Author Topic: Mains Powered LED - LED Lamp Reverse Engineering  (Read 30598 times)

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Online Benta

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Re: Mains Powered LED - LED Lamp Reverse Engineering
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2022, 02:54:36 pm »
Are you measuring the caps in-circuit or did you remove them first?
 

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Re: Mains Powered LED - LED Lamp Reverse Engineering
« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2022, 02:57:17 pm »
Are you measuring the caps in-circuit or did you remove them first?

First one then the other. So yes I removed them :)
I guess you was thinking the diodes in the bridge rectifier? This was my first thought too but these all measure fine.
 

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Re: Mains Powered LED - LED Lamp Reverse Engineering
« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2022, 03:13:33 pm »
No, I was thinking about the bleed resistor.

 

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Re: Mains Powered LED - LED Lamp Reverse Engineering
« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2022, 05:41:53 pm »
No, I was thinking about the bleed resistor.

Oh OK, I see what you are thinking, however I just checked and the bleed resistor (in parallel with the dropper capacitor) is measuring as expected on all of them  :-//
 

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Re: Mains Powered LED - LED Lamp Reverse Engineering
« Reply #29 on: January 14, 2022, 05:56:22 pm »
I believe the most common reason for failure of LED lamps is that they overdrive the LEDs with too high a current, causing the LEDs to burn out and most likely cause a cascade failure in other parts of the circuit.

BigClive has done many, many videos on LED lamp teardowns and analysis. If you have not looked at these already, they are a good learning resource. One example below:


 
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