You got me wrong... I want to have a custom light, where the diods are spreaded out perfectly even. I couldn’t achieve this with the strips! It‘s not about the efficiency for me. The design (just look at one of my older post) will make this possible. The roof of my space will be completely covered with diods.
I hear that! I've been working on ways to maintain stable temperature in a 15C/60F room.
It‘s funny... I read alot about people having problems with the cold temprature lately. I can tell you, what is working for me (mine is not that old, like the one in the example pic):
That driver has a 179v max on its range and I think 19.5v min per strip is required so that's 195v total with 10 strips.
You can use that driver but you are going to have to combine series and parallel wiring. You can have up to 18 strips on that driver if you combine in parallel 2 groups of 9 strips in serie. You have to do 2 groups in parallel of 5 strips in serie to wire your 10 strips. Voltage will be 97.5v and each strip will get 700ma for a total of 136.5w.
Has it not been demonstrated that mixing strips will not improve spectrum ?
Shhhhhhh. It makes many builders happy to mix their own zoomy spectrum.
FYI I have 700 watts of 3000 and 3500 k already so I was looking to change it up a bit
What would be a more appropriate driver to run 10 at 1000 ish mA
HLG-185H-C1050A could also work with 10 strips in series, but only with the A version. The strips need 200V, and the driver is rated as 190V. But 190 + 10% = 209V, so I can see it working. Would prefer the other one though.
So if I go for the 240 driver and wire 10 in parallel , what would they run at, seems way confusing as I barely got my timber kit together, may be worth the extra to just buy a QB. Thanks for everyone’s help this far!
http://www.meanwell.com/webapp/product/search.aspx?prod=HLG-240H
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