cleaning led
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Hugo Phurst
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Yup
whytewidow
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Denatured alcohol is better. But iso wont hurt them.
BigHornBuds
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ISO is denatured alcohol.
whytewidow
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It also has menthonal in it. It has a completely different chemical structure. It's not the samething. Denatured is only 70% iso. The boiling point is also different.
But yes they are close to the samething but not exactly.
jarvild
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C. Cleaning The LED Lighting Modules should not be used in any type of fluid such as water, oil, organic solvent, etc. It is recommended that IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) be used as a solvent for cleaning the LED Lighting Modules. When using other solvents, it should be confirmed beforehand whether the solvents will dissolve the package and the resin or not. Freon solvents should not be used to clean the LEDs because of worldwide regulations. Do not clean the LED Lighting Modules by the ultrasonic. Before cleaning, a pre-test should be done to confirm whether any damage to the LED Lighting Modules will occur.
Straight from the Manufacturers specs.
Straight from the Manufacturers specs.
I work a lot with electronics, actually building them from scratch/etc. I was always taught in college to use 90% iso and that's also what we use at my company. 90% iso is useless for almost any other application, even for sterilization you're better off with 70% for reasons I won't go into here, but 90% is cheap as hell and you can get it anywhere and it works amazingly well for removing anything on a circuit board without damaging electronics, even burnt resin. It will damage some materials so be careful what you get it on outside of ICs and passives and pcbs/etc.
EDIT: just realized where I was... burnt resin as in flux used for soldering... not our kind of resin, although it does work for that as well
EDIT: just realized where I was... burnt resin as in flux used for soldering... not our kind of resin, although it does work for that as well
Thundercat
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ISO is not denatured they are 2 different things do not spread misinformation!!
Denatured alcohol is ethanol with additives to make it undrinkable.
Isopropyl alcohol is a completely chemically different type of alcohol which is also undrinkable, but it doesn't have additives in it. 91% ISO is nothing but ISO and 9% water. 70% ISO is nothing but ISO and 30% water.
Were you replying to me at the end there? If so I would hope that was common knowledge, and I never stated that it wasn't? It's the higher concentrations of Iso that causes it to damage certain materials, and also the higher concentration that makes it more effective at removing burnt shit off of PCBs.
If you weren't replying to me then never mind.
BigHornBuds
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Your right , my bad
Shouldnt try to read and comprehend @5am when I first wake up
Thundercat
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hehe nope I was replying to the person I quoted
whytewidow
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Lol.
Don't feel bad, I make my highballs with 2 parts denatured alcohol, 2 parts isopropyl alcohol, and 2 parts kerosene. It makes me think good for rollitup speakings.
whytewidow
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Well I have almost 2 years of running Samsung strips. And I clean them after every run with denatured alcohol. And have no ill effects on anything.
Edit: let them dry really good and let it evap before applying any power whatsoever to the leds.
Edit: let them dry really good and let it evap before applying any power whatsoever to the leds.
Or 5am when I should be going to bed, but I've never done that.
I've never tried denatured alcohol, I just know you can get a 16oz bottle of 90+% iso for like 99 cents and it lasts forever, it is what is recommended for cleaning electronics in the industry, and it evaporates crazy fast. Denatured probably works perfectly well for our purposes, whatever you're comfortable with. I don't know how long it takes for denatured to evaporate but iso is almost as fast as you're cleaning, so I'd be sure to do it in a well vented room.
whytewidow
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Regular iso evaps alot faster. The only reason I use denatured is bc I have like 20 gallons of it from work. We use it to wipe aluminum down before applying thermal adhesive, paste, grease or whatever. And it's free. But it takes like 3 to 4 mins to completely evap. And it doesnt have that hardcore iso smell as bad.
Gotcha, I've got a ventilation machine for when I solder that I use for cleaning with alcohol, but for my 2x4 grow light I'll probably move that outside in the spring to clean it. Plus I used thermal paste on mine and some as oozed out from under the lights so I need to clean all that away, going to be tedious as hell.
Whytewidow, how many watts per square foot do you have on your canopies?