How to modify a Minecraft ore lamp to be always on?
I just eliminated  the 555 micro controller in the middle, by removing it and connecting the ground directly to the chip side of the existing resistors on the board I now have a cube that simply turns on and off with the switch, no more timer, the tap thing is bypassed, and the led's are at the brightest settings  ////PS the thick red wire from the ground to the chip is a testing wire I used to find the LED's, its just a loose wire





Im not an electronics guy, so its ugly, but it works , Nothing a ball of tin and flux cant fix lol



Edit: 48 hours later of nonstop use, the lights are still as bright as when I first turned it on  

Edit again, 72 hours of nonstop use, and its finally starting to dim a bit... So 72 hours of continuous use before  ( in my case 2 energizer 2500 mah AA rechargeables ) need to be replaced 

One last thing, I just got the blue version, and the circuit board is more like the one the original poster posted, and i did the same mod with the center chip and it worked fine as well  

 

But the LED's on the blue one were still pretty dim, so just on the blue ones with this board I needed to cross this black with this red one.. the blue lights give off the medium setting of the unmodded cube, unlike the red one with the different board, that gives full high setting for the LED's

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