I posted this about 3 1/2 weeks ago. The failures are all in the first batch and all on the right side. They thought from testing that it would fail almost immediately, but now it appears that some may fail after a few hours. It was kind of difficult for them to find since it only effected a small amount. There appears to be a component defect on the board on the right side. I do believe they may be able to send out new boards at the end of this week.
This was my posting below from the other thread.
Show Chrome has had a few failures of the 400 that have been sold so far. They have done a lot of testing and have isolated the problem to the right side led light only. This is only on a very small amount of them. From testing it has shown that if yours are effected they will stop working almost immediately or within an hour or so. They do have a fix in the works that is very easy for anyone that has received these and encounters this problem. Again this is very isolated, about 3 to 4%.
If you do have questions give Brandon at Big Bike Parts a call at 800-826-2411.
Below is a portion of the correspondence with them.
Rick
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"Big Bike PartsŪ has been troubleshooting with select dealers and customers that have experienced the right side of their new rectangular LED Fog lights, BBP # 52-906, dimming out after usage on some kits. Our research has identified a bad IC driver chip may be present in some units, which are causing this particular issue. Not all units are affected and we are in the process of identifying which production batches and IC driver chips maybe faulty so we can implement a permanent solution to replace those affected.
We are expecting a solution over the next several days, at which time we will produce the necessary replacement components and expedite delivery. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you or our customers, but are acting as quickly as possible to identify and correct this issue."
Solid state components rarely, RARELY, go bad or are faulty though. In almost 20 years of electrical design, I can count on one hand the number of real IC problems I've encountered, and still have a few fingers left over. Statistically, the issue is more likely to be PCB or design related. If you have a misbehaving IC, chances are good that something in the PCB or design is making it misbehave.
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