Recent content by staf82

SDS I'm really impressed with your light and seeing it has made me want to make my own diy led lihave ordered my leds but have no idea about the size of heatsink needed? How big is yours? I'm planning on having 16 leds on each one all running at 700ma and was hoping you would be able to assist...

Loving the light, so how thick is the front plate and how big did you drill the holes for the leds? Also is the plate resting against the leds or is it spaced? This makes me want to build my own so much more

Oh I see, how does that reflow solder work then? If you end up doing it could you add some pics if possible please. Thanx for lthe info

Looking good, do these osram ssl diodes go onto normal pcb's ? I was thinking of using them or the golden dragon plus. Keep up the good work

Looking forward to seeing this up and running, i was thinking of making a modulad diy led light so im glad i get to see other peoples attempts first, by the way it looks GREAT!

Not sure if I want to reuse the pcb or not, but I think there lights have too much blue in so will try and adjust the pcb first and then make a new light after

it melts the solder it came with but did not touch the one one the pcb, i let it warm up for ages so i guess i best get a better one then lol

Not sure I will have to find out, it was cheap so prob not very high. I did not realise there were different ones lol Just checked and its a 30w one

Just thought i would ask for some more help, i have took apart my HGL pro and was gonna re use some leds but the solder is different to what i expected. It wont melt with a soldering iron so was wondering if you knew what they have used as i cant get them off the pcb, many thanx

Got another question for you, if i had 21x 3w leds wired in series could i get them to work on a 350mA constant current driver? and if so would they still use as much voltage or would they use more or less? I would realy like to build a light that i can change from the equvalent of 1w to 3w easily.

Still no updates?

Oh I see where I was getting confused, all sounds pretty simple now really. Just need to work out the size of the heat sink now. Thanx for all your help, I will let you know how I get on

Oh i see well that makes sense about not worrying about the watts, why would you not go over 70v on a led driver? is it because they produce more heat once they are bigger? As with the driver i would still put it on a heat sink just on its own one so as to allow maximum efficeintcy for the led...

Jubiare I have been reading about your own DIY LED and i fancy trying it myself, i have a few questions that i need answering and im hoping you can help. How do you know what LED driver you need? They have different voltage outputs and different wattage outputs, lets say i have 3x 15 led...

It's all the technical talk that confuses people including me, but its really pretty simple stuff. I'm a spark so have an idea but either way I agree don't take the earth pin out lol