LED lightbulbs are often advertised as lasting years, sometimes even more than a decade. There's an unexpected reason they ...

Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a high-power DC/DC boost LED driver (TPS61500) and high-voltage DC/DC boost converter (TPS61175), and expanded its step-down DC/DC converter series with ...

Entering the high-voltage domain for creating more efficient LED bulbs, the latest XLamp MX-6S and MX-3S LEDs sport the same footprint as the XLamp MX-6 and MX-3 LEDs while operating at higher ...

Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G ...

Consider the lowly wall wart power adapter. It finds use in millions of electronics devices as a cost- and power-efficient ac-dc voltage-regulated power supply. In effect, designers of electronics ...

[mircemk] built a slick-looking LED tester with a couple handy functions built in. Not only can one select a target current to put through an LED, but by providing a target voltage, the system will ...

But what do these three quantities really mean? A full explanation would take a whole semester, so let me instead give a brief summary. The ΔV is the change in voltage (also sometimes just called ...