billyboy12
- Aug 11, 2017
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Hi guys,
I recently got into Philips hue, but one of the first problems I noticed is that they mainly sell E26 bulbs, but only half the sockets in my apartment use these bulbs. The remaining sockets are those ceiling florescent tube type style outlets which I've converted to take LED replacements.
But i got to thinking, and I figured that the hue bulbs are nothing but normal LED bulbs with an additional control chip inside them to make them controllable via the hue bridge. So what I did was pull apart a hue bulb, removed the stock LED board and soldered it to my ceiling bulb. It worked great! Now the bulb is fully controllable in hue, which is non the wiser!
But there's a problem that I kinda expected: the bulb is kinda dull. I figured this would happen, since I've got it soldered to a board that uses MANY more LED diodes then the stock bulb used. So I was wondering if someone knew a way of increasing the juice from the hue control board to the LED bulb.
To give some background, I honestly have no electronics training, save for playing with electronics kits as a kid. But, I do have years of experience I've gained from following console modding guides on the internet. That's how I was able to work out that my "hack" for the hue bulb would probably work. But increasing the voltage/current/watts coming from the hue control board to boost the LED bulb is kinda beyond me, so I thought I'd ask here.
Here's a bit more information. The stock socket has two florescent-style LED tube bulbs, one is 18W and the other is 9W and they are connected to a little connector which snaps into a socket in the ceiling which connects the socket to the 100v mains. Right now, I've only got one bulb soldered to hue bulb since it doesn't have enough power to light up two bulbs.
Here's the original board that the 18W LED bulb used:
https://i.imgur.com/QMTsWgA.jpg
Do you see any parts or circuits that could be re-purposed to boost the output of the hue control board to feed these LED bulbs the correct amount of juice?
Thanks!
I recently got into Philips hue, but one of the first problems I noticed is that they mainly sell E26 bulbs, but only half the sockets in my apartment use these bulbs. The remaining sockets are those ceiling florescent tube type style outlets which I've converted to take LED replacements.
But i got to thinking, and I figured that the hue bulbs are nothing but normal LED bulbs with an additional control chip inside them to make them controllable via the hue bridge. So what I did was pull apart a hue bulb, removed the stock LED board and soldered it to my ceiling bulb. It worked great! Now the bulb is fully controllable in hue, which is non the wiser!
But there's a problem that I kinda expected: the bulb is kinda dull. I figured this would happen, since I've got it soldered to a board that uses MANY more LED diodes then the stock bulb used. So I was wondering if someone knew a way of increasing the juice from the hue control board to the LED bulb.
To give some background, I honestly have no electronics training, save for playing with electronics kits as a kid. But, I do have years of experience I've gained from following console modding guides on the internet. That's how I was able to work out that my "hack" for the hue bulb would probably work. But increasing the voltage/current/watts coming from the hue control board to boost the LED bulb is kinda beyond me, so I thought I'd ask here.
Here's a bit more information. The stock socket has two florescent-style LED tube bulbs, one is 18W and the other is 9W and they are connected to a little connector which snaps into a socket in the ceiling which connects the socket to the 100v mains. Right now, I've only got one bulb soldered to hue bulb since it doesn't have enough power to light up two bulbs.
Here's the original board that the 18W LED bulb used:
https://i.imgur.com/QMTsWgA.jpg
Do you see any parts or circuits that could be re-purposed to boost the output of the hue control board to feed these LED bulbs the correct amount of juice?
Thanks!