Autopsy on failed 240V LED garden lantern with PIR.
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OK, this would have been a much more thorough autopsy and possibly even repair if I hadn't inadvertently shorted the live 240V rail to the DC side of the dropper. It made quite a bang, blew a chunk out of my meter probe and also blew quite a lot of tracks off the PCB and nuked several components in the process.
Annoyingly I didn't catch the bang on video as I was trying to keep the video short due to the arduous upload times using the crushingly slow Internet connections available on the Isle of Man.
For comparison a 1 hour video takes about 7 hours to upload over 4G on the Isle of Man versus just 30 minutes on the Three-network in Glasgow.
On a plus note, while the PIR module is toast the driver and LED panel are fine, and usable as they are.
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Annoyingly I didn't catch the bang on video as I was trying to keep the video short due to the arduous upload times using the crushingly slow Internet connections available on the Isle of Man.
For comparison a 1 hour video takes about 7 hours to upload over 4G on the Isle of Man versus just 30 minutes on the Three-network in Glasgow.
On a plus note, while the PIR module is toast the driver and LED panel are fine, and usable as they are.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
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