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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…
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The balls hold the plate at a constant distance from the spider
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These guys just weren’t having a good day
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Some tedious hand-filing produces notches…
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The elaborately formed piece of steel did have a flat section in contact with another part of the chassis
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The light output doesn’t go up by nearly a factor of four
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Adding aluminum improved the situation, but not by much.
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A shorter length of cable might be suitable for a cheap laptop brick power supply.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 