Re: Cheap CFL teardown after failure
Nice... reminded me of the two cfl lightbulbs I posted a while ago here.
Now that I have an ESR meter I decided to have a second look at one of them - on the other the glass broke.
So removed the main capacitors from the pcb and the one by the lamp wires - i forget how it's called.
The main ones are 3.3uF 250v, one is open and the other has 15 ohm esr and 2.6uF capacity. The green one is toast, open. Brand is some no-name with letters c and y inside a diamond shape.
Too much to bother fixing, esp. as I don't have the replacements around. And... the other green cap on the board is probably also toast.
Nice... reminded me of the two cfl lightbulbs I posted a while ago here.
Now that I have an ESR meter I decided to have a second look at one of them - on the other the glass broke.
So removed the main capacitors from the pcb and the one by the lamp wires - i forget how it's called.
The main ones are 3.3uF 250v, one is open and the other has 15 ohm esr and 2.6uF capacity. The green one is toast, open. Brand is some no-name with letters c and y inside a diamond shape.
Too much to bother fixing, esp. as I don't have the replacements around. And... the other green cap on the board is probably also toast.
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