On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 01:23 -0700, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Herbert Graf wrote:
> > And of course, LED based lighting almost always work perfectly with
> > current dimmer solutions.
> 
> Are you assuming a purely resistive current limiter for the LEDs?

Yup.

> While that might be possible sometimes, I doubt that it will be the
> norm; most LED lamps will probably have dimmer-incompatible power
> supplies between the wall and the LEDs themselves...

Not that I've seen. Pretty much every mains powered LED module I've seen
just uses a bunch of resistors to limit the current.

And why not? It's by far the simplest solution. While it may not be the
most efficient, considering how little power they need most
manufacturers don't seem to think the added efficiency is worth the
added cost.

TTYL
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