
LED Lighting

Specially designed SIDACtor protection thyristors made by Littelfuse ensure LED light strings continue operating when individual bulbs fail as open circuits. Our PLED—short for “LED protector”—products shunt current around shorted bulbs while also providing ESD, EFT, and transient voltage surge protection. We offer several different types of PLEDs, including devices for outdoor use that meet international standards for lightning protection and devices for use in light ballast originally installed to support fluorescent fixtures.
- Available with a very wide range of maximum repetitive peak forward voltage ratings, from 6 VDRM to 340 VDRM
- Available with maximum breakdown voltage ratings from 16 V to 430 V
- Low hold current ratings from 5 mA to 30 mA
- Responses times of approximately 100 ns
- Certified halogen-free and RoHS compliant
- Automatically reset after the power cycle
- Maximum heat dissipation makes PLEDs good choices for densely packed printed circuit boards
- Subminiature international standard packages
- Smaller than silicon-controlled rectifiers
- Less prone to failure due to current overload than Zenner diodes
- Compatible with reflow soldering processes