5 Important Factors When Buying LED Drivers

LED drivers (also known as LED power supplies ) are similar to ballasts for fluorescent lamps or transformers for low-voltage bulbs: they provide LEDs with the correct power supply to function and perform at their best. If you read our previous article on whether or not your LED requires a driver, you’ll already know that all LEDs require a driver and that the question you should really be asking is whether or not your LED requires an external driver . You’ll also know that there are two main kinds of external LED drivers , constant-current and constant-voltage, and that the driver you need depends on whether or not your LED light source already includes a constant-current driver within the light (if so, you would need a constant-voltage driver ; if not, you need a separate constant-current driver ). Now that you’re certain your LED light requires an external driver as well as what type, it's time to narrow down to the spe...