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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • Look up “homemade Dubai lamps” or as Big Clive likes to call them, “Dooby lamps”. Basically decrease the power by 30% or more by replacing or removing one of current-sense resistors to get a many times longer lifespan. Very easy with lamps that have a linear regulator on the LED board; ones that have a switching regulator inside need to be disassembled further than just popping off the plastic globe (preferrably by milling into the housing from the SMD side of the board because that doesn’t disrupt the thermal design of the LED board). With the latter approach, I can also fix another common issue: the input inductor going open circuit, usually indicated by flashing and a burned-out bypass resistor (most often 4k7 or “472”) − I just short it, I don’t care about the little extra interference if it mskes the bulb work again.











  • The former, presumably. She lost an eye at least 6 years ago, which I assume was the injury and reason she became captive. By 2025, any infections would have healed and she’d have learned what she can and can’t do safely, and the staff must have protected her from external harm.

    OP is sharing some insider information because I haven’t been able to find recent info on Harriett, not even by looking up the collage or quote from the press statement in this post.