led hack Satco 62928.

So I bought a few of these shop 4' led lamps from the local hardware store. Satco 62-928. I find they are a bit bright, So I thought I might be able to hack them. Indeed a simple circuit, Schematic and photos below. Link to shared folder.

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(Sorry dropbox flipped the photos over...) There are two one ohm sense resistors. (in parallel) with ~150 mV (DC) across them. (Measurements made with DMM in the presence of a lot of AC...10-20 V) Huh I said to myself If I lifted one of those the current would drop by half along with the light. It worked! AC current dropped from 0.336 A to 0.160 A. And light also fell by 1/2, 310 uA to 170 uA. (photo current measured with cheap photodiode and DMM in DC current mode.)

One thing I found puzzling is the sense R, sharing a terminal with the output. (feed to big inductor.)

George H.

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Oh DC a few DC measurements, reference to the negative rail. Vin ~114 V, V_led string ~56V (95 LED's presumed 5X19) Voltage above D1 ~65V (pin 1 of the IC)

GH

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