Expensive marine light.
Added 2018-03-22 13:10:59 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlpXERPv4CM
Second time lucky. Here's the actual video I meant to link last time.
I'll probably re-record this one, since I didn't go deep enough. It's unfortunate that the drive electronics are potted under hard black resin in a heatsink and the LED panel also has a very tough clear coating on the connections making it hard to probe.
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Egads, that is a shrill power drill. May be worth clipping that section out of the video.
2018-03-24 02:12:01 +0000 UTCIt lasted five years. The main failure mode was the traditional LED fatigue.
Big Clive
2018-03-23 11:09:38 +0000 UTCHeavy duty industrial equipment and especially marine stuff is over engineered and very expensive because it is built to last and wont go wrong in a sqally north sea. How long did this one last with its over the top "go faster" heat-sinking and pointless ribbon connections? a few years? Maybe this unit should be returned to manufacturer for their design team to evaluate.
2018-03-23 11:02:22 +0000 UTCIt's very musical when you handle it.
Big Clive
2018-03-23 10:08:20 +0000 UTCThere is nothing better than that tang of the heat sink fingers as you take it apart!
2018-03-23 06:53:50 +0000 UTCIts awesome don’t change a thing!
2018-03-23 06:51:18 +0000 UTCSo say we all
Michael Thompson
2018-03-22 15:40:50 +0000 UTCWell if you make it I'll watch it.
2018-03-22 15:36:29 +0000 UTCIt's tricky because it's hard potted into a heatsink case. That's also why I may just re-record this video going deeper.
Big Clive
2018-03-22 15:08:40 +0000 UTCmildly disappointed you didnt hack it open more
Orkekum
2018-03-22 13:38:49 +0000 UTCThis is a very similar fixture to industrial LED fixtures that make their way across my bench at work for repair evaluation. The ones I've been running into are completely potted in and nothing can be accessed, not even the LED panel. -Those have to be disposed, there's nothing for it. I wonder if heat/cold cycles made the connections to the ribbon cable brittle?
Michael Thompson
2018-03-22 13:25:21 +0000 UTC
