How to easily repair LED panel drivers in just 5 minutes

LED panels tend to occasionally fail but the most common fault that these panels and their drivers experience is a capacitor failure because of the heat exposure and because they are being constantly pushed to their limits.

In this video, I'm guiding you to how these drivers operate, how they are made, and what you can do to repair them.

Since in most cases, the LED panel itself is not damaged, these repairs are well worth the time of an afternoon to fix a bunch and have them ready for replacement once another one fails.

To repair an LED panel you will need:

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[MohamedUAE]

I like the way how calm and precise you are when talking... Keep it up and i believe you deserve more than 6K followers for such information that you got. Keep it up man.

[TK-setophaga]

Good explanation. I installed about 100 of these and believed they would be maintenance-free. So I don't replace bulbs as I did many years ago. But now I need to fix the electronics. I would have discarded and replaced a bunch of lights if not for your instruction.

[yousufk]

Thanks for the video, I'm definitely going to try and fix the drivers as I seem to be buying a few as they keep on blowing up. I am not an electronic expert, so next time for people like me, please show us the blown and new capacitor side by side so that we know what to look out for.

[josearnaldodacruz]

Thank you for teach how to solve this problem.

[Accumulator]

Appreciate this video discussion. Maybe you can bypass the bad segment of LEDs by connecting + and - wires to connect the segment before to the segment after the bad one. Then all will burn except just few LEDs with minimal loss of illumination.

[TUHS]

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[amoore]

Thank you for the detailed tutorial, I have a ceiling light (LED) that stopped working. I will take it down and try this repair. Hello from Canada!

[oskimac]

Just remove one bad led. By string it by force and bridge the remaining pad w6a blob of solder and you are done. The panel will be running at a diferent voltage (3volt less) but the driver will take care of that.

[oskimac]

I would leave the legs of the first capacitor as long as possible. And not bent it over the board... Keep it as far as you can. To avoid the heat from the chip affecting it on the future

[hansellito]

Good job. I got the same opportunity with sonme drivers... Maybe no anymore, thanks 👍

[muralibommanna]

Thanks for the great video.A nice and clear narration of different steps to repair . I have a driver 18 watt, 50-100v dc, input 230 volts AC has a transformer towards the output side.Is it stepping down the output of bridge rectifier? In one of other videos you had a choke on the output side.

[Elnufo]

i like resourceful thinking, good video sir.

[francisg]

I think you forgot to mention that whenever working with capacitors (regardless of whether good or bad ones) in AC circuits is to always discharge them for the safety reason as not to get an electric shock.. Capacitors do retain some energy even when removed from an AC line..

[Slawek_EU]

In my country, Poland, similar lighting fixtures (lamps) are used, and most often the LED diodes burn out. The power supply is of poor quality, the lack of filters causes interference with FM radio reception.

[GhattasAf]

Oh thanks for this tutorial. I have a 2 color led lamp with multi separate led panels the white color started to flicker randomly. Then after a while the warm color do the same.
What do you think is the wrong with the driver ?
Output is 180-200 v and 230mA

[sergei]

Guys, if you end up fixing these try installing lager caps and not smaller like in the video. and higher voltage if you can squeeze those in place. Lager size and voltage will give you a longer run. Say you had 25V 1000uF install 35V 1000uf. Cap body size is direct reference to how many hours it's designed to run for

[PabloBianchiOK]

Great video! In my case the capacitors looks right, and the values are the expected (measured on the PCB), but the light blink regularly (light half a second off, half a second on; not flickering, as almost all YT videos show). Is this case the same symptom?

[TheBigV_]

14:11
Can I just put a resistor connecting across that particular group of LEDs and make it work?

[sirthomas]

Nice, but capacitors dont appear bad. Is it possible i am putting too many lights off one controller? Is there a way to test the lights or the components themselves with a volt meter to see if they are bad?

[FarizMammadov-qwrc]

Hello, I have a led light that is controlled by a remote control. I ordered this from a distance and it seems to have been damaged in transit.

After turning on the light, when I press with my hand where the drivers are located, the light changes color. (for example, if the white LEDs are on, they turn purple) Sometimes it recognizes the remote control and sometimes it doesn't.

Which element do you think is damaged?