Ocean King Corals
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Most often than not... many have a chinese led quit working on either the blue channel or white channel. And more often than not... its assumed its a driver. A led tester is pretty simple to make with 2 double A batteries... especially if youve got an old kids toy laying around. Ive repaired tons of led units as well as converted them to full spectrum. I thought I'd share that process.
Here I took the housing apart to expose the solder joints of the unit. This particular unit had all working leds but consisted of only blues and whites
Using a solder iron to heat the old joint as to remove 1 of the white leds
I removed 4 white leds to put in the greens and reds along with 6 additional leds that i put a slightly different white.
I thrn did the same on the blue channel to add a few uv and violets
I thrn pulled out 2 different optics to use. Using the 90s on the perimeter of the unit and 60s on the interior
Optics in place and one final test before assembling the unit back together
And now running together to have full spectrum
Here I took the housing apart to expose the solder joints of the unit. This particular unit had all working leds but consisted of only blues and whites
Using a solder iron to heat the old joint as to remove 1 of the white leds
I removed 4 white leds to put in the greens and reds along with 6 additional leds that i put a slightly different white.
I thrn did the same on the blue channel to add a few uv and violets
I thrn pulled out 2 different optics to use. Using the 90s on the perimeter of the unit and 60s on the interior
Optics in place and one final test before assembling the unit back together
And now running together to have full spectrum
