Waterproof power mode or a trend that will become the future of power supply

[Source: Gaogong LED's "LED Good Products" November issue (total 59th issue) | Journal reporter Xu Chaopeng] For the question mentioned at the beginning of the article, will the future drive power industry, whether it will waterproof its process Stripped from the process and then transferred to the luminaire manufacturer to achieve a uniform water repellency treatment, thereby reducing the overall cost of the luminaire? Although it is not certain, it is foreseeable that this will be a trend in the future development of power supplies.

"I don't quite agree with the idea of â€‹â€‹'stripping'. Because different brand manufacturers are going to make lamps, there will definitely be different product structures, but I think this way will certainly cause the lighting manufacturers to increase their troubles to some extent. Because it is to transfer the processing technology to the luminaire, in this way, the standardization process in the entire industry will not be unified in the future.â€ Jiang Shuxing, general manager of Shenzhen Eurolink Electronics Co., Ltd. mentioned.

At the same time, he also believes that the current LED industry's popular view is the standardization and modularization of products. As long as the lamps and lanterns manufacturers get the parts back to assemble, the industrial division of labor tends to be more concise. If this approach is adopted, then the standardization process in the industry will gradually drift away.

"If the luminaire manufacturer has done waterproof treatment, then the problem it considers may be more comprehensive, but if the luminaire manufacturer does not understand the waterproof treatment, then it will certainly have corresponding difficulty in doing it." Shenzhen Jing Lande Yi Jirong, technical director of Lighting Co., Ltd. told reporters that after the requirements of waterproofing treatment were transferred to the lighting companies, the lighting manufacturers need to add a preventive water treatment department as a whole, which will increase the operating costs of the lighting manufacturers to some extent.

However, the reporter also learned that the current power supply waterproofing is a separate installation method, and the finished lighting products are waterproof, and the waterproof performance is measured by the waterproof rating of the external power supply. This means that if the drive power supply passes the waterproof safety test certification, then the finished finished lamp can pass the relevant safety certification.

â€œIf the lighting industry directly purchases the bare board of the power supply, it will be more difficult to do the safety certification because it has to adapt to the various complex structures and configuration requirements in the fixture. But if my drive power is certified separately, Direct installation, then it is only a component that can pass the safety certification, there will not be too much problem." Qiu Zhonghua told reporters that the lighting manufacturers still have matching problems, the overall waterproof can indeed be to some extent Reduce costs, but if you consider the overall luminaire, then its cost will be higher, and most of the current luminaire manufacturers are not willing to invest too much in product design and safety certification. So the situation is that they are more willing to find a power supply manufacturer instead of waterproofing.

However, Qiu Zhonghua also mentioned that "in the future, from the perspective of cost reduction, the overall waterproof treatment is definitely a trend, and from the current trend of power supply and optoelectronic integration, the power supply in the future is likely to evolve into a chip form. Then the water resistance requirement for the power supply is no longer necessary, and if it is carried out in this way, the cost will be saved more."

It is foreseeable that in the future, the development trend of the LED industry will definitely enable most people to use LED lighting. Under the trend of further cost reduction, the market prospect of the integrated waterproof power supply will be very broad.