[SOLVED] LED Driver Different Behaviour with different LED Color

Hi,

I am trying to drive single 30W chinese leds using the below circuit but using 12V vcc:



Vf of the leds are 12V and I want to keep Led curent about 2.3A. However while I can drive the white led without a problem, blue and UV leds whose specs (Vf,Iled) are identical do not drive more than 1.5A and 0.2A respectively.

When I connect the leds directly to 12V both draw nearly 3A, TPS16500 is a boost driver so i thought maybe input voltage was not enough so increased it to 15V but there is no change in the current. My supply can provide nearly 10A so I dont think its limiting the current (also white led has no problems).

I think my circuit is somehow limiting the current but I cant find the cause. The driver is not running very hot, current sense resistor is adjusted for 4A. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards

Hi,

the circuit is a step up (boost) driver... so you less input voltage than the LED voltage...

Either your overvoltage protection becomes active, or the 5V supply is overload (dropping voltage)

Klaus

Batur said:

When I connect the leds directly to 12V both draw nearly 3A, TPS16500 is a boost driver so i thought maybe input voltage was not enough so increased it to 15V but there is no change in the current

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What are the values you selected for each component of the above figure ?
Note: This is TPS61500, not TPS16500.

Sorry for the late reply, I changed the layout of the board and the problem is solved. I minimized the distance between diode and switching pins, and also made the whole bottom copper layer ground.