Design and implementation of testing system of LED driver power based on LabVIEW

Abstract

Due to the risk of failure of LED luminaries induced by the driver power, performance testing is especially important to driver power in some critical industries production and acceptance of work. A test system of LED driver based on LabVIEW is proposed to detect multiple physical parameters, including input voltage, output current, driver power efficiency, peak factor of current ripple and total harmonic distortion etc. The component selection of the system was investigated and the framework of the proposed system was presented. The hardware of this system mainly consists of signal conditioning modules, data acquisition card, test cables and computer. The software is designed by LabVIEW to realize the calculation, display and analysis of the collected data. The experimental results show that the system can realize the test of LED driver, and real-time grade determination of the test results according to relevant standards or the exact level specified by client. In addition, the system has simple structure and high expansibility, which is convenient for early use and later maintenance. The stability and bias was carried out to evaluate the proposed system by Minitab software, which ensured the measurement accuracy.