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John Bokma
Out of a batch of 50 UV LEDs two have "died" somehow. With the first one I
thought it was a bad connection, so I re-soldered the LED, and it worked.
When I turned the circuit off for some time, same problem. So again I
thought: "cold" connection, re-heated it, and worked...
But when the circuit got cold again, same problem. I replaced the LED, and
no problems for hours.
Two days ago, however, another LED stopped working, same problem. Heating
it, it works again. This time I was able to "see" (indirectly, UV LEDs can
harm your eyes) what happened: the three LEDs in series started to flicker
for some time, and then all went off. Heating it -> works.
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? Just 2 bad LEDs out of 50?
See http://johnbokma.com/pet/scorpion/detection-using-uv-leds.html for the
circuit diagram.
Also: I use most of the time 9V to feed this circuit, so I doubt it has
anything to do with overloading the LEDs.
TIA,
thought it was a bad connection, so I re-soldered the LED, and it worked.
When I turned the circuit off for some time, same problem. So again I
thought: "cold" connection, re-heated it, and worked...
But when the circuit got cold again, same problem. I replaced the LED, and
no problems for hours.
Two days ago, however, another LED stopped working, same problem. Heating
it, it works again. This time I was able to "see" (indirectly, UV LEDs can
harm your eyes) what happened: the three LEDs in series started to flicker
for some time, and then all went off. Heating it -> works.
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? Just 2 bad LEDs out of 50?
See http://johnbokma.com/pet/scorpion/detection-using-uv-leds.html for the
circuit diagram.
Also: I use most of the time 9V to feed this circuit, so I doubt it has
anything to do with overloading the LEDs.
TIA,