Hlg-185h-36b

[Feralj87]

So I found two hlg-185h-36b on ebay for a heck of a deal and bought them, I want to build a veg light in 4000k using the bridgelucx gen 3 strips,X BXEB-L0560Z-xxS2000-C-C3. I'm confused on how to do the math to determine how many bars would be best to run on this. Can someone point me in the right direction?

l plan to use the bars to veg a 3x3 tent, and would like to use both drivers to build two lights and have two levels in the tent.

Thank you

 

[MustGro]

So I found two hlg-185h-36b on ebay for a heck of a deal and bought them, I want to build a veg light in 4000k using the bridgelucx gen 3 strips,X BXEB-L0560Z-xxS2000-C-C3. I'm confused on how to do the math to determine how many bars would be best to run on this. Can someone point me in the right direction?

l plan to use the bars to veg a 3x3 tent, and would like to use both drivers to build two lights and have two levels in the tent.

Thank you

Not an expert on this, but I was considering a strip build and read a bunch of threads on here. Mostly people run the drivers at wide open or close to it and the strips at 50 to 60 % of their wattage. So your drivers are 185 watts, say your strips are rated at 85 watts max; you could think of that as 45 to 50 watts a strip and run 4 of them off each driver. That’s without a heat sink. With a heat sink you can drive them 100%, but the strips are usually cheap and it’s efficient to use twice the strips and drive them lighter. That’s what I got out of my reading anyway. Someone who knows more should be along though.

 

[Rocket Soul]

It's a bad match with blux strips. They are 19V the driver is 36V.

 

[welight]

its doable. when hot the strips at 700ma will function around 18v, and they will get hot, so wire up two in series 18x2=36v, and then run out parallel strings. I would build 4 parallel, so total 8 strips, if you were starting from scratch look for better strip/driver match.
Cheers
Mark

 

[Feralj87]

its doable. when hot the strips at 700ma will function around 18v, and they will get hot, so wire up two in series 18x2=36v, and then run out parallel strings. I would build 4 parallel, so total 8 strips, if you were starting from scratch look for better strip/driver match.
Cheers
Mark

That's about what I thought. I'm thinking about just biting the bullet and getting something else, however I'm looking forward to getting the 20, 2 footers I ordered yesterday in and getting out the multimeter and playing around until I've got a better understanding of this stuff.

In more exciting news, I'm assembling this one tonight, 10 90 CRI 27000k on an hlg-320h-42a.

Thanks for your help!