There are also dummy loads for power supplies, known as load banks.
An electronic load (or e-load) is a device or assembly that simulates loading on an electronic circuit. It is used as substitute for a conventional ohmic load resistor.
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As counterpart to a current source, the electronic load is a current sink. When loading a current source with a fixed resistor one can set one determined load current by the connected load resistor. The characteristic of the electronic load is that the load current can be set and varied in a defined range. The load current is regulated electronically.
The electronic load consumes electric energy and in most cases transforms it into heat. Fans or water-cooled elements are used as coolers. Under certain conditions, energy-recycling into the public power supply system is also possible.
Electronic loads are used in diverse applications, particularly for the test of power supplies, batteries, solar and fuel cells, generators. AC loads are used to test transformers, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) or onboard power supplies. The equipment and power spectrum of such electronic loads begins with simplest circuits consisting in general of a potentiometer for current setting and a transistor circuit for power transforming. Further developed electronic loads supply several operating modes, in most cases constant current, voltage, power and resistance. Nowadays, the equipment may be controlled by a PLC or remotely by a PC. Settings and measured values such as input voltage and actual load current are indicated on a display
Dummy Load Definition. Often times in electrical wiring, we deal with more power than what we need. What happens with Leds particularly is that a charge builds up and then will discharge, which is a blinking.
Or you can thing about it this way, as a crude example. So say you have a Par 64, that Par 64 draws for example, 25 Watts. Your power strip outputs 75 Watts. So you have 50 Watts going no where. When your light is on, the excess wattage runs off and you don't really notice. When the Par 64 is at less than full, now you have a lot of extra watts, those watts build up and discharge intermittently. What a dummy load does is it draws off the excess wattage to keep the power in the Leds low enough to use.
So a good way to test it, Dummy Loads are cheap, 10 - 20 dollars, you can make them yourself for less. Or you can just make a simulated one. Plug something that draws a lot of power, a stereo, amp, older television. Use a two-fer, or three-fer. Something that splits a single plug into multiple, not a power strip because a power strip regulates the current. If your light continues to blink it is something else. If it stops, you know it is a load issue.
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