Maker Electronics Math · Chapter 9

Duty, Average Current & Apparent Brightness

A quarter of the current does not buy a quarter of the light. Here is what it does buy.

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Enter a peak current and a duty, then press Calculate.
From the book — Chapter 9. average = peak × duty. Duty scales the average and never the peak. Apparent brightness ≈ 116 × ∛duty − 16 — and that discount belongs to light only.

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