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A project log for Darkstar Mk.II

High power custom caving headlamp you can rely on. Small, not that heavy, water and bomb proof.

jakub-kaderkaJakub Kaderka 04/29/2017 at 20:540 Comments

So it's time to measure how it behaves on electrical side of things:

First the efficiency, it depends on the current of course and the power supply voltage. It's pretty good, over 90 % for currents higher than 0,5 A for the whole power supply voltage. The efficiency is topping at 96,9 %!

The frequency side is similar, the buck driver frequency depends on the voltage difference and absolute value of input voltage, from almost 250 kHz it drops to 0 when voltage difference between led and power supply is under 100 mV:

The current through LED looks like:

And the voltage in switching point (where diode, transistor and coil are connected together):

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