Any idea how to replace this LED light? Where to order? Googles finding nothing that looks exactly like this even with the numbers on it. It’s in the dome light in a closet in my condo I recently bought. Numbers on it aren’t turning anything up on Google.
Why would anyone use this rather than a normal light bulb?
Replace the fixture. That shit isn’t made to be replaced like a regular incandescent bulb, they’re supposed to last like 10x as long as a regular bulb and then you throw it in the ocean and get a new one.
So why would anyone use that? Even with 10x length you need 10x the effort or cost to replace it as a normal light bulb.
See, it all evens out! And you got your efficient LED that was low profile and has even light!
Except people don’t factor in Chinese LEDs that fry in half the time of an incandescent bulb.
But for real that shit is easy to replace. It’s two screws and a couple wires. Go find a new fixture you like and stick it up there or git gud at soldering and replace whatever component is fried on that board.
It doesn’t have low profile though, it has the same dome as a bulb. I thought it was a bulb until I took the dome off. And who cares about even light it’s a closet. Just don’t understand why anyone would install this on a 9ft ceiling at that. Is it some green environmental bullshit?
I mean it’s 2023 so you would probably have an LED bulb in there even if it had a regular socket.
Think about it, now you need to go down to Home Depot and get a new fixture instead of spending a couple dollars on a bulb. Home Depot and the manufacturer are happy.
>Any idea how to replace this LED light?
You're supposed to undo the screws, and throw entire fixture into the trash as it is not user serviceable.
>Why would anyone use this rather than a normal light bulb?
Cheaper and in theory should last more than an LED light bulb and be more efficient, but in practice, well, you see it yourself, more cooling = more greed.
As a quick fix, you can get insulated! tweezers or piece of wire and try shorting out each LED with power turned on. Moment it turns on - you've found a bad LED and you can bridge it with any metal wire (for example, a strand of copper wire wound around terminals of LED). Thousands of pajeet videos on youtube repairing light bulbs - same applies to your case.
You can also try replacing the board with LEDs with one you find on aliexpress, but if you can't figure out how to replace LED - you probably wont be able to buy a right one.
Alternatively, you can retrofit this thing with E27 or E26 or whatever edison screw socket base and off the shelf lightbulb, if it fits inside the fixture and use normal lightbulbs. You know, remove LEDs, driver and get yourself shit like this, connect it instead of driver and screw in normal bulb.
No, just long nose tricks all over.
>Except people don’t factor in Chinese LEDs that fry in half the time of an incandescent bulb.
Even namebrand bulbs fail. Only shit that didnt fail on me yet is my DIY lights. Some are working since 2013, and those were pretty dumb lights as it was basically a rectifier bridge, capacitor and 25 pieces of LED strip (so 320VDC in total or there about, which is a correct voltage for 220V country)
>So why would anyone use that?
why would anyone buy a cellphone with a non-replaceable battery?
because frick you, that's why
why wouldn't a company make a bulb that effectively requires an electrician to replace? they can then sell you entire fixtures each time instead of just a bulb
>Replace the fixture.
Correct answer.
You won't find an identical, either. They never do second production runs of this stuff. And no one holds on to them for more than two years.
>why
You think these builders give a shit? Also means more business later.
>10 years
The LEDs last that long, the power supply never does.
Depends on the driver design.
SMPS (buck or flyback) ones are prob harder to design to last as it is very tempting to put just one mains filtering cap.
Capacitive dropper can last for ages, but power factor of 0.2 isn't something you can legally sell.
Linear dropper should last for ages too, but well, it is kinda inefficient.
Yes.
> i have had to change the damn thing about 2x a year.
Same model or ? Maybe you should reduce power output of it, by removing a resistor or something.
Other thing, it is consumers to blame for this shit. Because they are dumb fricks, they want more watts... And manufacturers that sell garbage that overdrives LEDs benefit from it, as it lasts less, and people are more likely to buy it.
Can you into soldering? If yes, no problem. Just unscrew the LED PCB and buy this:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005003929961681.html
(480 LED version)
Cut it into 6 or so pieces at the designated marks, stick it in the place where the outer LED ring was and connect the pieces with wires by soldering.
Then connect to a 12v power supply as this:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005001375107155.html
Or this:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32966888452.html
Or this:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32983648084.html
That's it. These LED stripes practically last forever. As a test, I have one of those rinning since 2010 24/7 no problems.
So is this bullshit common across the board for those flat led "bulbs" like that? My mom bought a low profile ceiling fan for her kitchen that uses a flat panel style led array like that and i have had to change the damn thing about 2x a year... Fricking bullshit.