You might consider putting a filter inductor in series with your LEDs. That would smooth the current through them and reduce flicker. If V is the voltage your PWM switches between (in volts), I is the current your LED string draws when on (in amps), and t is the time period of the PWM...
This is not very helpful, but typically dimmers don't use rheostats -- it's terribly inefficient. They use some form of chopping the power supplied to the light, with a triac or pulse-width modulator. That way the control element is always fully on or off so it doesn't use any power.
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Hi Darrell,
Thanks for your careful explanation. It's not intuitive that core loss would depend on D (at least to my intuition), but I can see how splitting the problem into + and - V partitions could lead to it. I'll draw some waveforms and see if I can improve my intuition.
The square wave...
Hello folks,
I'm looking for a way to measure core loss in RF transformers & inductors. I ran across this PhD dissertation:
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/19296/Mu_M_D_2013.pdf
which looks thorough and practical, but I'm having trouble understanding some of it. I've...
Yes, it all depends on what you're driving. I asserted that "changing N doesn't change E" because I was assuming E was the fixed source. In that case, changing N changes B instead.
Thanks for your help & insight!
I don't quite agree with this. Faraday's Law describes a relationship between voltage and flux; it doesn't decree which comes first. If you apply a voltage across an inductor a flux will result, and vice versa.
Anyway, I ground through the algebra and satisfied myself that the two expressions...
Well, I'll be darned! I set up a hypothetical inductor in MathCad and calculated B both ways, and it comes out the same when I vary E, N, or f. In this example I'm applying E across the inductor and calculating I, but it would work the other way around too. There is a slight numerical...
Yes, I'm assuming sinusoidal E and I. I'm not sure I follow the rest of your first paragraph. E and I are the voltage and current in the inductor at a given frequency and operating condition, and calculating B from one or the other gives different results.
H in the middle of a loop is...
There are two ways to approach calculating B: by inductor voltage E or by current I. The voltage formula is B = E / (k * Ae * N * f) and the current formula involves calculating H = (N * I) / (path length) and determining B from H * mu or a material hysteresis curve.
The problem is these often...
