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Old 01-15-2020, 10:28 AM
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So my Spyder fails inspection.

Turns out water had somehow made it into a taillight, and fried the brake light section. The taillight it seems is only available as a complete assembly. This efffffr is mega expensive. If you do not shop shop shop, you will pay upwards of $600. I paid 400-ish shipped.

So that’s done.

I very gingerly broke down the old light.

As it turns out the the light is made up of a number of LED board which can easily be swapped out. As the light is otherwise perfect, it’s worth a shot to fix it.

Anyone know of any source of these components? My admittedly brief Ebay, Amazon, and web searches yield no results. Am writing the component maker ULO, but you know how that usually goes.
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Junk yard for one that is busted but the electronics work?
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^this. Parts should be avail from the common electronic supply houses (digikey, mouser, future, etc.)
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My experience trying to repair light clusters is that while the electronics is easy, the hard part is getting dry air into the inside and getting a good seal.

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My experience trying to repair light clusters is that while the electronics is easy, the hard part is getting dry air into the inside and getting a good seal.

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Open, fix and get all ready to close up. Blow the fixtures out with nitrogen or welding Argon or c25. Bottled air is dead dry. Just before closing them up warm the fixture in the oven set to low. Just a few min and you keep watching until the plastic is just short of too hot to handle with hands.

Warm up the fixture, Blow clean dry bottled gas/air through then seal them. up tight. If summer do this in AC not the swamp like conditions outside.
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Sorry, will effort a pic today.

As to argon, helium, rectium, it is all of no consequence as the unit is not sealed.
Far from it, it’s designed to breathe. The foam rear panel has an assload of holes, leading directly to an open cavity where the boards and loom live.
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