Part Number: THS6212
Dear Sir or Madame
We want to use THS6212 to current control a string of LEDS, we understand that the THS6212 is aimed for a total different application area but we hope it can be used for our application.
The reason the THS6212 is chosen is it is cheap, can drive at least 1 ampere with a slew rate of 3800V/usat 150MHz bandwidth
Our idea is to let the THS6212 drive a string of LED’s to ground via a 0.1 ohm shunt resistor to ground and then feedback the voltage over the shunt to the - input.
In this way we can vary the current through the LED's as we wish by applying a chosen voltage to the + input.
The basic requirements for our application is to control the LEDS in two ways
- Continuously feed with up 100mA
- 1 Ampere with a 40kHz PWM.
Is it possible to drive the THS6212 on 24V (the datasheet says +-12 Volt)?
Is there any other suggestion to archive this LED control (the op amp gives such elegant and simple solution)?
Is there a dedicated LED driver chip that can archive this (which we obvious is not aware of)?
A second solution we been thinking of is a much simpler op feeding a Darlington that drives the LED’s, perhaps it is better?
Regards Stefan
Regards Stefan