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These new driverless LEDs are getting very common because they are cheap.  So here's what one looks like inside.

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Driverless 50W LED teardown and schematic.

A complete teardown of one of the new driverless LEDs. It's interesting that these devices seem to be based on the chips used in some LED filament lamps. They seem to share a common array of LEDs, but have a number of driver chips bussed in parallel according to the power rating.

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Al Hunt

Google didn't help on this for me - is there such a thing as a frequency doubler for AC? Is that something that could be hacked on to reduce the flicker? I suppose you could also cut away some silicone and add a few caps.

Anonymous

Google frequency multipliers, though I am surprised you couldn't find anything with the phrase frequency doublers. For though the first few results on Google UK are for Frequency multipliers, the fourth result onwards feature frequency doublers.

Anonymous

Well the circuitry is the same, you just need to uprate the components appropriately. Though to be honest, it would be both much easier and cheaper to just find suitable LED without the flicker.

Anonymous

FYI, audio was poor in this video with the sound being very muffled whenever you were not facing forward.

Anonymous

What might be cool, if you make a few videos on how to refit LEDS into other things, I found some light bulps smaller ones used for older and motors are harder to find,

Anonymous

BTW, Banggood sell these as well and also do a 5 Watt version that is only 13 mm square. Great fixed to a largish piece of aluminium or coper as a passive heat sink. Or if you have a 12 volt DC supply at hand I find VGA style heatsink and fans just about perfect for the 5 watt version. I use two of the 5W ones under a 1.5m long kitchen cupboard were the water boiler is and I make my drinks which are operated automatically by a mains powered PIR switch that also switched them off when it hasn't detected movement for a few minutes as I always forget to switch them off otherwise.

Anonymous

would it be reasonable to think you could drive it with a high voltage DC power?

Anonymous

It seems cheaper to buy these off ebay.com than ebay.co.uk. I've noticed this with other electronics on ebay.

bigclive

Theoretically it could be powered with [pre-rectified and smoothed DC, but the driver chips would get hotter and probably self-limit at the higher voltage compared to the original unsmoothed RMS value.

Peter Eduard

Why not try to smooth it out with a capacitator? Could you try and "fix" one?