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Merlin garage door opener with blue LED lamp

2012-06-05 99 Dailymotion

The 25Watt interior pilot lamp had failed, and as you know those jobs often get left to:'' I do it later, or haven't got the right size lamp''.<br />My lamp failed about ½ year ago and I decided to sort it out for once and for all, hence the LED option was chosen.<br />Instead of white led's I opted for the blue led's as it looks very cool and gives plenty of light in the garage to find my way around.<br />The resistors are set up 3 sets in series of (6k8 1 Watts in parrallel).<br />Totals a 10k2 ohms 6 Watt resistor.<br />From U=I*R therefore 240 / 10200 = 23.5 mA.<br />Power rating I²R yields 5.6 Watts.<br />As the lamp is only on for 10 minutes max. there is no overheating issue here.

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