Compared with active control, the passive method is more rugged and reliable in driving multistring LEDs with current balance. This paper figures out that it takes a large number of compensation components for the reported inductive-power-transfer (IPT) converter with LCC-CLCL compensation to drive multistring LEDs with current balance. To address this issue, a much simpler IPT converter with S-S compensation is proposed to drive multistring LEDs with current balance. A comparative study on these two IPT converters is performed to verify that the proposed S-S IPT converter shows an advantage in component count while maintaining the current balance capacity.