Building L E D Night Lights Images

"Note this batch actually has some heatsink goo...:"

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Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:09am

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"Clear up the star and the LED - note the terminals and pads have been cleaned up:"

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Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:14am

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"Removing the retainer:"

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Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:07am

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"Apply Arctic Silver 5 (pretty much the best available) heatsink goo onto the faces between the star and the body. Tighten the screws. Now we need to remove resistor R04 because it is somewhat under-rated for the ~0.4 Watts it needs to dissipate inside a hot body... It is shown here:"

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Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:15am

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"Two 0.6Watt 0.2 Ohm resistors in parallel are my choice… Remember it will be hot in there (crap photography again) [corrected value typo here too]:"

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Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:17am

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"Turn it up!"

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Posted on: Mon 11/Oct/10 6:38pm

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Posted on: Wed 9/Jul/08 9:32pm

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