My new house is a fixer-upper, and on the to-do list were two dimmer switches that did not work. One fed overhead lights; the other fed the lamp in a ceiling fan. Once I pulled the ceiling fan dimmer, ...

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 ...

Figure 284.1 shows a complete LED driver solution. The LT3799 senses the output current from the primary side switch current waveform. Where I PK is the peak switch current, N is the primary to ...