LED Help

[lawless]

I was fixing my string of whites yesterday cause I had one led burnt out. Everything worked fine for a second then my blue string went out. It still gets some power cause they light up but it is very dim. It is the rapid LED set up. Any ideas on what would prevent them from going bright?

 

[rovster]

Are they on a dimmer?

 

[lawless]

They are on a PWM dimmer but even at 100% they are dim. The dimmer has no effect on them, They are either on or off and when they are on they are very dim. When I hook the dimmer up to the color string they fire up perfect.

 

[Biggar]

Im guessing you soldered them. Probably a loose connection.

LEDs usually are broke or not. Try to find bad connection

 

[rovster]

Yeah, sounds like a bad connection.

 

[lawless]

They are solderless and all light up although dim. Not sure how to put up a picture here but I have one.

 

[lawless]

Thanks again for the help!

 

[knukles55]

ive heard about that problem with the soderless leds. when I first purchased mine and assembled it my driver ended up being bad making it do the same thing just making the leds really dim