

| Subject: | LED Failure |
| From: | Pensioner |
| Date: | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:26:58 -0700 |
From days long gone by, I seem to recall that the most likely failure mode for diodes in general, of which category, LEDs are one instance, is to open circuit (burn open). The lighting result in this case is the same as breaking the circuit. All LEDs in the series branch switch to dark mode. Most diodes are limited by power dissipation. When they get very hot they cannot dissipate the power across the junction and the junction temperature rises until the diode is destroyed (generally to open circuit). Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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