steptoe wrote:covered in a shipload of ~3 mm white LEDS, the dead ones went a mouse pee brown stain look
Yeah they are crap, no constant current driver in them, just a resistor, which is probably why they died
Subyroo wrote:Is there much difference in the lighting in respect of intensity and color with those LED bulbs Gannon?
There are usually 2 or 3 colours to choose from, warm white 3000k, which is about the same yellowness of a regular halogen, neutral white 5000k, which is a really white light like my interior light above, and then there is cool white 7000k which is a bluish colour
They are only about 1/2 to 2/3 the brightness of a regular halogen, but seeing as they use about 1/10 the power of a halogen they are worth it. The tricky bit is finding a transformer that will run them. Iron core transformers actually waste more power than the LED itself, but most electronic transformers wont work with LED because the LED doesnt draw enough to power to satisfy the transformer, they end up just flickering. There are a few LED drivers on the market but finding one that works with dimmers is tricky
... Did you try just a single panel ?
