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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: 3246251196 on May 17, 2006, 07:36:56 PM

Title: amiga leds going going.. gone
Post by: 3246251196 on May 17, 2006, 07:36:56 PM

have you guys had this. when your LEDs start to fade.

my power seems to keeping up ok. but F Drive is pretty much dead?

experience this?
what did you do?

Title: Re: amiga leds going going.. gone
Post by: tonyvdb on May 17, 2006, 09:02:33 PM

Are these the LEDs on the amiga or did you add them yourself? LEDs usualy will last forever but dammage can be caused by over curent or spikes. Your power supply may be going. LEDs are easy to relpace but finding the right size may be tough.

Title: Re: amiga leds going going.. gone
Post by: 3246251196 on May 18, 2006, 08:16:27 AM

got them off eBay but when i inserted them the HDD did not light up once at all. whilst the power one works fine for the most part.

you would think they were faulty right?

(they were ORIGINAL 1200 ones too)

Title: Re: amiga leds going going.. gone
Post by: doctorq on May 18, 2006, 08:22:30 AM

Sounds like some of the wires may be broken, or the soldering has gone bad somewhere on the circuit.

Title: Re: amiga leds going going.. gone
Post by: 3246251196 on May 18, 2006, 09:23:07 AM

thats what i was thinking. it may be the soldering. however, i was asking my friend who thinks that it is the LEDs themselves (yet i hear they should last for ever) so what is it more likely to be?

Title: Re: amiga leds going going.. gone
Post by: doctorq on May 18, 2006, 09:25:37 AM

I would still be guessing on soldering or the wires. I have had the same problems with two LED boards, that worked again after resoldering the connectors and wires.

Title: Re: amiga leds going going.. gone
Post by: 3246251196 on May 18, 2006, 09:33:23 AM

think i will try resoldering then and see what happens.

i could get some arbitrary LEDs from Maplins .... ^?^