In message , Simon Stroud
writes
Here's the inside of a cheap LED lamp....

http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk/candle2.jpg


Hmmm that is a bit cheapo.

Probably explains why the one I tried died after a couple of months.

There's nothing wrong with the circuitry really. It's a typical
capacitive dropper. The problem with early lights was the quality of
the LEDs themselves.

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Clive Mitchell
http://www.bigclive.com