Design and Performance Evaluation of an Automatic Dimmable Fault-Adaptive LED Driver Circuit

Abstract

In this paper, an automatic, fault-adaptive, and dimmable LED driver circuit and LED lamp module is designed and simulated. The designed LED driver can automatically operate and dim (18–72) W LED modules assembled with unknown series-parallel combination of 3 W LED chips on universal AC input (Vrms=(90–265) V, 50/60 Hz). The unique feature of the modelled LED driver circuit is its ability to monitor and detect failure of any connected LED chip and then adapt to provide optimised light output from the LED modules under faulty conditions. The proposed LED driver circuit and LED lamp module are simulated in MATLAB Simulink environment to evaluate the electrical performance. The operation of the simulated LED driver circuit from 100 % to 30 % of rated light output and during occurrence of fault is satisfactory and in compliance with IEC61000–3–2:2014 and IEEE Standard P1789. Input power factor of the simulated LED driver ranges from 0.74 to 0.99, THD from 3.33 % to 30.63 %, and output current ripple from 4.6 % to 20 % under operation of all connected LED modules.