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Replacing fridge light with lower wattage LED bulb? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by naught101@lemmy.world to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de

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I have a fridge with a burnt out incandescent ligth globe. The original was 20W. I tried to replace it with a 5W LED, and it lit up for about 1 second, and then went off. The bulb works fine in a lamp, so I'm guessing I blew something in the fridge electronics?

My electronics knowledge is pretty basic, but I figured that using a lower wattage globe couldn't really hurt. It at least wouldn't have blown a fuse, right? Is there something else it could have done? LED control circuit HF feeding back into the fridge power circuit badly or something?

The rest of the fridge is working fine.

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[–] Gobo@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Different voltages? Ac vs DC? Get a multimeter and read what the socket in the refrigerator says.