LED Display Circuit

Physicians and repair engineers often use small light pens for visual examination Spurposes. Rugged and expensive as these pens may be, their weak point is the bulb, which is a ‘serviceable’ part. In practice, that nearly always equates to ‘expensive’ and / or ‘impossible to find’ when you need one. LEDs have a much longer [...]

If you’ve ever tried dimming a LED with a simple potentiometer, you know that the approach does not work very well. Just as with ordinary diodes, the voltage-current characteristic of LEDs is far from linear. The result – depending on the potentiometer setting the LED brightness will hardly change most of the time as the [...]