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Fake screw! Fake terminal block! And modifying multi-color LED ceiling lamp's default behavior

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I've recently bought some LED ceiling lamps that supports multiple color temperature (daylight,warm white and "natural" white) by toggling the power switch as below. However, I prefer the default color to be warm white instead of daylight as it will be installed in a bedroom and less blue light might help with my occasional insomnia. So I decided to try to modify since it should not be too hard since they LEDs and a constant current LED driver like below. First I tried to open up the LED driver and have a look at the circuit inside. But when I tried to turn my screw driver on the 2 screws on the orange colored part, it didn't turn at all. Upon closer inspection, it seems that those are fake plastic molded screw! After a while, I figured out that the entire orange colored terminal block was also fake! 😆 It is just piece of plastic held together those snap-on plastic parts. Hahaha.. I guess this is not too surprising since it comes from the count...