Re: Aerogarden Ultra LED blinking or strobing grow lights repair

@stj :-) my bad

@CapLeaker, Don't have a ESR, what I meant was the caps didn't look mis-shapen and were less than a year old but point taken. Will check the cap above the transformer. I haven't unsoldered the transformer leads to test it, will do so.

I saw a suggestion earlier about using an external PSU to drive the LEDs. Can someone confirm that it's 24V DC @ 6A or higher. I could jury rig that perhaps.

Thanks,

Re: Aerogarden Ultra LED blinking or strobing grow lights repair

This thread has been very helpful!

My Aerogarden (model 100744-BLK) has the same circuit board as the OP. I replaced the 3 caps (CD2a, CD2b and CD3) last year and that fixed the strobing LEDs but they've started strobing again and the caps appear to be good. It appears to me that the problem may be with L1 (an inductor), which is between caps C1 and C2 on the other half of the board. It seems to have leaked some thing on the board. Does anyone know what the spec of this should be so I can find a replacement?...