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I recently invested in the now famous 4' LED light from Sam's Club. Unfortunately, on my first attempt to flush mount it, I drilled a 1/4" hole straight through the circuit board.
The LEDs themselves may be fine. Is there some common household device that I could substitute for a circuit board? I'm thinking an extra wall wart charger, but I keep reading about current regulating and am very unsure.
So I'm throwing it out to the WN braintrust. Any ideas?
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P.S. This light appears to be configured to have four sets of 60 LEDs each wired in series. So 240 LEDs total.
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I take it that it doesn't work? It almost looks like you just drilled through a trace, and that it didn't damage anything too useful
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Lots of cheap power supplies on amazon and aliexpress. Just get one that will fit with similar wattage. Usually only a couple bucks shipped for that size. I can find a few to link if you need. But yes a 12v wall wort will usually work just fine as well and usually free.
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Robert Adams said:
Lots of cheap power supplies on amazon and aliexpress. Just get one that will fit with similar wattage. Usually only a couple bucks shipped for that size. I can find a few to link if you need. But yes a 12v wall wort will usually work just fine as well and usually free.
What wattage/voltage do you think I should look for? 3V? 5V? 9V? Your talking sounds like my idea has some merit. Would love to salvage $35 on this project.
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given that it's driving so many LED's in series, I suspect it just rectifies and smooths out the 120vac, so it's 144vdc. It has isolation too. You probably aren't going to find such a thing easily.