For what it's worth
Driving LED's in a pulsed mode is more efficient in terms of light output than DC to the human eye. This is well known, and one of the reasons why many led displays are multiplexed. In th 80's and 90's I used to design alpha numeric LED display readouts for our instrumentation that operated with a 10% duty cycle in multiplexed mode. This was always more efficient and brighter to the eye than straight DC drive, watt for watt.
How all this computes to using a non biological sensor and getting back to actual power transferred should be interesting, as the eye can be fooled, and eyeballing brightness without considering duty cycle is misleading in terms of average power transferred vs. peak power
The best torches on the market use a blocking oscillator or similar switched inductor to efficiently drive LED's as opposed to straight DC.
Now, I am interested in how you believe this might be the answer to the TPU.
Thanks for the input ION.
Latest test-after fine tuning.
Now here is the interesting thing with this circuit. One LED is not pulsing,it is on 100% of the time, at a steddy 2.76 volt's@ our 2.41mA-this is due to how i have the circuit set up.The other LED has a duty cycle of 41%.This is at a peak voltage of 6.7v.( 6.7 x .41=an average of 2.747
So LED 1 is -->2.76@2.41mA=6.6516mW
LED 2 is-->2.747 @ 2.41mA=6.6202mW.
This is a total of 13.2718mW.
Our P/in for the whole circuit is-->peak voltage=7.6 volt's-this is across the SG,and is what the P/P voltage of the SG is set at.
Our I/in is 2.41mA
7,6 x .40(duty cycle)=3.40 V/average
3.4v x 2.41mA=8.194mW
13.2718/8.194 x 100=161.96%
Now in regards to the TPU,it has 2 or 3 inductors(wires rapped around the steel core), caps,and what i believe to be the drive circuit.1 or 2 of the smaller inductors would be to drive the pulse circuit,while the large one supplies the power to run the circuit,and the extra is to drive the load's. In my case,the extra 61.96 % is driving the LED's harder-this is why it is more efficient than driving the LED's with a DC P/in. Taking Darren's advice about the optimal efficiency at running LED's on a dc current,i spent an hour obtaining the best efficiency for the LED's on DC current. This was done using the light box. I went up in .01 v steps on my power supply until i got the most P/out from the light box,for the least Pin to the LED's. The LED's are rated at 2.8v,and the best efficiency was found at 2.78v-so very close to the spec's of the LED's.This 2.78v was at 4.36mA-so our P/in is 12.1208mW
Summery
DC P/in=12.1208mW
Circuits P/in=8.194mW
12.1208/8.194 x 100=147.92%
The 14.04% difference between the 161.96% and the 147.92,is because the LED's are being driven harder. This is confirmed through the light box,where we can obtain a higher voltage across the light box circuit using the pulsed circuit than we can using a DC current.
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