On Friday, March 29, 2013 7:25:41 PM UTC-4, Rheilly Phoull wrote:
On 30/03/13 05:00, wrote:

Can you not just take the output of the battery to drive the LED's ??

With a buck-up converter, yes.

You would need to intercept that output into the flouro driver cct.

Fluorescent drivers, now we're talking. Keep in mind I never worked with fluorescent tubes before, so I didn't know there was a thing called 'fluorescent driver' to begin with

Now looking at the board, I see one Fairchild semi KA7808 1A voltage regulator, and two HS882 3-pin ICs next to test pins labeled 'output 1' and 'output 2' which surely means for tube#1 and tube#2.

Looking at the HS882 it's a 'switching power amplifier'...
http://www.soiseek.com/HUASHAN/HS882/ hmmm...

food for thought... but no more ICs...
after your comment wrt 'fluo driver' I was expecting it to have something like this
http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/produ...ab6a6f890 4fe

but it doesn't.

FC