LED power supply is the one of the most important parts for LED lighting project. Most households use 120-277V AC electricity, but LEDs operate on low voltage DC electricity, 12v, 24v, 36v, 48v.
Therefore, the external power supply can changes the higher voltage AC current into the lower voltage DC current to match what the LED lights need to operate.Sometimes users want to use a electronic dimmer switch to adjust the brightness of the LED lights. There are different types of LED dimmers which determine if you need a non-dimmable or dimmable led transformer.
For examples, pwm led dimmer is placed in between led driver and LED lights, it requires non-dimmable led drivers due to it can dim the lights directly. Triac dimmer is unable to control the LED lights directly, it regulates the input voltage of the power supply, which connects directly to LED lights such as strip lights, so we need triac dimmable led driver while choose this type of dimmer.