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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: redhat on December 09, 2016, 0109 UTC

Title: LED bulb teardowns
Post by: redhat on December 09, 2016, 0109 UTC

Always neat to see the inner workings of stuff.  There are some guys on the internet that do just this, buy it, then take it apart and see how it works.

Some vintage filament style bulbs
https://youtu.be/NffhdAz9pc4 (https://youtu.be/NffhdAz9pc4)

A more conventional LED bulb
https://youtu.be/n6DDFRBrSas (https://youtu.be/n6DDFRBrSas)

+-RH

Title: Re: LED bulb teardowns
Post by: Terry on December 10, 2016, 0044 UTC

Those were interesting. Thanks for posting.

Title: Re: LED bulb teardowns
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 11, 2016, 1838 UTC

Thanks for sharing the links, quite interesting!

Title: Re: LED bulb teardowns
Post by: Pigmeat on December 12, 2016, 0003 UTC

We should double dog dare these guys to snort the powder that comes out of CFL's.

Title: Re: LED bulb teardowns
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 12, 2016, 0030 UTC

Quote from: Pigmeat on December 12, 2016, 0003 UTC

We should double dog dare these guys to snort the powder that comes out of CFL's.

We don't need more operators on 14313.

Title: Re: LED bulb teardowns
Post by: Pigmeat on December 12, 2016, 2203 UTC

The mercury causes them to drop to 75/80 meters. It's a heavy metal.

Speaking of which I heard someone blasting Bon Jovi in the AM window on 75 a few nights back. Hair metal, proof that mercury and high levels of RF cause brain damage