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    LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

    Hi i have an LED garage light. It has two bulbs/strips of led lights in it. One of the bulbs is flashing. I dissassembled the light to get to the LED driver board.

    i am enclosing pictures.

    given that one works and the other does not (ie...flashing) i thought i should be able to fix this.....or at least determine what is wrong.

    the led driver board basically had "two" drivers on the same board. I began probing using my multimeter trying to find differences between the two. Now there may be diff i did not find but one difference i did find was diode6 (D6).

    for the side that worked i measured diode D6 (RS1M...i think this is part number) using diode check and it measure ~0.5V. I measured D6 on the side that does not work and two things: (1) i did not hear the beep (2) the voltage measured was ~ 1.3V.

    I removed D6 from the bad side thinking this is the bad part......i measured D6 removed form the PCB board and it measured good....or at least same as D6 onthe good side ~ 0.5V.

    I then measured across where D6 was on the bad side (ie...with D6 removed from pcb board) and measured the exact same voltage of ~ 1.3V.

    Now i am not an expert but does this mean that the D6 ont he bad side was shorted? If so how do i find the shorted part........if not any ideas on how to proceed from here
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    Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

    I was not sure which "group" to post the question in.....if this is not the correct group let me know which one to put it into and i will move it..........

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      #3
      Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

      your on-board reading may be effected by a charged capacitor.

      did you try swapping the led strips over?

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        #4
        Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

        i am not sure what you mean by swapping the led strips over. If my measurement was affected by a charged capacitor.......why didnt the other LED driver have the same issue?

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          #5
          Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

          might be a shorted capacitor . or that ic
          most likely a cap i would think .
          Last edited by petehall347; 09-01-2021, 04:06 PM.

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            #6
            Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

            i thought i checked all the caps........none were shorted ...i will check again.

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              #7
              Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

              i see one side of d6 goes to r4 ..where does the other side go to ?

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                #8
                Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                Solder joint on F2 seems bad.

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                  #9
                  Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                  the other side of d6 goes to ... i am not sure..........i will try and find out.

                  regarding F2.......i think you mean F1........this solder joint is bad as i had to desolder wire so i could work on the pcb board.

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                    #10
                    Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                    Be aware of the fact that if it a LED module and if a portion of is still working the switching power supply may not allow it to stay on because the current is not correct

                    I was working on some of these LED fixtures over the weekend and this was the issue with some of these lighting fixtures
                    9 PC LCD Monitor
                    6 LCD Flat Screen TV
                    30 Desk Top Switching Power Supply
                    10 Battery Charger Switching Power Supply for Power Tool
                    6 18v Lithium Battery Power Boards for Tool Battery Packs
                    1 XBox 360 Switching Power Supply and M Board
                    25 Servo Drives 220/460 3 Phase
                    6 De-soldering Station Switching Power Supply 1 Power Supply
                    1 Dell Mother Board
                    15 Computer Power Supply
                    1 HP Printer Supply & Control Board * lighting finished it *


                    These two repairs where found with a ESR meter...> Temp at 50*F then at 90*F the ESR reading more than 10%

                    1 Over Head Crane Current Sensing Board ( VFD Failure Five Years Later )
                    2 Hem Saw Computer Stack Board

                    All of these had CAPs POOF
                    All of the mosfet that are taken out by bad caps

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                      #11
                      Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                      in short - a bad led will make the strip flicker.
                      which is why i asked if you swapped them around - to see if it's the leds, or the board

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                        #12
                        Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                        stj, i now see what you're saying...........that would have been a wise thing to try before i desoldered the diode.......let me see if i can resolder it back in without breaking it

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                          #13
                          Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                          Hi, i have not had time to work on this lately but i am planning ot work on this.

                          I did have a question concerning the flashing? Currently i have the pcb board removed from the led lights. instead of "reconnecting" and "swapping" drivers to see if the flashing follows the driver ......could i just connect each LED-strip to say a 9v battery? would this work? will this cause a problem/hurt the devices?

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                            #14
                            Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                            wont work,
                            you need to meter the current they draw.

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                              #15
                              Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                              Originally posted by stj View Post
                              wont work,
                              you need to meter the current they draw.
                              And to expand on his comments just because the led strip might light what you do not know if any of the LEDs on the strip are pulling to much or not enough current so your best be to know for sure that either led strip is good or bad or if the led driver is working correctly or not this why we have suggested that you swap led drivers to check the driver functioning or not
                              9 PC LCD Monitor
                              6 LCD Flat Screen TV
                              30 Desk Top Switching Power Supply
                              10 Battery Charger Switching Power Supply for Power Tool
                              6 18v Lithium Battery Power Boards for Tool Battery Packs
                              1 XBox 360 Switching Power Supply and M Board
                              25 Servo Drives 220/460 3 Phase
                              6 De-soldering Station Switching Power Supply 1 Power Supply
                              1 Dell Mother Board
                              15 Computer Power Supply
                              1 HP Printer Supply & Control Board * lighting finished it *


                              These two repairs where found with a ESR meter...> Temp at 50*F then at 90*F the ESR reading more than 10%

                              1 Over Head Crane Current Sensing Board ( VFD Failure Five Years Later )
                              2 Hem Saw Computer Stack Board

                              All of these had CAPs POOF
                              All of the mosfet that are taken out by bad caps

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                                #16
                                Re: LED light flashing trying to fix LED driver board

                                The readings you get on the diode check setting of your meter doesn't make sense to me. If the diode reads 0.5v when it is removed, then you should get that same reading (or perhaps slightly less) when it's in circuit. Reading 1.3v across the same 2 points on the PCB when the diode is in and out of circuit cannot be right, as you say it reads 0.5v out of circuit.

                                Are you sure that you are keeping the polarity of the probes the same way round when taking all measurements (common [black] lead to banded end of diode)? And the same when probing the pads on the PCB with the diode removed?
                                Last edited by Radio Fox; 09-16-2021, 07:33 AM.
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