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Funny story « on: May 26, 2020, 11:26:08 AM » Author: RadxD461
 Funny story, my dad bought a LED flood light and we used it all the time. One day the flood light stopped working so I threw it on the ground as hard as I could to try to break it, and then turn it back on and it actually lit up!! The next night it stopped working again.    So I threw it on the ground again, and then it actually shattered to pieces. That's how stupid LEDs are!!!!!!
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Re: Funny story « Reply #1 on: May 26, 2020, 11:34:41 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
Its always fun to demolish an item that has dies like that :lol:
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Re: Funny story « Reply #2 on: May 26, 2020, 02:53:17 PM » Author: Rommie
Best thing to do with an LED  :P :lol:
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Re: Funny story « Reply #3 on: May 26, 2020, 04:44:55 PM » Author: Ash
Also works with stuck starters for Fluorescents - Sometimes....
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Re: Funny story « Reply #4 on: May 26, 2020, 04:52:57 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
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Also works with stuck starters for Fluorescents - Sometimes....
Yep it does :)
but if you slam them on the floor too hard, the glass bulb inside breaks .LOL.LOL.
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Re: Funny story « Reply #5 on: June 11, 2020, 07:56:00 PM » Author: Bulbman256
Funny story, my dad bought a LED flood light and we used it all the time. One day the flood light stopped working so I threw it on the ground as hard as I could to try to break it, and then turn it back on and it actually lit up!! The next night it stopped working again.    So I threw it on the ground again, and then it actually shattered to pieces. That's how stupid LEDs are!!!!!!

Was it an integrated led fixture or bulb?
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Re: Funny story « Reply #6 on: June 11, 2020, 08:10:52 PM » Author: RadxD461
Was it an integrated led fixture or bulb?
it was a integrated LED fixture
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Re: Funny story « Reply #7 on: June 12, 2020, 12:44:29 AM » Author: Binarix128
Best thing to do with an LED  :P :lol:
Have you said the L word?!  :poof:

But yes, smashing L fixtures or bulbs is quite funny.  ;D  Depending how bad or good was your day will say how smashed the lamp is.  ;D

I wonder if you smash an L lamp it will releases its toxic materials.
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Re: Funny story « Reply #8 on: June 12, 2020, 02:14:45 AM » Author: Ash
It had released its toxic materials before it was even assembled (the real acrid stuff flows out in gallons from the semiconductor refining process. But its far away in China so according to the EU, it doesn't affect global warming in the EU)
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Re: Funny story « Reply #9 on: June 12, 2020, 06:09:06 AM » Author: Rommie
The day I believe anything the EU tells me will be the day I see pigs doing a fly-past  ::)
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Re: Funny story « Reply #10 on: June 12, 2020, 07:00:14 PM » Author: Bulbman256
it was a integrated LED fixture

Then yes, id totally deserved it as most of them a crap. :lol:
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Re: Funny story « Reply #11 on: June 22, 2020, 01:25:20 PM » Author: Metal Halide Boy
When electric motor seize (jam) up, sometimes you can hit them with a hammer, amd they will work again.
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Re: Funny story « Reply #12 on: June 22, 2020, 01:47:53 PM » Author: Ash
Motors dont randomly seize out of the blue. Trying to fix such stuff with a hammer is most likely to do nothing except more damage

There can be something mechanical stuck in there, and if the motor had been powered, it pinched the foreign object so it won't come out easily. Besides, the object might come loose then get stuck somewhere else and do more damage (hit windings, ...). Besides, the object could be a broken part of something else in the gear...

There can be a lubrication problem - Missing lubricant, crap lubricant that became sticky with age, ..

And there could be electrical problem - Bad capacitor, missing phase, ..
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Re: Funny story « Reply #13 on: June 23, 2020, 10:21:50 AM » Author: Metal Halide Boy
Motors dont randomly seize out of the blue. Trying to fix such stuff with a hammer is most likely to do nothing except more damage

There can be something mechanical stuck in there, and if the motor had been powered, it pinched the foreign object so it won't come out easily. Besides, the object might come loose then get stuck somewhere else and do more damage (hit windings, ...). Besides, the object could be a broken part of something else in the gear...

There can be a lubrication problem - Missing lubricant, crap lubricant that became sticky with age, ..

And there could be electrical problem - Bad capacitor, missing phase, ..


I know, but much of the time, it works. I ussally put in some oil, and then hit it (Not very hard, of course) and it works!
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