Published on November 12, 2017
You can now buy me cake and things to take apart at:-
You’ll immediately know if you have one of these new breed of LEDs as soon as you pick it up. They feel very “sharp” and lightweight.
Apart from saving money, I’m not sure why these rather flimsy things exist. They look like a 50W LED with 5 rows of 10 chips, but they are very thin and light. I think they may be a way to make a floodlight look like a 50W one but with a smaller driver.
One interesting feature is that the connection tabs are actually in line with the LED rows. So the + and – marks are actually next to their corresponding terminals.
And even with tiny little LED chips with single bonds, the LED was very leaky in terms of the parallel resistance effect across each row.
