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Basic diagram and sample design
lamp has 48 LED - 3W/230V
Capacitive power supply
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A capacitive power supply is a type of power
supply that uses the capacitive reactance of a
capacitor to reduce the mains voltage to a lower
voltage. There are two important limitations:
First, the high features requested from the
capacitor allow them to be used only in low
energy applications. The second is that due to
the absence of electrical insulation, the circuit
must be encapsulated and isolated to avoid
direct contact with the users.
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Contents
1 Structure
2 Example
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Structure
A capacitive power supply comprises a Capacitor C1 , that with its reactance limits the current flowing through
the rectifier bridge D1 . To protect against voltage spikes during switching operations, there is a Resistor R1
connected in series with it. An electrolytic capacitor C2 it's used to smooth the DC voltage and the peak
current (in the range of amps) in switching operations. Below you can see, a voltage regulator, which is formed
by the current limiting resistor R3 and the linear regulator IC1. If the voltage stability is not too important you
can use a Zener diode as a regulator.
Example
By changing the value of the example in the diagram by a capacitor
with a value of 330 nF, we can provide a current of 20 mA, this way
you can power up to 48 white LEDs (eg 3.1 V/20mA/20000mcd) -
that is provided connected in series. The image, however, shows the
open lamp LED 48 diodes party. The 1.2 UF capacitor has a
reactance of 2.6 Kohm which limits the current to 90 mA. LEDs are
connected in parallel with the electrolytic filter capacitor 10F. The
four branches with 12 LEDs consume about 20 mA each. The diodes
limit the voltage to about 40V per branch. Since, normally, the circuit
is connected directly to the network without galvanic isolation, we
need a switch in any type of protection circuit used for this kind of
LED light.
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See also
Backup power supply
Linear power supply
Power supply
Railway electrification system
References
1. ^ Low cost PSUcapacitor instead of the transformer (http://www.elektronik-
kompendium.de/public/schaerer/cpowsup.htm)
External links
Microchip-00954a (http://histo.cat/1/Microchip-00954a.pdf)
Description of the capacitor Wima MKP Metallized page (http://Www.wima.de/DE/metallizedpulse.htm)
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