2024-03-19

XLN/XLC Series: 25W/40W/60W Intelligent LED Power Supply

The LED lighting is a mature industry, with advancements in lumens per watt and integration of intelligent dimming applications. Various countries have also established detailed safety regulations and energy saving efficiency regulations to ensure user safety and energy saving. MEAN WELL's latest LED power supply, XLN/XLC series, provides the most complete safety certification and dimming functionalities. By combining with luminaire designs that meet high luminous efficiency and safety requirements, it supports the global initiative to achieve the 2050 net-zero car...
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2024-02-22

XLG-240/320-48-ABV Series 240W & 320W Agricultural Lighting LED Power Supply

Though LED lighting is widely used for daily illumination, it is still quite essential to have the economic benefits and animal-friendly conditions for agricultural lighting applications. Some special requirements such as wavelength (color) selection or application without flicker need to be considered for lighting use. Therefore, MEAN WELL has developed a constant voltage output and flicker-free dimming power supply for special lighting fixtures used in the poultry lighting, which is provided to global customers in a standard power supply format. Due to the varying sizes...
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2024-02-22

XLG-DA2 Series 50W~320W DALI-2 Digital Dimming LED Driver

MEAN WELL's XLG series complied with the latest safety standards and isolated dimming design, covered both constant current and constant voltage applications. The series can be used with general constant current luminaires such as street light, floodlight, bay light or general 12V/24V/48V constant voltage LED strips for lighting applications. It not only conforms to the independent control gear design, provides IP67 waterproof and 3-in-1 dimming functions; it has also been added the DALI-2 digital dimming function to provide a more completed solution for intellig...
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2023-10-27

MEAN WELL Showcased the New XLN and XLC LED Drivers at Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2023, Emphasizing “Healthy Lighting Matters, While Smart Dimming Is Only the Basic”

MEAN WELL, a globally leading brand of standard power supply products, is driving product upgrades and providing a variety of products to meet customer needs. This year, MEAN WELL is launching new lineups at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair, showcasing the XLN series and the XLC series Compact Size LED Drivers . These products are expected to debut in November, offering new choices for digital lighting and smart lighting control.   The XLN and XLC series are "sibling series," with the former using an outlet wiring metho...
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2023-06-26

Digital Brilliance Unleashed! MEAN WELL Shines at COMPUTEX with a Powerful Display of Cross-Industry Power System Mastery

The Taipei International Computer Show (COMPUTEX) has successfully drawn to a close, with global standard power supply leader MEAN WELL showcasing a host of major products, including its 3+N System Power Supply, DC High-Voltage Centralized Power Supply Lighting, Security Monitoring Power, and Power Supply Series Dedicated to Harsh Environments, demonstrating comprehensive, adaptable, and robust system power supply solutions. Rex Lin, Project Manager at MEAN WELL’s Product Strategy Center, noted that as many applications are ev...
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2022-12-08

As the World’s Largest Production Base of Standard Power Supplies Is Launched, SDG Group Creates Sustainable Future with Reliable Business Partners

MEAN WELL, a leading manufacturer of standard power supply products with a combined revenue of more than USD 1,351 million worldwide, founded Sustainable Development Group (SDG) jointly with PowerNex and SHARE WELL, aiming to implement sustainability-related strategies comprehensively. On November 10, 2022, the group held an inauguration ceremony for MEAN WELL Smart Park located in Suzhou, China, during which guests from around the world witnessed the launch of the world’s largest production base of standard power supplies. The inauguration al...
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2022-03-30

XLG-20/320 Series The Extension of The XLG Series: 20W and 320W LED Power Supplies

MEAN WELL XLG series has been on the market for three years, and the sales volume is still growing. It is widely recognized by customers for the quality and price of the series. In order to provide customers with a wider range of applications, MEAN WELL has supplemented the XLG product line more completely, adding the XLG-20 and XLG-320 series, so that the range of the entire product line covers applications using from 20 ~ 320W. The product design continues the XLG series, in line with the latest regulatory requirements and isolation dimming design. The w...
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2022-03-30

DC House|DC 380V Input NHDD series LED Driver

  In LED lighting applications, MEAN WELL has always provided a variety of products and lead the market. This time, MEAN WELL will once again define a new high voltage DC 380V centralized bus application, and will continue to lead the market to become a pioneer in DC power grid of lighting applications. This coincides with the developing trend that countries around the world have begun to implement of energy saving and carbon neutrality, how to combine renewable energy sources, and effectively integrate DC power grid and energy storage systems. MEAN...
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2021-06-23

MEAN WELL Develops Market Strategies for HVDC LED Lighting Applications and DALI-2 Products, Targeting the Trends of Energy Conservation, Smart Technology, and Renewable Energy

Widespread use of electricity is recognized as a cause leading to the Second Industrial Revolution. At the same time, the battle between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison—inventors who designed the alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) systems, respectively—remains a popular topic today. After AC has dominated our life for a few centuries, centralized DC power supply is likely to again move into the spotlight due to technological advances, dramatic changes in electricity use, and skyrocketing demand for energy storage.   As a leading provider o...
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2020-12-23

DALI 2.0 Digital Dimming LED Driver LCM/PWM-DA2 Series 25~120W

As the DALI Association keeps adding new lighting control functions under the IEC 62386 international regulation to the DALI 2.0 version digital lighting control products, the whole lighting control system can achieve the goals: simple setting, open system, and high compatibility. Compared with DALI 1.0 Version, DALI 2.0 Version adds the definitions and functions of the input device and control device, improving and completing the overall DALI lighting system. In the future, LED driver will become a basic lighting device of DALI 2.0 control system. Dig...
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2020-10-23

LCM /PWM- IoT Series 25~120W Bluetooth Mesh LED Driver for Intelligent lighting

As the 5G telecommunication booms, lighting products is expected to integrate with more intelligent control. The luminaires are no longer just lighting tools. Intelligent lighting is the market trend no matter in wired or wireless control. The ultimate goal is to integrate all lighting fixtures and home devices into the same network and control these devices through the APP. Users can easily control the lights, achieving energy, and asset management. MEAN WELL released LCM-40/60BLE series, LED drivers with CASAMBI Bluetooth mesh module, in 2019. This yea...
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2020-10-13

【Exclusive Interview】MEAN WELL Shapes the Future of IoT with Centralized DC House for Smart Lighting and Industrial Controls

From fire to electricity, the human civilization continues to unfold through advances in science and technology. All of this progress has been built on the acquisition and harnessing of different forms of energies. Likewise, the great technological innovations of the recent century or so are made possible by evolutionary changes in the delivery of electricity to end-users. Since the rivalry between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla more than a hundred years ago, DC and AC have been competing for supremacy in an ever-expanding range of power applications. The course of the rivalry i...
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2020-07-31

MEAN WELL Launches LDH-25/65Series 25/65W DC/DC LED Power Supply

Global warming has drawn enormous attention to green energy and DC house application. Many countries have started to promote energy-saving and safer electricity usage. MEAN WELL develops direct current (DC) input LED drive power supply, the LDH-25/65 series for green energy LED lighting applications, including LED solar street lights or equipment with secondary battery applications, such as camping car/yacht applications. LDH-25/65 series provide customers options for reducing conversion losses between DC bus to DC/DC driver. LDH-25/65W which are d...
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2020-04-30

MEAN WELL Addresses Start Up Issue on LED modules with DC-to-DC Converter

LED Driving Design Structure LED modules are typically driven by one of the three structures listed below: - A constant current (CC) LED driver connects to LED directly, luminance controlled by LED driver’s output current. - A constant voltage (CV) LED power supply, typically 12V or 24V, connects to LED strips or tubes which have resistor or simple current limiting circuit on the LED PCB. The resistor or current limiter defines the current and luminance. - Cascade connection of a CV power supply and a DC-to-DC converter (DC/DC) an...
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2020-04-17

MEAN WELL Power Can Help! One Medical Power Supply Saves One Life

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world by the end of January, MEAN WELL is swarmed with the medical power requirements from across the globe, especially for ventilators, nucleic acid detectors, mask machines, and temperature measurement equipment, and more. Among all medical devices demands, life support equipment such as patient monitors and ventilators are the most urgent. To alleviate the emergency and save more lives, MEAN WELL headquarters swiftly orders Suzhou MEAN WELL (SZMW) to build up special production lines for medical ...
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2020-03-31

MEAN WELL Introduce Applications on Redundancy Function of LED Display Power Supply

With continuous developments of LED display technology, the market share of full-color LED displays has been increasing in recent years. The characteristics of its high-brightness and high-resolution are widely favored by most advertisers and real estate developers. For a better watching experience, people require higher demands on clarity and resolution. As a result, the small-pitch LED display has become a trend. As full-color small-pitch LED display can achieve better graphics images and videos displaying effects on smaller screens, the range of the applications are gr...
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2020-03-30

MEAN WELL Launches LSP-160 series - Low Profile and Noise-free Enclosed Type Power Supply

MEAN WELL introduced the LSP series, a new miniature enclosure-type power supply developed to provide equipment with high stability and redundant functions. Slim width (55mm) and low profile(20 mm) case with fanless design is a perfect fit for indoor noise-free equipment or narrow-sized display applications. In addition to the miniature mechanism design, the new product is featured with fanless design that solves noise and lifespan issue at the same time. In addition, the output provides DC available and current sharing (redundancy) function to monitor and parall...
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2020-02-26

MEAN WELL Launches New Generation of XBG Circular LED Driver

The XBG series is a new generation LED driver with a patented circular case mechanism design for bay lights and floodlight applications. The main differences compared to the previous version of HBG series are the circuit design with constant power output and complying with the latest safety regulations with isolation between output and dimming lines. But the product keep mounting holes at the same place for easy replacement. In addition, the overall design also confirm with the SELV (Safety Extra-Low Voltage) regulation, which reduces the complexity of the lighting insul...
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2020-01-31

MEAN WELL Releases PWM-60KN/120KN PWM Output KNX LED Driver

MEAN WELL, the leading standard power supply manufacturer, continues to promote the building automation technology for a green and sustainable society. In order to enlarge its KNX product variety to meet the needs of end customers and system integrators, MEAN WELL unveiled the KNX LED driver PWM-60/120KN. PWM-KN series is an AC/DC LED driver featuring constant voltage mode with PWM style output, which is able to maintain color temperature and brightness homogeneity when driving all kinds of LED strips. Its KNX interface also helps to ...
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2020-01-07

MEAN WELL: A Guaranteed Success! TU Eindhoven Stella Era Wins Bridgestone World Solar Challenge with CAN bus Charger!

Onboard with three high efficiency programmable chargers DBU-3200 from MEAN WELL, solar vehicle “Stella Era” designed and built by Solar Team Eindhoven from Eindhoven University of Technology of the Netherlands has claimed its victory at the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge finale in Darwin, Australia The Bridge World Solar Challenge (BWSC) has been the world’s most important solar vehicle event since its inauguration in 1987. During the last three decades, countless sustainable ideas of solar solutions have been presented to th...
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2019-12-11

MEAN WELL Launches World First KNX Multiple-Stage Constant Current Mode LED Driver LCM-25KN

MEAN WELL, the leading standard power supply manufacturer, continues to promote the building automation technology for making a green and sustainable society. In order to enlarge the KNX product variety to meet the needs of end customers and system integrators, MEAN WELL is pleased to unveil the LCM-25KN to complete the product series after the launching of LCM-40/60KN to the market. LCM-25KN series is a 25W AC/DC constant current mode output LED driver featuring the multiple levels selectable by dip switch and the KNX interface, avoiding usin...
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2019-10-07

MEAN WELL to Present New Products at Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (2019/10/27~30)

The annual exhibition of the lighting industry— Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) will be staged from October 27 to 30, 2019 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Highly recognized by visitors, MEAN WELL decides to apply last year exhibition pattern by showing up at 5th floor, the LED & Green Lighting zone, with booth No. 5C-A26 and at 1st floor Hall of Aurora with booth No. 1C-D25 to present brand image as the reliable power partner. MEAN WELL is ready to welcome visitors at the fair. Wi...
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2019-10-02

MEAN WELL Launches SLD-50 Series 50W Slim and Linear Type LED Driver

MEAN WELL new ultra-slim SLD-50 series is officially released after the SLD-80 series. With the launch of SLD-50 series, the whole linear type product line is fully completed. The SLD series is especially suitable for decorative lighting/advertising light boxes and linear luminaires. In addition to ultra-slim size features, this series also meets SELV and isolation circuit design, which is suitable for usage in various indoor lighting fixtures. Another key point is the 56V model that adopts the constant power output design and is applicable for LED design...
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2019-09-16

MEAN WELL Launches LCM-40/60BLE Bluetooth Mesh LED Driver

One major market trend in the LED lighting industry is to make LED luminaires intelligent. MEAN WELL is dedicated to designing innovative power supplies and has developed the LCM-40/60BLE LED driver with a Bluetooth mesh networking solution. The new driver allows customers to control luminaires using Bluetooth Low Energy 4.0 mesh protocol with their smartphones or tablets to set up settings and controls. Working with the European company Casambi, which is dedicated to developing Bluetooth mesh networking solutions, MEAN WELL has integrated the B...
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2019-08-30

MEAN WELL Debuts SLD-80 Series 80W Slim and Linear Type LED Driver

MEAN WELL unveils the new linear type SLD series with both mechanism and specification strengths. The 12V/24V models are the constant voltage and current mode for any 12V/24V LED strip application in the market. As for the 56V model, it applies the constant power mode, which downsizes the model numbers. The 56V model is suitable for any LED luminaires design with output forward voltage between 30V to 56V. The built-in potentiometer design is kept for the user to flexibly adjust output driver current from minimum 700 mA to maximum 2100 mA. (CP mode full power ...
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2019-07-19

MEAN WELL Launches HBGC-300-DA LED Power Supply

The HBGC-300 series is a newly developed LED driver for bay light and outdoor floodlight luminaires applications with DALI 2 dimming function which can operate with intelligently dimming control to increase the luminaire’s value and functions. Besides, the HBGC-300 is designed with MEAN WELL’s patented metal housing (Patented No. CN201220314551) and is able to operate with constant power mode to avoid the compatible issue and reduce the output models. HBGC-300 provides three in one and DALI 2 dimming function. Also the series is complian...
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2019-07-12

MEAN WELL: Investigation of the Lifetime and Reliability of Power Supply

In 2008, MEAN WELL officially released the first LED power supply – CLG-150 series and stepped into the potential LED market. Until now, the selling quantity of LED related products is uncountable. Having a special opportunity, MEAN WELL received several pieces of the CLG-150 products which were manufactured in 2008. A detailed investigation and analysis were executed, and the result is shared below. The number of the components could be from dozens to hundreds depends on the wattage and topology of power supply. Each component is applied to the ...
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2019-06-24

GILE 2019: Powered by MEAN WELL Brings High Quality Power to the Global Market

As LED technology matures, applications abound and burst upon the GILE scene. Apart from common lighting products, smart lighting and horticulture lighting also formed the focus of display for many suppliers. But behind the shines and shimmers of all those LED applications lay concealed a quiet but vital component: LED drivers. Taiwanese power supplier MEAN WELL may very well be the great demiurge of LED drivers, reaching worldwide fame with its brand and standard products and remaining at the vanguard of the turbulent and tumultuous LED industry. At GI...
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2019-05-29

【TILS 2019】Rooted in Taiwan and Aim for the World —MEAN WELL Supports Multiple LED Lighting Applications

The 2019 Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS) rounded off in the beginning of May. The show demonstrated that LED technology has delved deep into general lighting, and major LED lighting manufacturers have expanded to multiple niche applications. However, regardless of the changes and upgrades in applications, LED driver is always the core element of lighting and the heart of electronic application. As LED lighting moves towards differentiation and niche development, how will LED driver, the star behind the scenes, play to its strengths and keep up with th...
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2019-05-09

【2019 TILS】LED Lighting Moves to Smart and Professional Applications

Taiwan International Lighting Show kicked off on May 8th in Taipei with the theme “Smart Design, Enlightening Life.” The event welcomes its 10th anniversary with more than hundred exhibitors showcasing their innovative LED lighting applications. As LEDs are commonly applied in general lighting, lighting companies have turned their focus to professional lighting, smart lighting and human centric lighting. By combining adjustable features of LEDs with smart control, LED lighting can be further optimized for advanced applications. MEAN WELL, the...
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interested... READ MORE