Here is a driver that I did for Old Lumens DIY Handbuilt contest. It is an ultra high power direct drive LED driver.
How high power, you ask? Well the LED MOSFET is rated at 60 volts, 195 amps! But that is a little misleading. The MOSFET is in a TO-220 package which one can’t really pull more than around 100 amps out of :_( Well, 60 volts at 100 amps is 6000 watts. I have actually used a very similar circuit to control a 4000+ watt composite curing oven.
The AMC7135 current regulator chips have been replaced by the MOSFET and gate drive circuit.
It uses an external LM35 temperature sensor instead of the sensor built into the processor chip. The temperature sensor is mounted on the LED “star”.
And it has a second PWM channel for driving a thermostatically controlled fan (the hotter it is, the harder she blows J) ). The parasitic drain on the batteries is around 20 microamps.
Yep, 2x4S 6000 mAh NanoTech’s… They can put out over 1000 amps…
But the main reason for the Dean’s plugs is the fact that they can handle a lot of current and can be soldered to a PC board. The batteries have EC5 connectors on them.
The board is 2 x 2.5” and used through hole parts since I had them sitting around. If I do it over again, it will be surface mount and much smaller (and with lower capacity FETs). I’d probably also put the high-current gate driver on the second PWM channel/FET.