Retrofitting a Harbor Freight 60 LED Solar Security Light with 110 Lumen LEDs

Retrofitting a Harbor Freight 60 LED Solar Security Light with 110 Lumen LEDs

We just received a shipment of 110, 120 and 130 Lumen 119 Nichia LEDs. I decided I wanted to try them out, so I replaced 48 of 60 of the LEDs in a Harbor Freight 60 LED solar security light. The replacement took about 30 Minutes to complete.

The Nichia 119 LEDs are available at a very low price here: http://www.madscientisthut.com/Shopping/agora.cgi?Components&user4=Nichia%201W%20LED

Here is a picture of the board with ten of the LEDs replaced (see red circle in picture):

The LEDs circled in red are newly replaced with 110 Lumen Nichia 119 LEDs
The LEDs circled in red are newly replaced with 110 Lumen Nichia 119 LEDs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here it is being tested with the first ten LEDs

Nichia 119 ten LED test
Nichia 119 ten LED test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here it is with 48 of the LEDS replaced, I had to turn the ISO way down to 64 and exposure to 1/210th of second on the camera to keep it from overloading the CCD as you can see in the next two images.

I had to turn the sensitivity of the camera way down to get this image
I had to turn the sensitivity of the camera way down to get this image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can feel heat coming off of the LEDs when this is on now. Wow is it bright!!!! (camera ISO setting at 200, still pretty low, exposure was 1/70th second)

Camera overwhelmed by super bright output
Camera overwhelmed by super bright output

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