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Got tempted to shed a bit of blood and open up a dead one and it had a swollen capacitor.
Capacitor's - the number 1 reason for premature LED failure.
Bit heavy reading, but a great article;
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/powersource/4311940/Capacitor-selection-helps-achieve-long-lifetimes-for-LED-lights0 -
Capacitor's - the number 1 reason for premature LED failure.
I suspect that capacitors are the main reason for failure of most non-portable electronics. (Mechanical failure [contacts/track breakage] probably ranks quite highly for portable stuff.)There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.0 -
Capacitor's - the number 1 reason for premature LED failure.
Bit heavy reading, but a great article;
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/powersource/4311940/Capacitor-selection-helps-achieve-long-lifetimes-for-LED-lights
Because it seems to be so temperature related do think that's the reason why I've had no failures in my dimmed standard lamp?0
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