beepotron
Active Member
Hello all
Firstly, thanks to everyone who freely offers up their knowledge and time in this particular forum, I've spent hours fascinated and becoming duly educated (if slowly) about the construction of LED systems.
I've done a bit of searching, but I can't seem to find a thread where this is covered, so I'm hoping someone can share what is probably very straight forward once you "get it".
How, in the most basic form, do you calculate the specs of the drivers you need? I'm looking at single COBs with single drivers (perhaps rudimentary and the easiest to work out for a novice), but also series, and theoretically, parallel arrangements... Systems with the minimum number of drivers seem cleaner to me. I'm particularly interested in high output COBs, but hoping the same principal applies to strings of 3W LEDs, etc. too.
I know there's loads of questions along the lines of "I want to power xyz arrangement of COBs, what meanwell driver do I need?", and these get answered every time with good information, but I'm after the knowledge to fish and feed my family every day without asking piecemeal each time.
Firstly, thanks to everyone who freely offers up their knowledge and time in this particular forum, I've spent hours fascinated and becoming duly educated (if slowly) about the construction of LED systems.
I've done a bit of searching, but I can't seem to find a thread where this is covered, so I'm hoping someone can share what is probably very straight forward once you "get it".
How, in the most basic form, do you calculate the specs of the drivers you need? I'm looking at single COBs with single drivers (perhaps rudimentary and the easiest to work out for a novice), but also series, and theoretically, parallel arrangements... Systems with the minimum number of drivers seem cleaner to me. I'm particularly interested in high output COBs, but hoping the same principal applies to strings of 3W LEDs, etc. too.
I know there's loads of questions along the lines of "I want to power xyz arrangement of COBs, what meanwell driver do I need?", and these get answered every time with good information, but I'm after the knowledge to fish and feed my family every day without asking piecemeal each time.