25 Volt LED?

I was curious if anyone knew of a vendor who makes/sells high voltage LEDs. I have a 25 volt power supply, and for various reasons don't want to step down the voltage to ~12 volts with a voltage regulator.

If it helps, or makes a difference, I'm looking for an IR led with a wavelength of about 830 nanometers, but would like to hear of any suggestions that people have for LED vendors.

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Holden hbonwit04 at yahooDOTcom

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Holden Bonwit
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All IR led's have about the same inherent voltage drop, 1.2 volts or so. Just add a series resistor.

John

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w_tom

Seriously, even if such a high voltage LED existed, you would need to current regulate, since the forward drop will change with temperature. Ideally, you need to get an LED with drive electronics built in. 25v units are quite common, since trucks use nominally 24v electronics, and many now use LED rear lights, and instrument panel lights like this. Many are made by SLi

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and Agilent, but these companies rarely do IR LEDs, so it does make a large difference that this is the frequency band needed. You don't say what sort of brightness you require. Remember also, that you can series connect several LED's, and minimise the resistance that has to be used. So (for instance), you could series connect perhaps 9 IR LEDs, and then have perhaps a 25R resistor to limit the current (you would need to check the typical forward voltage at the rated current, but normally this is about 2.4v, for the AIGaAs/GaAS Technology normally used at this frequency). This would be for a 100mA rated LED, like the QLD-830-100S. Some of the LED manufacturers do offer small switch mode drive modules that will cover this voltage range.

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Roger Hamlett

Quantum physics dictates that LED voltage is related to wavelength -- about

1.8 volts for red, 3.6 volts for blue, 4 volts for ultraviolet (the white ones are ultraviolet plus a phosphor).

All LEDs require current-limiting resistors. There are no 12-volt LEDs either; LED lamps that run on 12 volts have the resistors built in.

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Michael A. Covington

The operating voltage of a single LED is typically around 1.6 Volts. This is determined by semiconductor physics.

You can run a single LED by adding a series resistor which sets the current. It wastes most of the power in the resistor though.

You could run, say, 12 LEDs in series ( operating voltage approx 19.2 V ) and lose less power in the current limiting resistor.

'LED lamps' use multiple LEDs like this. A.C. versions also require a rectifier to provide DC to the LEDs. LEDs only work with current flowing in one direction, so need D.C. current.

In short, there is no *high voltage LED* ( except several LEDs in series ) - you have to work within the constraints of science.

'Clever circuitry' can be used to optimise efficiency - but you're clearly not operating in this region of expertise.

Graham

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Pooh Bear

The formula for calculating the resistor to use for current limiting is:

R = Supply voltage - Forward voltage drop of LED -------------------------------------------- Desired current

Example:

R = 5V - 1.6V = 3.4 = 340 Ohms (330 Ohms will do fine [standard value]) ---------- ---- 10 MA .010

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Dave_S

Maybe an X-ray LED will run at 24V. ;-)

Or a combination of series LEDs and a resistor, or (if efficiency is critical) a switched mode regulator. I've seen some app notes for LED drivers, but not having done any LED work recently, I can't lay my hands on the part numbers as quickly as a good search engine might.

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I got some ultrabright whites the other day. Not much info on 'em, though. Typical values only given; no maximums. Vfwd was 3.4V; Ifwd was 30mA. Can anyone hazard a guess as to what the *do not exceed* figures might be? They tend to draw more current as they get hotter and when bunched close together and they do generate quite a bit of heat. I'm worried I might exceed the 30mA (typ.) figure by too much and blow 'em.

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Paul Burridge

At least some white ones are blue and a phosphor and have a drop of about

3.5V.
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Ken Smith

Wow! So many responses saying LED is not possible. Any low voltage incandescent indicator lamp - any voltage AC or DC - is sold as an LED from

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and from other companies. They require the lamp number and whether power will be AC or DC. That's it.

Many decades ago, an L1011 crashed > I was curious if anyone knew of a vendor who makes/sells high voltage

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w_tom

Not the voltage of the aircraft, and probably not the voltage going to the socket, but they certainly had to change the voltage going to the diode(s) proper (said circuitry would likely be part of the LED assembly, if they wanted it to be a "drop-in" replacement).

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It's worth getting Kingbright's LED Application Note, it has current/voltage curves & max specs for most led chemistries, plus tips on fitting, soldering, etc.

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The 3 white types they produce are each 30mA max If, though you can go considerably higher by pulsing them. But heat is still the problem.

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You should also have thermal resistance data and maximum junction temperature. At least most of these figures are similar enough for "usual" 5 mm LEDs - the thermal resistance from the junction to 5 mm outside the case on the lead that the chip is mounted to is generally around 250 degrees C per watt. Temperature rise of the chip above the temperature at that point is thermal resistance times the amount of power being dissipated in the chip. If you want really long life, have the junction temperature not exceed

85 degrees C. If you can tolerate a shorter life, it's OK to go up to around 100, maybe 110 degrees C or so.

Note that the junctions in a cluster lamp can sometimes get that hot at less than 30 mA through each LED.

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Don Klipstein

The point is that LED assemblies have long been made as a replacement for any incandescent indicator lamp. Same even for traffic lights whereby LEDs now replace incandescent lamps.

The original poster wants an LED light that can operate at

25 volts. Do they make same incandescent lamp replacements for 830 nm LEDs? I don't know. But back when we were first purchasing these incandescent lamp replacements, they were willing to do any existing LED color as a replacement for any incandescent lamp. Often these assemblies contain four or more LEDs meaning they also have good intensity.

LED replacement have l> w_tom wrote:

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w_tom

Foe real bright LEDs look at "Luxeon Star LED" they are super.

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Don

LEDs are current, not voltage driven. In other words, you need a current limiting resistor in series with the LED. You can calculate the resistance required by (Vin - Vled)/ current, current is usually 20 mA. If the voltage is likely to change, or if you are to lazy to do the calculation, use a FET as constant current source, I have posted the schematic here a couple of times, use google.

You can also buy LEDs with that FET integrated on the chip, these work on any DC source up to 30 V.

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