LED repair

[brandonmason]

Most often than not... many have a chinese led quit working on either the blue channel or white channel. And more often than not... its assumed its a driver. A led tester is pretty simple to make with 2 double A batteries... especially if youve got an old kids toy laying around. Ive repaired tons of led units as well as converted them to full spectrum. I thought I'd share that process.

Here I took the housing apart to expose the solder joints of the unit. This particular unit had all working leds but consisted of only blues and whites

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Using a solder iron to heat the old joint as to remove 1 of the white leds

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I removed 4 white leds to put in the greens and reds along with 6 additional leds that i put a slightly different white.

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I thrn did the same on the blue channel to add a few uv and violets

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I thrn pulled out 2 different optics to use. Using the 90s on the perimeter of the unit and 60s on the interior

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Optics in place and one final test before assembling the unit back together

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And now running together to have full spectrum

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[bcavalli]

Great thread Brandon. I think I will convert my 2 channel to a multi spectrum.

 

[brandonmason]

Bcavalli;1116107 wrote: Great thread Brandon. I think I will convert my 2 channel to a multi spectrum.

Bring it to the bbq I'll convert it for ya

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[bcavalli]

Awesome. Sounds great!

 

[adrian912]

Have you ever tried putting frosted film on the glass in order to diffuse the light for better blending? Getting rid of the disco ball effect basically.

 

[brandonmason]

Adrian912;1116773 wrote: Have you ever tried putting frosted film on the glass in order to diffuse the light for better blending? Getting rid of the disco ball effect basically.

I assume you could do that... but at the hight my leds are hung, I have never experienced the disco effect. I would ve afraid that "deflecting" too much light would kill the par.

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