Refurbished meanwell hlg 185 48a

coreywebster

coreywebster

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If your in UK there's a bloke selling em for £16.99 plus £5 postage.

Wtf is going in with meanwell driver prices and availability?

Loads of places with zero stock till 2023.
The ones I have found in various wattage all crazy money.
The XLGs are now the price of the HLGs a year of so ago. Its gone mental.

Anyway, mods if I'm breaking rules please delete, didn't want to post in best deals thread as there's more UK eyes I here.
Not me selling them, but it's a good size driver and I didn't want anyone to miss out
 
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Lou66

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coreywebster said:
Wtf is going in with meanwell driver prices and availability
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Chip shortage and disrupted supply chains. During Covid many factories shut down that made the already low supply worse. Now everyone wants to have a stock and ordered twice as much as usual.
Freight is disrupted by the suez canal blockage, closed chinese ports and labour shortage in the european ports.

Btw the "chip shortage" is not for the cutting edge that goes into iPhones. Its the jelly bean components that go into industrial control units, power supplies etc.
 
Grow Lights Australia

Grow Lights Australia

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coreywebster said:
If your in UK there's a bloke selling em for £16.99 plus £5 postage.

Wtf is going in with meanwell driver prices and availability?

Loads of places with zero stock till 2023.
The ones I have found in various wattage all crazy money.
The XLGs are now the price of the HLGs a year of so ago. Its gone mental.

Anyway, mods if I'm breaking rules please delete, didn't want to post in best deals thread as there's more UK eyes I here.
Not me selling them, but it's a good size driver and I didn't want anyone to miss out
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We're going over to uPowerTek partly for that reason. Lack of supply, lack of customisation and soaring prices. uPowerTek are building custom drivers for us and offering an 8-year warranty. We've just taken delivery of a bunch of 250W drivers with IP67 waterproof onboard dimmers. We have 400W versions coming next month. They are a lovely bit of kit. They use rubber insulated buttons to cycle through OFF 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%. I believe they are the only IP67 drivers available on the market with fully waterproof digital dimming function. The Mean Wells can be dimmed and remain IP65 waterproof, but you need to remove a rubber plug first and use a screwdriver to adjust the Io and Vo potentiometers onboard. The uPowerTeks do away with this. Any driver with a dial dimmer is not fully waterproof. At least we haven't found any and we looked for a long time! Luckily uPowerTek came to the party.

Mean Well XLG drivers can't get certification in Australia but we tested a couple that we brought in from overseas and had a few problems with them. We don't recommend using them with our products. They are cheap but the ELGs are better IMO. The XLGs are really for markets with 110V mains as the ELGs lose 25% of their output on 110V. They are fine for the UK and other countries wth 220-240V mains. We would recommend them over the XLGs.

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coreywebster

coreywebster

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Grow Lights Australia said:
We're going over to uPowerTek partly for that reason. Lack of supply, lack of customisation and soaring prices. uPowerTek are building custom drivers for us and offering an 8-year warranty. We've just taken delivery of a bunch of 250W drivers with IP67 waterproof onboard dimmers. We have 400W versions coming next month. They are a lovely bit of kit. They use rubber insulated buttons to cycle through OFF 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%. I believe they are the only IP67 drivers available on the market with fully waterproof digital dimming function. The Mean Wells can be dimmed and remain IP65 waterproof, but you need to remove a rubber plug first and use a screwdriver to adjust the Io and Vo potentiometers onboard. The uPowerTeks do away with this. Any driver with a dial dimmer is not fully waterproof. At least we haven't found any and we looked for a long time! Luckily uPowerTek came to the party.

Mean Well XLG drivers can't get certification in Australia but we tested a couple that we brought in from overseas and had a few problems with them. We don't recommend using them with our products. They are cheap but the ELGs are better IMO. The XLGs are really for markets with 110V mains as the ELGs lose 25% of their output on 110V. They are fine for the UK and other countries wth 220-240V mains. We would recommend them over the XLGs.

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Those drivers sound great !
How's the efficiency in comparison?

I'll look forward to testing them out when I upgrade my other LEDs next year .
 
Grow Lights Australia

Grow Lights Australia

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coreywebster said:
Those drivers sound great !
How's the efficiency in comparison?

I'll look forward to testing them out when I upgrade my other LEDs next year .
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The same as the Mean Wells. The 250W uPowerTek is up to 93% efficient on 220V mains which is the same as the HLG-240H-54A we have been using. The new 400W uPowerTek drivers we are getting are up to 93.5% at 220V. Mean Well rates efficiency at 277V and 230V with the higher voltage mains being worth an increase in efficiency of about 0.5-1%.
 
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