Driver setup for qb288s

Psylosin

Psylosin

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Ok guys this is what I'm planning I'm going to be running a number of qb288s I'm a little bit confused on the driver setup so just looking for someone to confirm I'm correct here.

So I'm looking at running 4x qb288s off of a hlg-480h-c2100b. I'm going to be running the boards at 53.28v 2100ma for 111.6w each. So if I'm doing this correct you would multiply x4 for a total of 446.4w and 213.12v... So for this driver max watts is 481w and constant current region is between 114 and 229v so this is all correct?

So am i correct in this driver for this setup and am i looking at this the right way? and is there a better more efficient way of running these? I'm going to be running 28 lights so if I can cut down the amount of drivers that would be great.

Sorry for a total noob question but I am a noob so it comes with the territory... I was going to post the spec sheets for light and driver but I don't have permissions so I can give more info if needed... Thanks guys!
 
JavaCo

JavaCo

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Your math looks correct. As far as I know there is no other drivers with better efficiency then the HLG's. You can usually get more efficiency by running LED's softer but the way you have these set up you should be getting around 177 lumens a watt, that's pretty tough to beat at that wattage.
 
Psylosin

Psylosin

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Any idea of another driver setup,that could run,more lights per driver? I was honestly looking for,something to run at 2400ma but couldn't find,anything suitable
 
JavaCo

JavaCo

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Only if you ran the boards in parallel , I believe they recommend driving them in series. But one of these could run 6 boards at around a 100 watts each HLG-600H-54. Five boards would be 120 watts a board or 2240 mA.
 
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VegasWinner

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I believe @JavaCo said it best. The boards can be run in parallel very easily, they are balanced so no thermal runaway. OMS @OLD MOTHER SATIVA uses a similar setup and they run the 600H-54B drivers for t heir boards very similar to the QB boards. I think you get more bang for the buck with the 54B drivers.
 
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Dave455

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Psylosin said:
Ok guys this is what I'm planning I'm going to be running a number of qb288s I'm a little bit confused on the driver setup so just looking for someone to confirm I'm correct here.

So I'm looking at running 4x qb288s off of a hlg-480h-c2100b. I'm going to be running the boards at 53.28v 2100ma for 111.6w each. So if I'm doing this correct you would multiply x4 for a total of 446.4w and 213.12v... So for this driver max watts is 481w and constant current region is between 114 and 229v so this is all correct?

So am i correct in this driver for this setup and am i looking at this the right way? and is there a better more efficient way of running these? I'm going to be running 28 lights so if I can cut down the amount of drivers that would be great.

Sorry for a total noob question but I am a noob so it comes with the territory... I was going to post the spec sheets for light and driver but I don't have permissions so I can give more info if needed... Thanks guys!
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try the driver calculator on ledgardener.com
 
nfhiggs

nfhiggs

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Psylosin said:
Ok guys this is what I'm planning I'm going to be running a number of qb288s I'm a little bit confused on the driver setup so just looking for someone to confirm I'm correct here.

So I'm looking at running 4x qb288s off of a hlg-480h-c2100b. I'm going to be running the boards at 53.28v 2100ma for 111.6w each. So if I'm doing this correct you would multiply x4 for a total of 446.4w and 213.12v... So for this driver max watts is 481w and constant current region is between 114 and 229v so this is all correct?

So am i correct in this driver for this setup and am i looking at this the right way? and is there a better more efficient way of running these? I'm going to be running 28 lights so if I can cut down the amount of drivers that would be great.

Sorry for a total noob question but I am a noob so it comes with the territory... I was going to post the spec sheets for light and driver but I don't have permissions so I can give more info if needed... Thanks guys!
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Yes, that combination should work fine.
 
Psylosin

Psylosin

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Thanks everyone for the replies I'm going to look into the 54b drivers and do some reading on parallel wiring before I make my final decisions on drivers. I am however ordering my quantum boards tomorrow after work. I'm going to order 24 3000k 288s and 4 4000k 288s. The 4000k boards will eventually be swapped out and put into a smaller veg room with some other veg lights. This is all assuming hlg doesn't go out of stock overnight like they did with the 288s with the heatsink included, figures because I would have been ordering those instead and will now have to try to make a separate request for the heatsinks afterwards.
 
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