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Heavy Metal Meltdown, Backbox LED Cure?

By Joker2415

6 years ago



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#1 6 years ago

I tried looking around real quick. Thought I would post while I'm looking.

I have a single bulb in the backbox and one in the topper. The kind of bulbs that would go into your lamp or light socket in a room. They were switched to LED. They flash! I noticed in videos online the lights don't flash like mine do, mine strobe. If I put a regular screw in bulb in? It works like it should.

What do I need to do? Is it just adding a resistor somewhere? Because the LED's aren't pulling enough?

Thanks for any help!

#3 6 years ago
Quoted from Inkochnito:

The lamp is controlled like a solenoid via a Solid State relay board.
This is a switching triac which gets pulsed all the time.
That is why the led bulb is strobing.
Use a regular light bulb is my advise.

Thank you!

I can put a regular light bulb in. And that's what I'll do for now. Was hoping there was an easy way to use the LED's.

Thanks again!

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