20W LED Tubelight Teardown

LED tubelight teardown
LED tubelight teardown
LED tubelight teardown
LED tubelight teardown LED strip

The circuit is mostly similar to those in LED bulbs. You have the input protection Metal Oxide Varistors (MOVs), Bridge rectifiers and a cheapo buck LED driver IC MT7844S. The LED strip consists of 100 LEDs (4 Parallel arms with 25 LEDs in series) with an open circuit voltage of around 75V. These LED strips are made on a metal-clad PCB which acts as a heatsink along with the metallic tube to dissipate the heat. The diffuser on top provides even illumination along its length.

These are pretty cheap to manufacture. Since circuitry inside is more or less the same as an LED bulb there will be huge reuse of BOM materials across products(Implying lesser costs). This is also one of the reasons why LED tube lights and LED bulbs(slightly lesser wattage) are sold more or less in the same price bracket.

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My First PCB Design

Was going through my old electronics stuff back home and found this beauty. Probably the first PCB design which got made when I was a student with a friend of mine. Should be at least 12-13 years old. Locally etched, single layer.
It was for a line follower robot competition. 5 IR LED pairs and an L293D DC motor driver IC. I believe we got it working fine without any external help. These were the days before 2-day PCB delivery services, full-fledged electronic blogs, YouTube video tutorials, eCommerce component websites or heck even before proper broadband connectivity at home. 1GB per month data plan for the whole family with a blistering speed of 256KBps. Oh, those were the days…

It was super hard to do electronics in India during those times (And probably still is…)

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