Offline LED Driver for Street Lighting With an Optimized Cascade Structure

This paper presents a converter structure applied to supply high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from the ac line in a street lighting system, based on the reduced redundant power processing principle. To guarantee high power factor and low harmonic distortion for the input ac current, a buck-boost operating in discontinuous conduction mode is employed as a power factor corrector. The second converter of the structure controls the current on the LED string, but it does not process all the power. This is done by summing the voltages of the first with the second converters. Avoiding the double processing of the power, the efficiency is improved. In addition to that, the capacitance value of the first converter is dramatically reduced by increasing the ripple limits, making possible the use of film capacitors to increase the life span of the system. The power and control designs are shown in detail. A laboratory prototype, with a rated power of 75 W for a rated input voltage of 220 Vrms, was built to show the feasibility of the idea.

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