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Help/info with problematic led swap
Next question. I broke the fine negative wire too short to solder it back onto the emitter and now have to get the driver out of the pill. Any suggestions on desoldering the drive from the pill so I can solder a new wire on without destroying the driver completely? Or perhaps use a dremel and...- KarlH
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Help/info with problematic led swap
Just got home from work and was checking it out again. I pulled the emitter off of the pill leaving it soldered to the wires from the driver, and looking with a magnifer, there was some slight cracking of the wire insulation on the negative side. I could not see it with my naked eye, damn old...- KarlH
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Help/info with problematic led swap
Batteries are 2 primaries, duracell 123's, maybe 3 or 4 minutes run time on them at most.- KarlH
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Help/info with problematic led swap
I know the modes are the driver, but there is no mode anymore, just extremely high. It is far far far brighter than the 1 amp draw when it was on the solarforce drop in. Being current regulated, the driver from lumens factory should not be drawing that much from the batteries. As far as the...- KarlH
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Help/info with problematic led swap
Did I destroy a driver or am I just stupid, or even both.... I just swapped led's out from a d36 drop in with Cree XRE r2 which at the taicap was using 40 ma on low, 240 ma on medium, and 800 ma on high. I had an IR d26 drop in from solarforce which had more spill than throw and was useless at...- KarlH
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