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  1. tim292stro

    Trucklite Tail light and front blinker longevity?

    You'll start to hurt the diodes at anything sustained (longer than a few minutes) over 350F, however, you will start to melt the plastic casing before then. The solder holding the parts to the board should melt in the 240F range. LEDs #1 killer is heat. Running LEDs creates heat at the die...
  2. tim292stro

    Trucklite Tail light and front blinker longevity?

    Try using dental picks wired to the bench power supply to pierce the potting compound before digging into it If it turns out to be on the back (regulators), it would save you some time figuring out which part of the potting compound you want to remove.
  3. tim292stro

    Trucklite Tail light and front blinker longevity?

    The heat won't melt the epoxy until it burns the plastic, FR4 circuit board and melts all of the solder. Those look like red piranha-style LEDs, good news there is that they are CHEAP (in all senses of the word unfortunately). One good thing is that optical epoxy is REPAIRABLE :) - in other...
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