Practical Lighting Design with LEDs

The essential how-to guide to designing and building LED systems, revised and updated  The second edition of Practical Lighting Design with LEDs has been revised and updated to provide the most current information for developing light-emitting diodes products. The authors, noted authorities in the field, offer a review of the most relevant topics including optical performance, materials, thermal design and modeling and measurement. Comprehensive in scope, the text covers all the information needed to design LEDs into end products.  The user-friendly text also contains numerous drawings and schematics that show how things such as measurements are actually made, and show how circuits actually work. Designed to be practical, the text includes myriad notes and illustrative examples that give pointers and how-to guides on many of the book's topics. In addition, the book’s equations are used only for practical calculations, and are kept at the level of high-school algebra. This thoroughly expanded second edition offers: New chapters on the design of an LED flashlight, USB light, automotive taillight, and LED light bulbs A practical and user-friendly guide with dozens of new illustrations The nitty-gritty, day-to-day engineering and systems used to design and build complete LED systems An essential resource on the cutting-edge technology of Light-Emitting Diodes Practical Lighting Design with LEDs helps engineers and managers meet the demand for the surge in usage for products using light-emitting diodes with a practical guide that takes them through the relevant fields of light, electronic and thermal design.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS IX PREFACE XI FIGURES XIII CHAPTER 1 PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO LEDs 1 CHAPTER 2 LIGHT BULBS AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS 13 CHAPTER 3 PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO LIGHT 25 CHAPTER 4 PRACTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LEDs 43 CHAPTER 5 PRACTICAL THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF LEDs 57 CHAPTER 6 PRACTICAL THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF LEDs 65 CHAPTER 7 PRACTICAL DC DRIVE CIRCUITRY FOR LEDs 75 CHAPTER 8 PRACTICAL AC DRIVE CIRCUITRY FOR LEDs 91 CHAPTER 9 PRACTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN WITH LEDs 121 CHAPTER 10 PRACTICAL DESIGN OF AN LED FLASHLIGHT 135 CHAPTER 11 PRACTICAL DESIGN OF A USB LIGHT 161 CHAPTER 12 PRACTICAL DESIGN OF AN AUTOMOTIVE TAIL LIGHT 185 CHAPTER 13 PRACTICAL DESIGN OF AN LED LIGHT BULB 207 CHAPTER 14 PRACTICAL MEASUREMENT OF LEDs AND LIGHTING 225 CHAPTER 15 PRACTICAL MODELING OF LEDs 245 REFERENCES 267 INDEX 269