Bridgelux EB Series Build

PicklesRus

PicklesRus

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goodro wilson said:
Got the Hlg 80 350 for $36
And six strips for $24
Definitely a good little light for 60 bucks I'll probably dim down and use for my clone/ seedling area
Now I have everything on the way I guess I should know how to wire them
I know they have the poke in connectors so do I wire in parallel ? And hook up one side to driver
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Wire in series
 
Danielson999

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Even without air cooling through the tubing it looks great and I love the strength and ease of building with it. I would have run a strip of angle along the 2 outside edges just to make them all perfectly straight and even looking. I think I'll definitely be using more tubing in my next build. Looks great so far.
 
PicklesRus

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Danielson999 said:
I used square aluminum tubing and loved it. It's effortless to work with, offers a way to hide wiring and it's way stronger than using angle. I had thought about using it for strips too but I'm not ready to get invested quite yet. I also have 4 x 18" pieces heatsinkusa 4.850" sinks so who knows what I will end up doing first!
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This is really clean - do you mind if I put this picture on ledbuilder.org?
 
Danielson999

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PicklesRus said:
This is really clean - do you mind if I put this picture on ledbuilder.org?
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Feel free. I made a mistake and should have put the wiring through the tubing way earlier in the build so lost patience and just wrapped it around. Lost some of it's clean look but I just had to get it going.
 

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muleface

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PicklesRus said:
12 Strips on 4 elg-200-c1400 = 104,688lm
Will upgrade to 24 strips for 700ma = 115,680lm

Air cooled tubes through the large centre tube.
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that looks great! way to make my build look like a chump did the work! :) is yours overkill, maybe, does it look amazing? hell yeah.

seriously well done!


Danielson999 said:
They sell these for $1000 to $1500usd base price for 330 or 660 watt lights. Much more once you start adding all the accessories.
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yeah, that is way too much money for those lights. You could make 5 for them for that price
 
PicklesRus

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Danielson999 said:
If you mount it on the inside the channel will block light from spreading out wouldn't it?
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We are looking at .05" deep channel. And yea it would but these are going to be hung open air (not in a tent) and the american standard style channels have a 25 or so degree angle on thr channel so we want to see if its good. .5" deep is minimal though. Also i want to see if i can rig a mill to grind the channels to have a better angle like 45 degrees
 
Mr.Head

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Well I'm sure glad I found this thread and got some new LED's one of my COB's is now a burnt egg. The fan never came on last night and I started to smell burning plastic went and looked at the light and the PICO Molex connector was burnt black and the COB is all grey and "smokey".
 
PicklesRus

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Mr.Head said:
Well I'm sure glad I found this thread and got some new LED's one of my COB's is now a burnt egg. The fan never came on last night and I started to smell burning plastic went and looked at the light and the PICO Molex connector was burnt black and the COB is all grey and "smokey".
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Oh bummer dude. Im definately going to run thermal cut off switches with my cobs.

Growmau5 was saying that he still wants cooling even though his heatsinks are passive.

I think ill try to get a fan for the passive design of
The channels
 
Mr.Head

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PicklesRus said:
Oh bummer dude. Im definately going to run thermal cut off switches with my cobs.

Growmau5 was saying that he still wants cooling even though his heatsinks are passive.

I think ill try to get a fan for the passive design of
The channels
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Yup, it's a good idea. It was my initial plan but they've been fine without so i just left them. Now that I've got the wakeup call I'll be ordering some of those. Would you happen to know off the top of your head what Temperature I should order? I was thinking 60degrees C

I was using PC style Molex fan connectors, the female side of that connector was loose, I must have bumped it and not noticed. I took it all apart and made the connection good and tight but too little too late now.

Then I left my cab lights on for an extra 4 hours, so everything is getting chopped down, it's all done anyways.
 
PicklesRus

PicklesRus

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Mr.Head said:
Yup, it's a good idea. It was my initial plan but they've been fine without so i just left them. Now that I've got the wakeup call I'll be ordering some of those. Would you happen to know off the top of your head what Temperature I should order? I was thinking 60degrees C

I was using PC style Molex fan connectors, the female side of that connector was loose, I must have bumped it and not noticed. I took it all apart and made the connection good and tight but too little too late now.

Then I left my cab lights on for an extra 4 hours, so everything is getting chopped down, it's all done anyways.
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Rip out those connectors and use wagos.

If 60 is good go for it. They can handle more than that right? 60 sounds alright
 
Mr.Head

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PicklesRus said:
Rip out those connectors and use wagos.

If 60 is good go for it. They can handle more than that right? 60 sounds alright
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I've been meaning to get one of those lazer temperature guns. I'd say they run about 30 ish when the fans are on :) Burnt my finger touching the heatsink of the brunt one last night. I honestly figured the COB would die long before it got that hot... that's not the case. It still works even all smokey grey.

The stupid part is I am using wagos, have a box of 100 downstairs lol. I was using the fan molex because I had them lying around... what a mistake. I got caught up in "Meh, it's working well" and just left it alone.

This is definitely a wakeup call to clean it all up, get all the wires tight and tied down. Tomorrow I'm going to go grab some enclosures for these and start building them a little safer.

edit ordered 55*C off amazon for $5
 
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goodro wilson

goodro wilson

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Can u use those cool programs to do a wiring diagram real fast sorry I'm clueless I've done a total of 2 diy lights and they were single drivers (qb,vero)
The strips should be here Monday and would like get setup a sap. Tia
 
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