Bogart
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- Oct 18, 2009
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So I have harvested about 7 of the A130 projectors now. I usually power them up for a minute or so to verify that they work before going for the diodes.
I power up each diode to test it for good output, and so far have not had a single one come up bad.
This time I used the projector for it's intended purpose for a few hours each day for maybe 10 days before harvesting.
This time in testing, I encountered no less than 3 diodes that were LED'd.
I wonder if operating them for this time "flushed out" the bad ones, or if I just got unlucky and those 3 were dead from the factory.
For the rest of you that harvest these, what have your yields been like?
I also found a fourth diode that appears to have gotten some thermal goop on the window. I don't know if I did that or if it was like that from the factory. I cleaned it with some alcohol on a q-tip and it is improved, but still not as good as a clean one. Any suggestions for cleaning it properly would be most welcome.
Thanks.
I power up each diode to test it for good output, and so far have not had a single one come up bad.
This time I used the projector for it's intended purpose for a few hours each day for maybe 10 days before harvesting.
This time in testing, I encountered no less than 3 diodes that were LED'd.
I wonder if operating them for this time "flushed out" the bad ones, or if I just got unlucky and those 3 were dead from the factory.
For the rest of you that harvest these, what have your yields been like?
I also found a fourth diode that appears to have gotten some thermal goop on the window. I don't know if I did that or if it was like that from the factory. I cleaned it with some alcohol on a q-tip and it is improved, but still not as good as a clean one. Any suggestions for cleaning it properly would be most welcome.
Thanks.