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by: fearitself - Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:35 UTC

One of the LEDs on my original AFM mothership has gone out (oh no!!).
Its one of the front-facing ones, probably took a direct hit from an airball.
Does anyone know a source/part number for these?
Are they hard to replace?
I tried googling this but you can imagine...

-Riles

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by: DomaineR - Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:03 UTC

They are very standard LEDs and Marco has them... or had them. I got a few a couple of years ago.

You do need to know how to solder and maybe more importantly... desolder... to put them in.

You might want to take the mothership apart and look at the legs / solder pads of the LED in question because if its an airball, it likely didn't hurt the LED its self, but more likely broke one of its leads, or its solder joint. So before you go to the trouble of getting a new LED, you might try resoldering what you have.

YMMV but I'd do that first.

All of this assumes you know how to solder because it is easy to damage these old boards with too much heat, or pulled traces.

Good luck

On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 3:35:15 AM UTC+2, fearitself wrote:
> One of the LEDs on my original AFM mothership has gone out (oh no!!).
> Its one of the front-facing ones, probably took a direct hit from an airball.
> Does anyone know a source/part number for these?
> Are they hard to replace?
> I tried googling this but you can imagine...
>
> -Riles

Subject	Author
AFM UFO LEDs	fearitself
AFM UFO LEDs	DomaineR