TY - JFULL AU - Ankit R Patel and Ankit A Patel and Mahesh A Patel and Dhaval R Vyas PY - 2011/2/ TI - Modeling and Simulation of Photovoltaic based LED Lighting System T2 - International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering SP - 74 EP - 79 VL - 5 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13125 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 49, 2011 N2 - Although lighting systems powered by Photovoltaic (PV) cells have existed for many years, they are not widely used, especially in lighting for buildings, due to their high initial cost and low conversion efficiency. One of the technical challenges facing PV powered lighting systems has been how to use dc power generated by the PV module to energize common light sources that are designed to operate efficiently under ac power. Usually, the efficiency of the dc light sources is very poor compared to ac light sources. Rapid developments in LED lighting systems have made this technology a potential candidate for PV powered lighting systems. This study analyzed the efficiency of each component of PV powered lighting systems to identify optimum system configurations for different applications. ER -