Diy cob led help please!

Corvette kidd

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Buy this driver, meanwell HLG-185H-C1400 b. It will run 3 of your cxa3070 chips no problem, i swear
This driver outputs 71-143 volts 200.2 watts 1.4 amps ( it will run your chips a little harder than 50% but theybwill still be very cold to the touch and very efficient
 

Corvette kidd

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Order your driver's from jameco.com electronics store, and your chips from digikey.com and order your heatsinks from heatsinkusa.com
 

Corvette kidd

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And personally, i dont like cree. They tend to be difficult to find drivers for, and i feel like they dont work as well for flowering. The new decor series vero29 has a cri of 97 and the trich development of my buds is insane. But thats just my preference haha, all leds are good though, evwn the shitty chinese ones make decent grow lights
 
Buy this driver, meanwell HLG-185H-C1400 b. It will run 3 of your cxa3070 chips no problem, i swear
Order your driver's from jameco.com electronics store, and your chips from digikey.com and order your heatsinks from heatsinkusa.com[/QUOTE
And personally, i dont like cree. They tend to be difficult to find drivers for, and i feel like they dont work as well for flowering. The new decor series vero29 has a cri of 97 and the trich development of my buds is insane. But thats just my preference haha, all leds are good though, evwn the shitty chinese ones make decent grow lights
Ive bought everything already and have built almost all of it. Now i have to return the drivers and get different ones
 

Corvette kidd

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This is how i wired up all my other lights. This is just for testing tho
It looks good drom what i can see, just get the different drivers and you'll be in business. Just remeber that when you power them up, you can only run the chips for a few seconds without a heatsink attached or else they will overheat
 

Corvette kidd

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So i can hook them up in parallel and they work. What do you think about hooking them up in parallel?
If they are working in parallel then its a fluke, and i would be very cautious about powering them even for a small amount of time with those drivers. And if you do a little more research you will see that wiring leds in parallel usually isnt a hood idea to begin with because each chip ends up getting a different amount of voltage
 
If they are working in parallel then its a fluke, and i would be very cautious about powering them even for a small amount of time with those drivers. And if you do a little more research you will see that wiring leds in parallel usually isnt a hood idea to begin with because each chip ends up getting a different amount of voltage
Ive been reading up on it and its pushing 36 volts to each cob and the total amps (5.2amps) will be divided among the cob lights. The only problem they say to look out for is thermal runaway. Why do you say it is a fluke?
 
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