The Globe and Mail

My new LED bulbs don’t work with the DRL function. Can I fix it so my headlights aren’t on all the time?

I drive a 2006 Nissan Xterra that came from the factory with halogen, lo/hi combined headlight bulbs with a DRL setting. After 18 years of using the old factory halogens, lightening in all driving ...
EDN

Capacitor selection helps achieve long lifetimes for LED lights

This presentation was originally given by Andrew Smith, product manager, LED Lighting at Power Integrations for EDN’s May 2011 live LED event in San Jose. Consumers often see LED lamp failures. If you ...
Electronics Weekly

Choosing the right capacitor for LED designs

Guest columnist Naoyuki Kobayashi, senior product manager at Murata says that one problem frequently encountered when designing LED lighting circuits is that the capacitors in the circuit experience ...
Hackaday

light dependent capacitor

The function of an LED is to emit light when the device is forward biased within its operating range, and it’s known by most people that an LED can also operate as a photodiode. Perhaps some readers ...