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LED Light Bulb Teardown

Written By: Wiley (and one other contributor)
Published: February 18, 2023
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LED Light Bulb Teardown

Written By: Wiley (and one other contributor)
Published: February 18, 2023
  • Comments: 0
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Teardown

Introduction

Teardown of a standard LED light bulb

What you need

This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your LED Birne 230V, use our service manual.

  1. LED Light Bulb Teardown, Removing Diffuser: step 1, image 1 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Removing Diffuser: step 1, image 2 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Removing Diffuser: step 1, image 3 of 3

    • Carefully cut and pry with razor blades between the diffuser and body of light bulb

    • Diffuser is sealed onto body of bulb

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  2. LED Light Bulb Teardown, Body without Diffuser: step 2, image 1 of 2 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Body without Diffuser: step 2, image 2 of 2

    • 15 LEDs spread in ring

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  3. LED Light Bulb Teardown, Cross section of body: step 3, image 1 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Cross section of body: step 3, image 2 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Cross section of body: step 3, image 3 of 3

    • Filing into the side of the bulb

    • Top layer is circuit board

    • V-shaped metal is casing about 1mm thick

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  5. LED Light Bulb Teardown, Removing Circuit Board: step 4, image 1 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Removing Circuit Board: step 4, image 2 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Removing Circuit Board: step 4, image 3 of 3

    • With open gap circuit board can be removed

    • Attached with wire and resistor to base of bulb

    • Release clips to release wires

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  6. LED Light Bulb Teardown, Remove Capacitor: step 5, image 1 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Remove Capacitor: step 5, image 2 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Remove Capacitor: step 5, image 3 of 3

    • Capacitor is removed as previous wires in Step 4 were removed

    • Capacitor is 10 mircoFarads

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  7. LED Light Bulb Teardown, Remove Resistor: step 6, image 1 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Remove Resistor: step 6, image 2 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, Remove Resistor: step 6, image 3 of 3

    • Resistor removed by popping of bottom cap

    • Resistor is 4.7 ohms

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  8. LED Light Bulb Teardown, All Parts: step 7, image 1 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, All Parts: step 7, image 2 of 3 LED Light Bulb Teardown, All Parts: step 7, image 3 of 3

    • Parts laid out and details

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