I am making my ultimate bedside light. I have a Convoy 18350, a 219C 3000K, MtnElectronics Moonlight Special, and a Led4Power warm white switch. The issue I have is that (thanks to the lighted tail) it acts like it has next-mode memory.
Here’s the thing: I know *why*it does that, I know what needs to be done, I don’t know how to do it.
I need to know what bleeder resistor to get and I need to know where to put it on the driver.
I’m not terribly familiar with that driver so test everything I say before just trusting me. But assuming that the positive connection is straight-thru, as in the positive spring pad on the underside is directly connected to that positive output pad going to the mcpcb, then that looks like a pretty good place to add a bleeder. You want to connect that positive directly to the ground ring, but keep it close so that the driver will still sit down flush in the driver cavity. In other words, make sure the driver isn’t sitting on the resistor when you install it.
If you don’t like that idea, they’re always pretty easy to grab on the back side. Just connect that positive spring directly to the ground ring on the bottom, like this:
As for what value, 500 to 600 ohms usually works just great but don’t get too hung up on the value. Somewhere in that ballpark is fine.
