Diy led build, grow and flower.

[Geert]

Thanks alot! is want to drive them at their most effiecient wattage to run them cool, something like 1A -25watt each strip.
Could i get 8 strips each driver max?

 

[Airwalker16]

Thanks alot! is want to drive them at their most effiecient wattage to run them cool, something like 1A -25watt each strip.
Could i get 8 strips each driver max?

HLG-240-48A has 5 amps available on it. So if you put a SET of TWO SERIES WIRED TOGETHER strips, each SET(4) Would get 1.25amps, among 2 strips, 0.625milliamps PER EACH INDIVIDUAL STRIP.

 

[cobshopgrow]

is it drawn on toilet paper?

 

[Airwalker16]

is it drawn on toilet paper?

A napkin.

 

[Airwalker16]

Thanks alot! is want to drive them at their most effiecient wattage to run them cool, something like 1A -25watt each strip.
Could i get 8 strips each driver max?

240w among 8 strips 1 channel. These have 2 channels, so you gotta remember each strip has 2 drivers powering it.
30 watts per EACH channel of every strip, 60 total using 2 240drivers. So if you want 25w per entire strip 12.5w per channel, you'll need like 20 strips.

 

[cobshopgrow]

glad to hear, so no corona toilet paper overstock.

 

[Airwalker16]

This should clear it up well enough I think. You would just add as many strips as you'd like to in this same way, branching off the drivers positive and negatives to the beginning POS and end NEG of the 2 series wired together strips, using BOTH drivers for every pair of strips:

 

[Gond00s]

beautiful napkin art amber could learn a thing from it

 

[Airwalker16]

beautiful napkin art amber could learn a thing from it

Lol why thank you, sir. Not aware of who Amber is, though.

 

[Gond00s]

Lol why thank you, sir. Not aware of who Amber is, though.

oh dr amber trichome of course she runs the waterfarm blue dream page

 

[Airwalker16]

oh dr amber trichome of course she runs the waterfarm blue dream page

Oh well I'm not familiar with her work here guess I need to check it out.

 

[GBAUTO]

My suggestion is to group all warm channels together in one group and all cold channels together in another group.

That way you can connect one group, the other or both and run in parallel. You can also finesse it and have separate drivers for both sections but it means dimming and having double capacity in drivers if you wanna be able to do a pure warm white.

Its easier with the connections if you run 2 strips in series over a 48A driver. Maybe even 2 sep hlg240-48A.
Theress also CC solutions but its hard to match drivers, and i loath recing high vvoltage solutions due to it being a bit dangerous.

This is how I modded my old King panel.
It has a pair of 160 watt drivers, so I added a second power switch and ran each spectrum on separate drivers.
I run the 5000k for veg and add the 2700k during flower. RS has had very good results using just the 2700k for flower.
Not a bad investment of $50 and an afternoon to resurrect this old blurple.

New item by GBAUTO

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[Airwalker16]

This is how I modded my old King panel.
It has a pair of 160 watt drivers, so I added a second power switch and ran each spectrum on separate drivers.
I run the 5000k for veg and add the 2700k during flower. RS has had very good results using just the 2700k for flower.
Not a bad investment of $50 and an afternoon to resurrect this old blurple.

New item by GBAUTO

photos.app.goo.gl

So you just used the heatsink basically for some 10" strips?

 

[Geert]

240w among 8 strips 1 channel. These have 2 channels, so you gotta remember each strip has 2 drivers powering it.
30 watts per EACH channel of every strip, 60 total using 2 240drivers. So if you want 25w per entire strip 12.5w per channel, you'll need like 20 strips.

Ok, got it. so 2 drivers each strip wil mean if i dim one driver the color is getting different?
I dont get the point how this strip is changing colours.

 

[Airwalker16]

Ok, got it. so 2 drivers each strip wil mean if i dim one driver the color is getting different?
I dont get the point how this strip is changing colours.

Yes. The less 2700k you have the closer to 5000k you'll be until you dim to 0% at which it will be all 5000k at that point. Then as you slowly ramp up again the 2700k diodes, the closer you'll get to 3700k. If you started to dim 5000k, the closer from 3700k you'd be to 2700k once it's down to 0%.
Make sense?

 

[Geert]

Yes, i'm getting it.
Does this dimming also effect the efficiency and wattage at wich the strip is running?
I would like to run them soft at around 50% for full efficiency.

 

[Airwalker16]

Yes, i'm getting it.
Does this dimming also effect the efficiency and wattage at wich the strip is running?
I would like to run them soft at around 50% for full efficiency.

Yes. All LEDs work that way though. The lower the current the more lumens per watt they produce.

 

[Moflow]

is it drawn on toilet paper?

No shit! Lol

 

[Geert]

240w among 8 strips 1 channel. These have 2 channels, so you gotta remember each strip has 2 drivers powering it.
30 watts per EACH channel of every strip, 60 total using 2 240drivers. So if you want 25w per entire strip 12.5w per channel, you'll need like 20 strips.

Been thinking on this , if i look at the specs it tells me the do 130lm/w at 1a.
So thats 25vx1amp=25w, is this calculated per strip or per channel?
And does this mean running 2x1amp each strip is 25watt each side, so 50 watt each strip?

Also correct me if im wrong, assume i want to choose one color like 2700K with this strip.
I already run them soft at 50% for high lm/w, so this would mean i will only use 25% of
the max wattage this strip could give.

 

[Airwalker16]

Been thinking on this , if i look at the specs it tells me the do 130lm/w at 1a.
So thats 25vx1amp=25w, is this calculated per strip or per channel?
And does this mean running 2x1amp each strip is 25watt each side, so 50 watt each strip?

Also correct me if im wrong, assume i want to choose one color like 2700K with this strip.
I already run them soft at 50% for high lm/w, so this would mean i will only use 25% of
the max wattage this strip could give.

If I remember right, everything in that data Info area on Digikey or whatever is FOR ONE CHANNEL if the TWO CHANNEL strip.