SpecBright™ LED Module Accessories

• Power Supplies
  
• Thermal Management & Heat Sinks
  
• Strobe Drivers
  
• Connectors
  

Power supplies

Our Current Mode Power (CMP) controller drives SpecBright™ LED Illuminators and can be configured for both constant current and 24VDC. The CMP is a compact, DIN rail mountable controller requiring only 24VDC input (500-mA min) for easy integration.  It features both manual intensity control—via a potentiometer—and remote control via analog inputs for intensity adjustment and a TTL input for fast, repeatable non-overdriven on/off/strobe control.
In addition, we offer both a universal AC-mains to 24VDC power via low cost 12W/500mA adaptors and standard industrial 240W/10A switching power supplies (P/N PSU-24W-240US).  The low cost power adaptors are offered with connectors (P/N PTS400-24C) for easy connection, with optionally connectorized or as flying leads (P/N PTS400-24F) for use with the CMP or application specific connections.  These include interchangeable plugs for use in any country. 
Generally constant current configured LED lights are preferred from a performance perspective.  However, we offer lights with current limiting resistors in the circuit for constant voltage configured lights because a single low cost power supply accessory can be used to power the lights. Alternatively the existing 24VDC in a machine can be directly used to power the light at full power with no adjustability.  If you would like the highest performance, stability, reliability, and control we recommend using constant current configured lights.   With a CMP-M-400 controller current configured lights will produce 1.5-2x more light at the maximum safe continuous ~400-mA current draw.  The voltage configured lights will use 200-mA only for powering the LEDs and the rest of the current will be dropped across the resistors producing heat.

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Thermal Management & Heat Sinks

ProPhotonix SpecBright LED lights are designed from the ground up for optimal thermal management and we offer modular heat sinks to accommodate your application driving parameters, fixtures, and space constraints.
At room temperature and when properly heat sunk our SpecBright LED lights will operate well within safe temperature ranges.  For higher ambient temperatures or when using application specific heat sinking or fixturing ensure that the light housing temperature does not exceed 45 °C
LEDs produce very little heat in comparison to conventional legacy lights sources such as incandescent or halogen light.  However, the heat they do produce must be transported away from the LED itself to realize the long life, reliability, and stability of LEDs.  

Heat sinking is highly recommended when LED lights are used at or near full power in continuous, high duty cycle, or long pulse width applications.  ProPhotonix offers optimized heat sinks for use with our lights.

Strobe Drivers

The SpecBright™ CMS series of LED Strobe Driver provides precise deterministic LED control for both continuous, intermittent, and highly over driven strobing applications.  These are multi independent channel controllers that have flexible power input requirements and have current outputs in 5-mA increments up to several Amps continuous and up to 20 Amps pulsed.  They feature push button manual control or communication via Ethernet or RS-232 for sophisticated integration needs. 
For high speed applications where motion must be stopped over-driving LEDs can produce as many as 10-20x the light output for a short pulse time—generally 1msec or less—and small duty cycles—generally 10% or less.  While there are too many variables for us to guarantee the maximum safe driving currents, pulse widths, or duty cycles for every situation we do provide lights with an optimal thermal design and without resistors to allow you to get the most light possible.  While pulsing of LEDs will generally greatly lower the average power dissipation and increase the lifetime, too high of instantaneous currents for too long a period of time or a high duty cycle can very easily damage an LED light.  Strobing is always performed at your own risk.  Our sales and applications engineers can provide guidance  as to how to get the most out of your SpecBright LED illuminators.

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Connectors

Flying leads are standard for current source (I) modules and typically for voltage configured lights as well.

Tyco Mini Universal Mate-N-Lock connectors are available for 24VDC voltage configured lights (i.e. AF1-630-VXF100) and are typically paired with the connectorized low cost power adaptor (P/N PTS400-24C) for lab or bench top use.  They provide a secure locking mechanism and reverse polarity protection. 

Light crimp is 170365-1 AMP
Light Connector is 172336-1 AMP
Mating Crimp is 170364-1 AMP
Mating Connector is 172328-1 AMP


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