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Can someone identify IC "U1" in the below LED lamp PCB?
I've tried to google the identifiers but didn't find anything :-(

It's an 18 W lamp for 240 V AC, and according to the customer it's the second lamp within a few weeks that blew up (obviously fuse FS1 triggered after U1 experienced a "thermal anomaly").

What could be wrong? U1 simply overloaded? Wrong driver concept at all?

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mic
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  • Sounds like you aren't the designer/manufacturer, but a reseller of a product. Can you just contact your supplier chain to ask for a root-cause determination? And is this just the one customer experiencing this difficulty? Or more than one? Am I misreading the situation? – periblepsis Jan 05 '24 at 16:49
  • @periblepsis: Neither nor. I'm just the one who was asked to "have a look" by that customer (an old lady from the neighborhood). I recommended her to bring it back to the shop, but am anyway interested in the root cause of the failure. – mic Jan 05 '24 at 16:57
  • Understood and thanks. – periblepsis Jan 05 '24 at 17:00

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It's hard to read the markings, but it seems to be a Kiwi Instruments KP18106WPA LED driver.

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(Source: lcsc.com)

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    Nice. +1 Linear LED driver chip with integrated 800V bridge rectifier.. for 3 or 4 cents. – Spehro Pefhany Jan 05 '24 at 19:57
  • Thanks! RCS is 10 Ohm. With V_RCS being 600mV typically, this means I = 60 mA, correct? This would be maximum current, but not outside the specification. Maybe the heat slug was not soldered? But the datasheet does also mention a thermal derating function... then I guess it's just poor silicon quality? – mic Jan 05 '24 at 21:20