I posted back in February that I had a couple of LED striplights in the workshop that weren’t working and that I was going to try to replace the capacitors in the power supply to see if that would fix them. It took a while to get hold of the capacitors because I had to piggy-back them on someone else’s order (the components weren’t expensive, but delivery was going to quadruple the cost), but they arrived eventually and today was the day.
I have to report mixed success. The first worked perfectly with the new capacitors in place.
The second still didn’t work properly. Only a small section of the LED strips lit up and not a full brightness, so I assume there’s something else wrong with the power supply too. There’s very little else I could replace anyhow, so I think I might have to declare that one dead, or perhaps rig up some alternative sort of supply (perhaps use a wall wart wired straight into the LED strips if I can work out the intended voltage?) and use the light elsewhere.
