I bought some cheap LED lights recently. They seem pretty good for the price (less that £10 at Screwfix) but for what I'm using them for a bit dimmer would be ideal. Anyway, I thought it would probably be reasonably easy to modify the driver circuit for lower current and as a bonus the LEDs would probably last longer too.
I expected perhaps a simple capacitive dropper at that price, but on opening it up I can see something a bit more complex. It has an SOIC-8 chip on there but the marking don't reveal much when I've searched.
ICNE2531AE
A10350AB
2130
The white soldermask makes it a surprisingly tricky to trace the circuit too. Any tips, or ideas on the IC?
Just to reassure you all, I am aware that even the "low voltage side" of this sort of cricuit is dangerous to touch is it's likely to not be isolated from the mains side. Any modification will be done with it disconnected and then stand back, power it on and see what happens! The LEDs on the other side are two banks of 7 LEDs wired in series, so I could always disconnect one bank and hope that it's a constant current driver that will automatically half the output voltage.
