Repairing Color Blast LEDs

[LiteMoves]

Has anyone had any experience repairing Color Kinetics (or any) LED units?

 

I have a Color Blast 12 in which half the red LEDs have failed, and several more that have shattered glass. The body doesn't seem to be designed to be opened up, and I've been told that removing the front glass somehow ruins the LEDs.

 

Any suggestions or opinions on this?

[Mush]

Has anyone had any experience repairing Color Kinetics (or any) LED units?

 

I have a Color Blast 12 in which half the red LEDs have failed, and several more that have shattered glass. The body doesn't seem to be designed to be opened up, and I've been told that removing the front glass somehow ruins the LEDs.

 

Any suggestions or opinions on this?

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Think aready says enough about quality of Color Kinetics product and backup, totally different from their legal team....

 

As far as I remember with Color Blasts that have looked at with non frosted front its one PCB at back with no real restriction on removal of front glass.

 

If its the LEDs that have failed , rather than internal current limiter or power device, only gotcha is trying to get similar binned colour of red. LEDs vary in same colours due to manufacturing tolerance, they are sorted by the manufacturer to colour `bins` Red can go a bit orange or a bit ruby depending on the bin.Not huge difference but enough to make matching desirable where possible. i.e. replace all the reds at one go in a Luxeon LED based unit.

 

As your other side of pond cannae be of more direct help but PMed you a suggestion for someone who may be able to help in the U.S.

[Brian Ship]

I can't speak for replacing the LED's but have replaced a few lenses. I custom order them thru a glass supplier.

 

1/8"x5"x12.1/4" Soda Lime HS w/SB 1 Side. Tempered Frosted Safety Glass.

 

Just a question of carefully removing the safety glass and scraping the old adhesive out of the frame without slipping and damaging any of the electronics.

 

Last time I did so, given gloves and safety glasses, a pair of duck bill pliers and a sharp but not my best chisel worked well to remove the glass and scrape the adhesive.

 

RTV silicone is than used to install the new glass lens, and as long as there is not a problem electronically it works just fine. Test the fixture before you install the new lens for obvious reasons.