DOB LED Lights
A DOB "driver-on-board" LED light is an LED lighting system (either an LED bulb or an LED luminaire) that incorporates a light engine (driver-integrated LED assembly intended to operate directly on line voltage power) with an integrated on-board driver. In conventional LED lighting systems the driver is typically separated from the LED assembly and fabricated on an FR4 printed circuit board (PCB). This configuration is based on the consideration that LED drivers have been dominantly designed as switching mode power supplies. SMPS drivers typically make use of bulky, expensive and unreliable reactive components such as inductors and capacitors. The use of reactive components necessitates a dedicated FR4 board which provide adequate routing layers for component interconnects. In an integrated lighting system, the considerable volume of a typical SMPS driver creates a need for an adequate space within the lighting system in order to accomm...