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Re:Philips LED bulb Tear-down by probablyrobots on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:43PM (#2860873)
ianaee, but the board from the led bulb looks just as hand soldered as the board from the cfl. I don't think the following argument holds up very well.

"I was quite impressed by the use of connectors in this bulb rather than relying on low-cost-labor for hand-soldering which has been used in the manufacturing of CFLs."

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Re:Philips LED bulb Tear-down by bryanlarsen on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:48PM (#2860891)
Daniel_Newby provides an alternative explanation: that it's wave soldered.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2860140

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Re:Philips LED bulb Tear-down by weeny on Monday August 08, 2011 @09:54PM (#2862446)
The Rebel LEDs can't be hand soldered or wave soldered. They are reflow soldered. You can do this with a toaster oven.
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