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JoeNorm

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I bought a cheap fixture from china and I lost the instructions. It consists of multiple LED's(I think AC, don't see a transformer) that join together in a central box. The wire lead colors are blue and brown. Is there a way to know for sure which is hot vs neutral? And does it matter? Will the LED burn out if it gets reversed?

thanks
 
JoeNorm said:
I bought a cheap fixture from china and I lost the instructions. It consists of multiple LED's(I think AC, don't see a transformer) that join together in a central box. The wire lead colors are blue and brown. Is there a way to know for sure which is hot vs neutral? And does it matter? Will the LED burn out if it gets reversed?

thanks
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There's a driver/transformer somewhere, LED runs on DC. As Roger mentioned, blue is neutral. I used to work on tons of European machines and know brown is hot and blue is neutral.
 
JoeNorm said:
I have purchased AC LED strip
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It must have the driver circuit self-contained. Have a link?

Something like this?
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Finally getting around to installing this and resurrecting this thread.

So I understand the blue should be the neutral. On the LED plate where the leads come in the blue says "L" and brown says "N"

Is that just a coincidence of letters or would that signify Line and Neutral?
 
JoeNorm said:
Finally getting around to installing this and resurrecting this thread.

So I understand the blue should be the neutral. On the LED plate where the leads come in the blue says "L" and brown says "N"

Is that just a coincidence of letters or would that signify Line and Neutral?
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100% of the time that I have encountered brown and blue, the brown was hot and the blue was neutral. That's standard "foreign" wiring colors.
Yours could be different, but I wouldn't know without seeing what you're seeing.
 
I just tracked down the instruction online. It has multiple LED plates with brown and blue leads. They want you to wire them all in series with the final remaining two leads going to the L and N.

Never seen that.
 
JoeNorm said:
I just tracked down the instruction online. It has multiple LED plates with brown and blue leads. They want you to wire them all in series with the final remaining two leads going to the L and N.

Never seen that.
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OK that obviously didn't work. Funny when the official instructions are completely wrong
 
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