DRIVER FOR SOLID STATE LIGHT SOURCES

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for providing an adaptive and scalable output drive current by a lighting driver, which helps mitigate issues related to binning of solid state light sources. The disclosed techniques may be implemented, for example, with the use of header pins and one or more jumpers or so-called shunt connectors. This allows for a given driver with a constant current output to provide any number of desired output drive currents on demand, by switching and/or adding and/or removing one or more shunt connectors across the appropriate header pins. The header may include any number of pin-pairs, with each pin-pair capable of receiving a shunt connector. Any number of driver topologies may be implemented with the header, such as flyback, buck, boost, buck-boost, and variants thereof.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving input power at a light driver circuit comprising a plurality of output channels, wherein the plurality of output channels comprises a first output channel and a second output channel; setting an output current for at least a first output channel and a second output channel in the plurality of output channels by using a respective multi-pin header block, such that an output current of the first output channel of the light driver circuit is set by using a first multi-pin header block and an output current of the second output channel of the light driver circuit is set by using a second multi-pin header block; and providing the output current of the first output channel to a first light source and the output current of the second output channel to a second light source.