LED garden light repair time - yep, another 12V LED garden spotlight takes a dump! Here's my easy fault tracing steps, followed by a quick replacement of the faulty 3W warm white LED.
I was lucky because I had a "used" replacement 3W LED bulb from another identical failed Hampton Bay garden spotlight.
The specific type of LED bulb used in these particular crappy Hampton Bay low voltage spots are usually called "star board LED's" due to the shape of the six point round heatsink they are mounted to. Google search for "3W warm white star board LED" and many sources will come up if you need to order a few (assuming of course you want warm white which is what the ones in the video are). Also assuming you want to put any money or time into a crappy spotlight.
Better yet - toss the crappy overpriced low voltage Hampton Bay LED spots once they fail, and get the inexpensive 12V ones from Amazon or eBay. You can get a set of 6 for not much more than a single Hampton Bay LED spot. Here are the ones I started using 4 years ago as the overpriced Hampton ones started failing within the first year: amzn.to/3baKfS6
These full metal and well sealed Amazon/eBay LED spots have all worked great and outlasted all the Hampton spots that they replaced. The only Hampton spotlight I have left is that one on our address sign. Once it fails for good, I'll be getting another of those Amazon ones to replace it.
Video Chapter Time Index:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Is there voltage at the source
1:40 Is there voltage at the light
2:29 Checking light on the bench
3:17 Opening up the LED spotlight
4:42 Testing the LED's
6:06 Replacing faulty LED
9:08 I see the light - fixed
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