Re: Bulbdial – Was working fine – now has odd LED groupings

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myx_2000
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Good point. I meant the actual physical bulb, not the projection bulb. After I posted I realized that being that there are 30 LEDs, that my 10:30 example didn’t really work either. But the approximate position.I have done a visual inspection of the boards and everything looks good, so I will re flow the boards a ring at a time starting with the blue and hitting the resistors first and testing in between steps. Do to a mis following of instructions, I had not read not to snip the vertical resistor leads on the green board. Having been in bass snipping mode due to all the LEDs, I snipped them. After realizing my mistake, when I got the red ring in place I used several snipped LED leads to bridge between the green and red boards. Those were the first things I went after to test as I suspected a bad connection.


Actually I am curious why you chose to use 0 Ohm resistors instead of a wire jumper both on the board and between layers. It is not at all a criticism, just curious from a design standpoint. I am in the middle of a personal board design and I am always interested what brought someone to a decision point.

Thanks Windell