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VIN(max)

. Often a 20% difference in capacitance could be observed between like

capacitors. Therefore a voltage rating margin of 25% should be considered.

Once the line drops below 50% of its peak voltage, the two capacitors are essentially placed in

parallel. The bus voltage V

IN(min) is the lowest voltage value at the input of the buck converter. VIN(min)

at the minimum AC line voltage V

ac(min) is,

Vac

ac(min)

IN(min)

At 60Hz, the total time of a half AC line cycle is 8.33ms. The power to the buck converter is derived

from the valley-fill capacitors when the AC line voltage is equal to or less than 50% of its peak voltage.

The hold up time for the capacitors equates to

tHOLD

. The valley-fill capacitor

value can then be calculated,

DROOP

HOLD

(min)

out

TOTAL

Therefore,

. V

DROOP is the voltage droop on the capacitors when they are delivering full

power to the buck converter. Ideally VDROOP should be set to less than

(max)

LED

(min)

DROOP

−

order to ensure continuous LED conduction at low line voltage. Nevertheless, V

DROOP is set to be 20V

in the design example to avoid the need for very large valley-fill electrolytic capacitor.

A 20V V

DROOP implies that the bus voltage VIN at the input of buck converter will drop to 40V during

part of the AC line cycle. As the buck regulator requires V

IN to be greater than the LED stack voltage

LED(max)=59V) for regulation, the LED will be off during part of the AC line cycle. This has the effect of

reducing the actual output LED current at low AC input voltage. In the design example, the LED

current drops by approximately 20% from its nominal value at 85Vac (see Figure 4).

Setting the fixed off-time and switching frequency range

For fixed off-time operation, the switching frequency will vary subjected to the actual input voltage and

output LED conditions.

A nominal switching frequency f

swi(nom) should be chosen. A high nominal switching frequency will

result in smaller inductor size, but could lead to increased switching losses in the circuit. A good

design practice is to choose a nominal switching frequency knowing that the switching frequency will

decrease as the line voltage drops and increases as the line voltage increases.

The fixed off-time t

OFF can be computed as,

55kHz

230V

54V

swi(nom)

ac(nom)

LED(nom)

off

The off-time is programmed by timing resistor R

T as shown in Figure 1. The value of RT is given by,

()

( )

−

326

OFF

A 330kΩ is selected for R

T. Next, the two extremes of the variable switching frequency can be

approximated as,

kHz

OFF

(min)

(max)

LED

swi(min)

−

kHz

373

OFF

(max)

(min)

LED

swi(max)

−

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