I have a EOT that the tiny led quit working the truck part works because i hooked another larger LED to it. I just want to know if anyone knows where I can find the micro LEDS that they use, thanks Jim Guthrie.
My first impulse would be to contact Ring Engineering.
Otherwise you might want to look at Evan Designs. They have a variety of micro and nano LEDs.
http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/ledlights1.html
I’m guessing you probably have a broken solder joint or wire… that stuff is awfully small and fragile!
Good luck, Ed
Instead of trying to replace one of those LEDs and then discover that the problem is a broken wire, I’d contact Ring Engineering and find out what their repair policy is.
Are you sure it is the LED? Might be the elctronics in the truck. I have one of those.
Rich
My vote, unless the supplied factory resistor was insufficient, (which, while it’s possible, so is my winning millions of dollars, but that does not mean it’s likely…[:-^]), is bad solder job, or a broken wire. LED’s don’t normally burn out… Unless you’ve run trains for the last 10,000 hrs straight… Btw, that would be 1 year, 3 months, and a handful of days… 24/7/365 for 468 days… That’s 10,000 hrs. And most LED’s, last at least that long.
I would contact RE about repairing it. I would not want to mess with those tiny wires myself, thank you.
Evan Designs sells an entire FRED kit for ~$6… Before I started messing with replacing an LED…I’d just replace the whole unit… But…that’s just me…YMMV! Good luck! may your freight ALWAYS roll smoothly…and ON TIME!!
At the same time, if a < $1 LED fixes it, great. If the repair is botched, you’re only out the $6 a whole new unit would cost, so it’s not like a simple mistake ruining $100+ of loco or something. I’d probably do both - get a new one to get things back and operational, and then make an attempt to repair the other one. Worst case, you have 1 working unit. Best case, you now have 2, plus a little knowledge and skill gained by the soldering job.
–Randy
I took it apart it is the led, I tested it with another LED and it worked. I think the wire got snagged on something and pulled it out of the LED. I’ll check into the kit mentioned. Thanks for all the input, Jim.