In 2001 at Spectrum Illumination we identified the need for a current regulating LED Driver to run High Flux LED’s for the Machine Vision Industry. At that time we didn’t see any cost affective, stable or reliable options available. We realized that the future of Machine Vision Lighting would move towards High Flux LED’s if a solution was available. Our engineering staff started development on the first current regulating driver specifically designed to run High Flux LED’s for the Machine Vision Industry. The challenges that we faced during the design involved making the unit compact, affordable, repeatable and reliable. Our feeling was that the unit needed to employ industry standard DIN rail mounting and because electrical panel space is a premium the unit needed to be compact. We also felt that the unit needed to be included with our lights as a package without adding significant cost to the end user. The driver also needed to be repeatable so that every time the unit was pulsed the current output did not change even on demanding high speed applications. The final and maybe most important thing was that the driver needed to be reliable so that it would outlast the LED light. The LDM Adapter was released in 2002 meeting all the standards that we had set out to achieve. Since the LDM’s release, significant advances in efficiency and strobe response time have been improved. We have since released the ALDM (analog) Adapter for users requiring intensity changes via analog control and our VLDM (variable) Adapter for manual control via potentiometer. The ALDM and VLDM Adapters are designed based on the proven LDM Adapter platform. The latest release (Revision H) was designed to integrate directly with our Ethernet based Monster Brain Controller (MBC). Advanced communication, pulse timing and intensity control can be achieved utilizing the MBC Ethernet controller. Our Controllers are simply the best High Flux LED drivers in the Machine Vision Industry.