uppitt
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- Dec 21, 2010
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Hi everyone,
I’ve been a long time member but haven’t posted for a few years. My display is mostly store bought lights in a static display so I rarely do any modding or go more advanced. Most of my lights have a MFC. I usually put the MFC in a zip lock bag to help keep water out, but I kinda forgot to do this on a few strings this year and after the down pour in Sydney last Friday a found a couple of large strings died where I know the PSU & string is good (coz I’ve swapped them out), but it’s definitely the MFC that has died.
A string of 1000 LEDs that has an MFC, is the same MFC mentioned in this thread -> https://auschristmaslighting.com/threads/dm-k1-6-bypass-replace.8218/
After the rain when this string was turned on, only half the LEDs were lit, and were flashing very quickly, strobe like. I gave the MFC a shake and realised there was likely water in it but then the string stopped completely (I should have disconnected the power before doing that...doh). So now that string is dead, and this morning I had a spare string and I cut and swapped out the MFC (the 1000 string was wrapped around trees and I really didn’t want to unwrap and re-wrap so it was faster to cut and replace the MFC. That string is working again, but I still effectively have a dead string (actually more than one like this).
Firstly, any chance anyone would know what component potentially may have died given the description I gave of half lit and flashing very quickly before fully stopping completely?
Secondly I’m happy to remove the MFC entirely if that is possible. Can I follow the suggestion for MFC removal given this is a 2 wire string -> "Total MFC Removal” in this wiki post -> https://auschristmaslighting.com/wiki/Bypassing_Multi_Function_Controllers#Total_MFC_Removal
The PSU is 31V, and these strings I bought I guess 4 years ago.
I was reading/watching some of BigClives stuff as well here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaBLM5fOZBI
I'm not sure if what Clive did there would work on my 2 wire string that is a 31V string.
Thanks
Tim
I’ve been a long time member but haven’t posted for a few years. My display is mostly store bought lights in a static display so I rarely do any modding or go more advanced. Most of my lights have a MFC. I usually put the MFC in a zip lock bag to help keep water out, but I kinda forgot to do this on a few strings this year and after the down pour in Sydney last Friday a found a couple of large strings died where I know the PSU & string is good (coz I’ve swapped them out), but it’s definitely the MFC that has died.
A string of 1000 LEDs that has an MFC, is the same MFC mentioned in this thread -> https://auschristmaslighting.com/threads/dm-k1-6-bypass-replace.8218/
After the rain when this string was turned on, only half the LEDs were lit, and were flashing very quickly, strobe like. I gave the MFC a shake and realised there was likely water in it but then the string stopped completely (I should have disconnected the power before doing that...doh). So now that string is dead, and this morning I had a spare string and I cut and swapped out the MFC (the 1000 string was wrapped around trees and I really didn’t want to unwrap and re-wrap so it was faster to cut and replace the MFC. That string is working again, but I still effectively have a dead string (actually more than one like this).
Firstly, any chance anyone would know what component potentially may have died given the description I gave of half lit and flashing very quickly before fully stopping completely?
Secondly I’m happy to remove the MFC entirely if that is possible. Can I follow the suggestion for MFC removal given this is a 2 wire string -> "Total MFC Removal” in this wiki post -> https://auschristmaslighting.com/wiki/Bypassing_Multi_Function_Controllers#Total_MFC_Removal
The PSU is 31V, and these strings I bought I guess 4 years ago.
I was reading/watching some of BigClives stuff as well here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaBLM5fOZBI
I'm not sure if what Clive did there would work on my 2 wire string that is a 31V string.
Thanks
Tim