Brutkey

Trammell Hudson
@th@social.v.st

This LED lamp is way too bright. Should I a) reverse engineer the firmware in the unknown microcontroller or b) just replace the 500 Ohm resistor with 1K?

circuit board with two ICs that have their labels removed. one is a battery management and the other in an unknown SOIC-8 chip. a large R500 is in the center of the board.
Trammell Hudson
@th@social.v.st

I don't have the right SMD parts so why not bodge in a through hole resistor?

Pcb with all surface mount parts except for one blue resistor