I never would have considered repairing those, let alone, improving the design; good job!

4:11 Nice Batman reference! Zap!! Pow!!! 😂🎵

this solution is cheaper and gives a nice fix opportunity

Thermal pads from old CDROM drives would work as well, you get around 3 per drive, enough for doing all those lamps with better (and free from ewaste) heat transfer. 5 minute epoxy also works well for this, though of course now the lamp is not easy to remove again. To pop those lenses out use a bamboo skewer, works well for me, or use disposable wooden chopsticks.

I use a lot of very expensive LED warning lamps from various top manufacturers. They don’t have anywhere near the life they claim and they don’t have enough confidence to offer you more than a 12 month warranty.

Thank you

Good

Does it matter which side you put the red and black wire on the disk

To get the cover off, i use a air compresser, it comes off in a minute.

Crazy that these LEDs are not more reliable. I just bought a string of summer porch LEDs lights with palm tree covers. In a string of 10, 5 were bad right out of the box!!

Pisses me off how nothing you buy lasts anymore. Although I do not like them, or endorse them anymore, I still have several WORKING incandecent bulbs left in this house from when it was built in 1999.

@TheDefpom

5 жыл бұрын

Daveyk021 - the use of flouresent and led is over rated, yes they use less power etc, but you generate a huge amount of waste making and disposing of them due to them not lasting very long, like you I still have bulbs from over 20 years ago that work, I have had to replace the kitchen flouro and now led about 10 times in the past 5 years... which is really better for the environment?

@SeanBZA

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheDefpom Depends on the quality, I use fluorescent lamps a lot, but buying good brands, made in a good factory, makes a big difference. Have plenty of fluorescent lamps which do 10 years of service as night lights, and I am half way through the box of Osram Hungary and Phillips France lamps. Going to be sad when it is finished, as the newer ones are no longer made in EU, and have a much shorter life.

@TheDefpom

5 жыл бұрын

SeanBZA - NZ doesn’t import the good stuff for general sale, we seem to get all the crap stuff, even main brands are of poor quality, it doesn’t help that retailers seem to rip us off too, with massive markups so if something is of good quality it is so expensive that people don’t buy it.

I have issue with my ender 3 can you help me please?

Might be worth try a compressor with just a blower attachment on it and sealing the other holes with your fingers to spread the pressure on the plastic a bit. Just a thought

@TheDefpom

5 жыл бұрын

Josh lever - I don’t have an air compressor, if I did doing something similar could work yes, HOWEVER and I don’t mean to be critical this comment is more of an educational one, but having compressed air against your skin is very dangerous, it can get through the skin and cause an air bubble in your bloodstream, which can kill you, compressed air is actually rather dangerous, especially if you have a cut or something on your hands.

@reg123able

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheDefpom yeah I get what your saying completely! I was more thinking just a few psi to put a little pressure against it you could even bung the holes with blue tack or something alike

@abeleski

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheDefpom never heard of this before and i am not that young. Geeez.

Have you tried a mobile phone screen sucker for removing the cover.

@TheDefpom

5 жыл бұрын

john flower - the surface is rough so it can’t get a seal on it.

I replaced a disk and when I plugged it in it was flashing

@TheDefpom

3 жыл бұрын

Flashing is usually due to a bad LED, it could also be the driver is faulty though.

Are they 6v leds ?

@TheDefpom

5 жыл бұрын

Adrian Higgins - 38V, 280mA

My theory is that their been driven too hard

@TheDefpom

5 жыл бұрын

Adrian Higgins - yes that is my theory too, once I get my DC load up and running again I will get one of the spare drivers and test it’s output voltage and current, they are supposed to run at no more than 38V and about 280mA.

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