Controls LED Array -  04/12/01 EDN-Design Ideas.....White-LED backlights are gaining acceptance because they offer higher reliability and simpler drive circuitry than backlights based on CCFL (cold-cathode-fluorescent-lamp] and EL (electroluminescent] technology. As a result, white-LED backlights are increasingly common in PDAs (personal digital assistants], cell phones, digital cameras, and other portable devices. A design..... [Design Idea by Len Sherman, Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA]
Single LED flasher -  Flashing a LED should not require a complex circuit. A reverse biased transistor does the job in a nice way. Circuit "a" flashes the LED twice a second: changing the capacitor and/or the resistor will change the frequency, also the supply voltage.....(added 9/07)
Single LED Indicates Two Power States -  12/05/96 EDN-Design Ideas..... Uses a single bicolor LED to indicate both power-on and blown-fuse conditions.… [Design Idea by Jim Hagerman, Hagerman Technology, San Diego, CA]
Single-port pin drives dual LED -  13-Oct-05 Issue of EDN  Single-line LED driving can be versatile..... [Design Idea by Tom Gay, Dornstadt, Germany; Edited by Brad Thompson and Fran Granville]
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