What is the working principle of solar powered led

pathway lights?

05/08/2021 Cecily Tags: best solar lawn lights, solar landscape

lights, solar powered led pathway lights

Solar powered led pathway lights mainly use the energy of

solar cells for work. When sunlight shines on the solar cells
during the day, the light energy is converted into electrical

energy and stored in the battery, which then turns into solar

powered led pathway lights at night by the battery. (Light

Emitting Diode) provides power. Its advantages are mainly

safety, energy saving, convenience, and environmental

protection.

Solar powered led lights light source and power system design

methods have developed rapidly in recent years due to the

unique advantages of solar led pathway lights. Solar powered

led pathway lights are small in power, mainly for decoration,

and require high mobility. In addition, circuit laying is difficult

and waterproof requirements are high. These make solar

powered led pathway lights powered by solar batteries show

many unprecedented advantages. Especially foreign markets

have huge demand for solar powered led pathway lights. In

2002, only Shenzhen used to manufacture and export solar

powered led pathway lights to consume 2MW of solar cells,

which is equivalent to 1/3 of the domestic solar cell output

that year. It still maintains a strong momentum of

development, which people did not expect. At the same time,

due to the rapid development, some products are not

technically mature enough, and there are many defects in the

selection of light sources and circuit design, which reduces the

economy and reliability of the products and wastes a lot of

resources.

According to the above analysis, we think that the Solar

powered led pathway lights below 1w has the function of

adjusting light and dark and switching frequently, so LED

should be used as the light source. However, when using

ultra-bright white light LED, special attention should be paid

to the maintenance rate of light pass, otherwise it is easy to

cause quality accidents. For the solar powered led path

lights with high power, it is more reasonable to use

trichromatic primary color high efficiency energy saving lamp

at present. What should be emphasized here is that the above

conclusion is only the current analysis, when the level of LED

technology increases, the price drops, the above conclusion

needs to be adjusted.

Improvement of efficiency of boost Circuit

Solar powered led path lights generally has boost circuit, at

present, manufacturers use concussion circuit, inductor boost

voltage. The inductor adopts the standard color code inductor,

and the open magnetic circuit is used in the standard color

code inductor. The flux loss is large, so the circuit efficiency is

low. If the closed magnetic circuit is used to make inductor

boost, such as magnetic ring, the efficiency of boost circuit will

be greatly improved. We used to make inductors with medium

10 magnetic rings and carried out comparative experiments

under the same conditions. The comparative samples are solar

powered led path lights produced by a factory in Ningbo,

Zhejiang Province and a factory in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu

Province. the efficiency of inductors made by closed magnetic

circuit is 20% higher than that by using standard color code

inductors.

The main results are as follows:

(1) the characteristics of LED are close to those of stabilized

diode, the working voltage changes 0.1 V, and the working

current may change about 20ma. In order to be safe, using

series current limiting resistance in general, the great energy

loss is obviously not suitable for solar powered led path lights,

and the brightness of LED varies with the working voltage.

Boost circuit is a good way, but also can use a simple constant

current circuit, in short, must automatically limit the current,

otherwise it will damage the LED.

(2) the peak current of the general LED is 50-100mA, the

reverse connection of the anti-high energy battery or the

no-load of the battery, when the peak voltage of the booster

circuit is too high, it is likely to exceed this limit and damage

the LED.

(3) the temperature characteristics of LED are not good, the

temperature increases by 5 C, and the luminous flux decreases

by 3%. Attention should be paid to the use in summer.

(4) the working voltage is discrete, and the working voltage of

the same model and the same batch of LED is different, so it

is not suitable to be used in parallel. -to be used in parallel,

current sharing should be considered.

(5) the color temperature of ultra-bright white light LED is

6400L ≤ 3000K. at present, the ultra-bright white light LED

with low color temperature has not yet entered the market,

so the ultra-bright white light LED. The light penetration

ability of solar lawn is poor, so we should pay attention to it

in optical design.

(6) Electroelectricity has a great influence on ultra-bright

white LED. It should be installed with antistatic facilities.

Workers should wear antistatic wrist straps. Ultra-bright

white LED damaged by static electricity can not be seen by

their eyes at that time, but its service life will become shorter.
Charge and discharge Control and temperature
compensation of Battery

Because the input energy of solar photovoltaic power

generation system is very unstable, the charge and discharge

control of solar photovoltaic power generation system is more

complex than that of ordinary battery. The success of solar

powered led path lights charge and discharge control circuit

design will determine the success of the product.

A correct control circuit should have the following functions:

prevent backcharging function, prevent overcharging function,

prevent battery overdischarge function, lead-acid battery

temperature compensation function. For solar powered led

path lights, if you use Ni-Cd battery, you do not need to

prevent battery overdischarge function, if solar cell power is

not large relative to battery, you can also do not consider to

prevent overcharging function.

This is why many solar powered led path lights currently use

Ni-Cd batteries. But if you use other batteries, consider the

above functionality.

The solar powered led pathway lights main contents are as follows:

(1) Prevent backcharging function. -generally speaking, series

a diode in the solar cell loop, the diode prevents backcharging,

this diode should. This is a Schottky diode, and the voltage

drop of the Schottky diode is lower than that of the ordinary

diode.
(2) Prevent overcharging function. A drain transistor can be

connected in series or in parallel in the input loop, and the

voltage identification circuit controls the switch of the

transistor. The excess solar cell energy is discharged through

the transistor to ensure that there is no excessive voltage to

charge the battery. The key is to prevent the selection of

overcharge voltage, the single lead-acid battery is 2.2V.

(3) In addition to Ni-Cd batteries, other batteries generally

need to prevent battery overdischarge function, because

battery overdischarge will cause permanent damage. It should

be noted that the solar cell system is generally relatively small

rate discharge, so the discharge cutoff voltage should not be

too low.

(4) Temperature compensation, which describes that the

battery voltage control point varies with the ambient

temperature, so the solar powered led path lights system

should have a reference voltage controlled by temperature.

For a single lead-acid battery is-3 ≤ 7mVcC, we usually

choose-4mV=C

1) photosensitive sensor. solar powered led path lights needs

light-controlled switch, designers often use photoresistor to

automatically turn on and off lamp, in fact, solar cell itself is

an excellent photosensitive sensor, using it as photosensitive

switch, the characteristics are better than photoresistance.

For the solar powered led path lights which uses only one

1.2VNi-Cd cell, the solar cell module is composed of four solar

cells in series, the voltage is low, the voltage in weak light is

even lower, so that the black voltage is less than 0.7 V,

resulting in the failure of optical switch. In this case, as long as

a transistor is directly coupled and amplified, the problem can

be solved.

(2) the load is controlled according to the voltage of the

battery. solar powered led path lights often require high

maintenance time for continuous rain, which increases the

cost of the system. When the voltage of continuous rain

battery is reduced, we can reduce the number of LED access,

or reduce the daily luminous time of solar powered led path

lights, which can reduce the cost of the system.

(3) the packaging form of solar cells. At present, there are two

main packaging forms of solar cells, laminating and dropping

glue. The lamination process can ensure the working life of

solar cells for more than 25 years. Although the glue dripping

is beautiful at that time, the working life of solar cells is only

1-2 years. Therefore, the low power solar powered led path

lights below 1W, in the absence of excessive life requirements,

can use glue drop packaging form, for the solar powered led

path lights with a specified service life, it is recommended to

use lamination packaging form.

(4) flicker and change light. Brightening and darkening is a

good way to save energy. On the one hand, it can increase the

irradiation effect of solar lawn, on the other hand, it can

control the average output current of the battery by changing

the flicker duty cycle, prolong the working time of the system,

or under the same conditions, it can reduce the power of solar

cells, and the cost will be greatly reduced.

(5) the switching speed of trichromatic primary color high

efficiency energy saving lamp. This problem is very important,

it even determines the service life of solar powered led path

lights, trichromatic primary color efficient energy-saving

lamp has up to 10-20 times start-up current, the system

may have a large voltage drop under the condition of such a

large current, solar powered led path lights can not start or

start again and again until it is damaged.

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LED Lighting Supplier. It was founded in 2008 LED

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