Led light burned out
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Topic: Led light burned out
Posted By: broncobilly
Subject: Led light burned out
Date Posted: November 22 2015 at 6:53pm
 one of my leds on my light just burnt out does anybody know where to buy a new one?------------- Denver Broncos #1 65GAL & 10GAL SALT WATER REEF 150GAL & 55GAL FRESH WATER. |
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Posted By: Krazie4Acans
Date Posted: November 22 2015 at 6:56pm
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If you buy the regular star LEDs you can unsolder the led from the star and then use that to replace it. ------------- My ocean. 90g (yup, won it!), 40g, 28g, & 10g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63568&title=krazies-nano-paradise" rel="nofollow - Tank Thread: |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: November 22 2015 at 8:27pm
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You are hardcore if you actually go replace that one bulb. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Krazie4Acans
Date Posted: November 22 2015 at 8:41pm
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I must be hardcore because I do it all the time. :) ------------- My ocean. 90g (yup, won it!), 40g, 28g, & 10g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63568&title=krazies-nano-paradise" rel="nofollow - Tank Thread: |
Posted By: broncobilly
Date Posted: November 22 2015 at 9:01pm
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can you buy star led's here in town? or just online? for now I just jumper-ed the one out. and i'm up and running again :) ------------- Denver Broncos #1 65GAL & 10GAL SALT WATER REEF 150GAL & 55GAL FRESH WATER. |
Posted By: phys
Date Posted: November 23 2015 at 2:22am
| White or blue? I have a few spares depending on what you need. |
Posted By: Krazie4Acans
Date Posted: November 23 2015 at 6:49am
Be careful as you have just increased the voltage on some of your LEDs and more will begin to fail now. ------------- My ocean. 90g (yup, won it!), 40g, 28g, & 10g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63568&title=krazies-nano-paradise" rel="nofollow - Tank Thread: |
broncobilly wrote:Posted By: Fatman
Date Posted: November 23 2015 at 11:28am
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It's hard to find those around town. Online is much easier, but you need to know the color, forward voltage and current max to match it. Or you can just guess and live with one that's slightly off color or not the same brightness as the others. |
Posted By: Baghtal
Date Posted: November 23 2015 at 3:39pm
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RA Elco Not sure about that specific LED, but these guys have pretty much everything... https://local.ksl.com/listings/raelco-inc/30635 ------------- I like to think that the moon is there, even when I'm not looking at it. ~Albert Einstein |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: November 24 2015 at 8:48am
Love that place.  If all there are is white emitting and blue emitting LED's in this unit, it is not difficult to know. An LED that is yellow when off, usually emits a shade of white, right? Aloha, Mark  ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: broncobilly
Date Posted: November 24 2015 at 5:13pm
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it was a white that burned out. do you have one? if so how much? so if i leave it jumperd out is this bad? they are on a dimmer that i only have to 45% ------------- Denver Broncos #1 65GAL & 10GAL SALT WATER REEF 150GAL & 55GAL FRESH WATER. |
Posted By: Krazie4Acans
Date Posted: November 24 2015 at 5:36pm
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I don't have any at the moment. Dimming on these lights is done by turning them on and off very quickly. The longer the off time the more dim the light appears to our eye. That being said when the led is on its on at it's Max current and voltage. You already had one led go out under those conditions, now you've jumpered one of them and increased the village and current going through the remainder of the LEDs. I think you can see where this might lead. ------------- My ocean. 90g (yup, won it!), 40g, 28g, & 10g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63568&title=krazies-nano-paradise" rel="nofollow - Tank Thread: |
Posted By: Erikts
Date Posted: November 24 2015 at 6:02pm
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I have a white led you can have. Pm me your address and I'll drop it in the mail. ------------- 34G solana |