You swap a warm old incandescent for a shiny new LED, turn the dimmer down for dinner, and the room starts to hum or pulse. It's a familiar letdown, and it usually has nothing to do with a faulty bulb ...

The Switch-to-Dim version of Feit's IntelliBulb is a bright, efficient 60W replacement option with three distinct brightness settings and a strong quality of light. The IntelliBulb isn't quite as good ...

Solid-state lighting (SSL) differs from conventional lighting in that it uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) instead of filaments, plasma, or gases. Although still relatively early in its development, ...

Dim a bulb down to 50%, and you might only get 25% of the lumens you'd get at full blast. And guess what? That's a good thing. “Alexa, set the lights to 50%.” I use voice commands like that to control ...

I made this dimmer circuit because I have a cheap chinese LED lamp that doesn’t have the option to dim its light. It is a simple PWM dimmer built with the well-knows 555 integrated circuit and a power ...

Dimming has been a constant challenge of LED lighting for years and digital dimmers are particularly problematic. Power is an issue, for example. With digital technology the MPU needs approximately 20 ...

Fairchild announced the FL7734 Phase-Cut Dimmable Single- Stage LED Driver, a highly integrated LED controller solution for low-cost, and highly reliable LED lighting solutions from 5 W to 30 W. The ...

For shoppers, the practical takeaway is simple: the words "local dimming" on a spec sheet or an in-store sign are not, on ...