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Designing Current circuit for 64 leds

Hi everyone

Dealing with leds..I have few questions.I am trying to make matrix of

64 leds,common anode and darlington pair are used as current sinks for individual leds. leds at 5v@25ma of current. I need to design a power supply which will be enough to supply 64 leds i.e 25ma x 64 = 1.6A of current + say 100ma for other circuitary on board .Now the leds are addressed individually there is no row or column matrix.i.e the leds are in parallel.

For how much output current should i design the power supply? 1.7A ? or how much...and I will be using a resistor in series with led to limit the current to 25ma for each led. and max vf for led is 3.4v. As leds are in parallel 1.7A will get distributed among 64leds

+circuitrary( i.e led controllers)?

what will happen if i design for say 3A but the leds are limited to

25ma?I am not sure how this current distribution works.for parallel leds.and what output current should i design my powersupply circuitary?.can u give me your inputs plz . Thanks Everest
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Everest
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25mA for each LED is on the upper limit - if you are using red LEDs you can pretty much halve this and still get a good brightness - play about with different currents that give acceptable brightness and you might be able to get the total current under an amp in which case as 1Amp regulator (7805) will do very nicely. If you still need a lot of current, use an LM323 (3A) power reg or a 5.6v Zener to bias the base for an emitter follower with a power tranny (nice and simple but bomb-proof), the ubiquitous 2N3055 works very well in this config ( or the smaller 2N3054) but will get hot as the current goes up and its a big case with a big heatsink - consider using something like a TIP122 darlington power tranny - this will sustain 5A and surge 8! It's a smaller package and due to it's operation and construction will need only a small clip on heatsink.
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feebo

You can buy a regulated output power supply cheaper than you can build one. CAT# PS-528 ($5.75) from Allelectronics will work for you. It's a 5V DC 2 amp regulated wall wart style switching power supply.

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You certainly don't need darlingtons to control the LEDs individually. Any jellybean NPN will work. With a Vf of

3.4, put an 82 ohm resistor in series with each LED for about 19.5 mA, or use 68 ohms for about 24 mA.

Ed

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ehsjr

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