Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:07:05 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] leds: driver for ab5500 high voltage leds | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Denis Kuzmenko <linux@solonet.org.ua> wrote:
> (snip) >> diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-ab5500.c b/drivers/leds/leds-ab5500.c > (snip) >> +/* >> + * Driver for HVLED in ST-Ericsson AB5500 analog baseband controller >> + * >> + * This chip can drive upto 3 leds, of upto 40mA of led sink current. > > Can't get these are High Voltage or High Current LEDs? > If Voltage why haven't you wrote about supplied voltage but wrote about > max. current?
The three channels are indeed high-voltage LEDs, they supply up to 20V from a supply voltage of some standard mobile handset battery at say 3.8 V or so. But there is no register to control the voltage or anything like that.
My naive understanding is that you set the current limit and then the HV transformer (I guess this is a buck converter of some kind) will raise the voltage level until it either (A) cannot raise it any more at c:a 20V or (b) the current limit is reached.
I suspect this is because for LEDs of this type you get a specified current but the voltage just has to be "high enough" to break through some diode barrier threshold or so. After that intensity is controlled by limiting the current.
Does this suffice as explanation...?
Yours, Linus Walleij
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