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Well, I know what I did, I gave it too much juice on my LM317 test jig, is what I did. But more specificly, it still works, and makes as much light as ever, but it no longer has that "cluster" pattern, that it did, it looks blurred, now, and doesn't focus correctly. The glass window on the diode case is still intact. Quite frankly, I'm stunned that the the thing actually still works, asside from a few that darkened out, most of the diodes I have trashed just blinked out, and that was that. These things are tough as nails, aren't they? I can't wait to get a couple more of them. But I can'r for the life of me imagine what this one did that messed up the dot without any loss of power, that's just weird. Can you melt a cavity?