HuFlungDung
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2005
- Location
- Canada
So we try to get on the green bandwagon and get LED Christmas lights to save precious electricity. But early failure of what is supposed to be a long life product irks me. Heck, I'm persistent enough to go through a string of mini-lamps and find the bad bulbs. I'm my wife's hero! So I cannot toss out a string of LED's without investigation.
So we notice this stink coming from the mini Christmas tree and the LEDs are off. I find this lump on the cord and cut it open and see what appears to be a stinky resistor burned up. It appears to be about the 1/4 watt power variety. But I have no idea what resistance it should have. Maybe I could replace it?
Why would something like this 'burn up'? The application seems pretty straight forward......but it seems like someone, somewhere (well, China actually), under-engineered something. This was only one string of LEDs, without any further strings daisy-chained on.
So we notice this stink coming from the mini Christmas tree and the LEDs are off. I find this lump on the cord and cut it open and see what appears to be a stinky resistor burned up. It appears to be about the 1/4 watt power variety. But I have no idea what resistance it should have. Maybe I could replace it?
Why would something like this 'burn up'? The application seems pretty straight forward......but it seems like someone, somewhere (well, China actually), under-engineered something. This was only one string of LEDs, without any further strings daisy-chained on.