Trying to blow up a Chinese night light - and failing (with schematic)

Nice night light, but certain things had to be tested...

It turns out that it's quite hard to make the suspect resistor emit smoke, and the electrolytic capacitor pop when you abuse it.

Obviously I could have MADE it go bang if I had applied malice, but I wanted to test the real life failure scenario of the LED circuit going open circuit.

After making the video I added a zener diode and new 1 Megohm resistor with much higher voltage rating. Estimated real power is just 0.2W as stated on the packaging.

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