I dont think anyone has done this before .I figured this out today while staring at my powerboards sucky brightness from the white power led. I have heard you could bridge the resistor but that would be pumping a full 5.5v into my leds and blowing them into oblivion... Then I got it... add my own resistor and I can run it at the voltage I desire.
So here is how to do this mod, it is customisable for every 0603 led all you need are the specs to caculate the resistor value.
Firstly this is how it was before the mod. yes sucky.
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Now caculate the resistor needed (If you are not comfortable with Ohms law use this
http://www.led-calculator.com/)
then gather your parts: Powerboard (Duh!), Solder (my ultra thin
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), your caculated resistor and some 30awg wire (not shown).
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Then solder the resistor between the positive point and the led. Mount is somewhere, I sugest here. (yep im awesome with a hot glue gun.
Now remove or bridge the smt resistor. (or attempt to bridge and accedently remove) *If you remove it bridge the two pads with some solder*and test your results you should see considerable improvement.
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and its driving it at the typical voltage for that led, not the 2.7v(or something) that It was before.
Yea thats it, oh if you want me to write this into a full body tutorial just say.
Peace
GhoSt.