What causes LED bulbs to explode?
I hit my led bulb while jumping rope and few minutes later it exploded. Now whenever I place a bulb in that socket the new bulb heats up, components burn and it explodes.
Is it high current or what? It's driving me nuts.
What causes LED bulbs to explode?
Juan Wright
Cameron Jones
Probably cracked or bent the socket so it makes contact on a very small surface area. That means lots of current on little space which makes lots of heat.
Robert Price
call a fucking electrician to look at the fitting, idiot
you're 3 seconds away from literally burning to death
Sebastian Fisher
Hey! That actually makes sense. Thanks for the quick response.
Adam Murphy
Have a good one
Jacob Young
You mean it's flashing on and off? You broke a gold bond wire.
John Peterson
When I hit the bulb it flashed once and then went to normal state. 1 or 2 minutes later it exploded. Placed a new bulb there, everything looking normal, no flashing. It explodes in 1 or 2 minutes again.
I probably fucked up the socket.
Oliver Harris
Use your oscilloscope across a current shunt and a voltage divider to see if you're getting spikes that kill your LEDs. You're sure you've got LEDs rated for your house voltage? Check the inside of the broken ones and see whether they're using a capacitive dropper or a dedicated CC buck converter. The bulb itself exploding (assuming you mean there was some form of eruption within the plastic case) probably won't be from heat down in the socket, more likely an electrical fault of some sort. If you can post images of the internal electronics (just peel the screw open with some pliers) of the bulb I should be able to diagnose what happened.
Brayden Edwards
So there are 2 sockets for the lamp in the room that it happened. Same bulbs, other one is working fine.
Sebastian Butler
And on top of that this had happened. That's the first bulb.
The next bulb placed has the same burns, no bends.