Reply to post: RE. Re. Re: Must be a component issue.

Is that a bulge in your pocket or... do you have an iPhone 8+? Apple's batteries look swell

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RE. Re. Re: Must be a component issue.

The "bad caps" are now making an appearance in expen$ive LED lights.

Also found a few Samxon ones which are known bloatware (haha) that when they do fail the SMPS goes into runaway and feeds the LEDs 3-4* rated voltage and current.

This was on a very expensive name brand bulb so doubtless someone forgot to include a suitable fusible resistor because the PCB has "FS1" and a simple track instead of a fuse as it should.

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=49931

Hint: If your equipment smells like fish, check it. Bulbs should not stink no matter how cheap they are, if they do and IR thermometer shows an upward trend its best to change them or at least check against new unit of same brand.

Back to the battery issue, I came up with the idea of an induction scan way back and emailed it to Samsung. Not even a thank you but maybe they are using it already?

Hint: due to screen construction battery has a lot of thermal balancing so it might be simpler to read it from the front, using that graphite sheet as a magnetic field reference.

This is based on my personal research so if anyone wants to see the teardown videos and other fascinating experiments see asianhor.net

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