This is the light I bought. It comes apart very easily.
You have to un-solder the wires to the light board to get it out cleanly. Then pry the light board out carefully (not that bad)
The power unit uses the existing wiring for the bulb in the towel warmer.
I’m not a big document everything with pictures type of guy - but maybe this weekend I can open it back up and take a picture of the wiring. Its pretty easy once you get everything apart.
How did u find out the wattage required? Or which sort of “lamp” did it bring? Your new “lamp” reads 20W but my sterilizer reads 10W hmmmm… Perhaps upgrade it with a bigger power source? :? Then put 4 of these (1 top, 1 each side, perhaps 1 lower part) would be 80W hmmmm…Bits bits bits!
Honest answer is - I didn’t…(sort of)
Just figured it would take more power to drive the lamp that was in there than to start an LED array
its the glass tube type bulb - 2 pins on each end and 14 inches long - that bulb is typically 15 watts - and there’s usually some buffer built in to the rating… Start surge on the glass bulb (to me) would be higher than the LED anyway… So it was worth a shot.- had no idea if it would work well. It’s been fine.
I should mention there’s a glass fuse on the outside you could probably change out if you wanted to go bigger or had some issues…
I have one question for mattmc. When you removed the LEDs from the housing that included substantial heat sinks, did you have any problems with over heating the LED’s or did you take other means to manage the LED heat? Thanks in advance.
When you removed the LEDs from the housing that included substantial heat sinks, did you have any problems with over heating the LED’s? Did you take other means to manage the LED heat? Thanks in advance.
Sorry Terry - just caught this.
I can’t remember what it looked like - I think there was a thin aluminum plate the LED’s and IC board was mounted to (not big at all) . The thin plate was glued into the light housing - and I separated that (I think).
I just stuck that aluminum plate to the roof of the unit with 3M double sided tape (grey).
It’s worked fine all this time.
I would put that printer- its tanks and resins in a cabinet enclosure-
You clearly have a high flux of daylight thru the blinds. Anything you can do to minimize the exposure of resin to daylight will improve your results, and the life of the resin in the tanks.