I assume that LED's are much like transistors and other SS
devices.? Open transistors almost always started as shorted
transistors but the very fine wires that connect the silicon
wafers to the leads will burn out immediately with a short even
with very little current available.? It is almost like a microamp
fuse.? I would expect that a shorted LED would burn open long
before the transformer would feel it.? Just my opinion.
Jerry
On 10/1/2022 9:47 AM, William Barrett,
KW1B via groups.io wrote:
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Assembled Electro-Lords:
Ya know,? I saw those
advertised somewhere a while back and a guy
who?I resepct for his
technical savvy?said they were a bad idea. His
thesis was that LEDs
occasionally go bad in a "short" mode, unlike
conventional bulbs that
virtually always blow "open."? He said a
shorted LED could burn
out the filiment winding on the power
transformer.? Sounded
kinda hyper-picky to me; I never saw a
LED fail in?dead short
mode, myself.? (..and I bin doin' this for
a few decades.)
?
Was he right??
?
If not, I have number of
things I'd like color LEDs for the dials
and meters...
?
(I sold the Drakes a
while back, but the point remains.)
?
? 73
KW1B
