caretak3r
Well-Known Member
I posted in another thread but I should probably start my own, so here goes.
I bought custom 4x 1w 24-led panels from an ebay seller (Merry) on recommendation from a few guys on the board. I also had some 730nm mini-pontoons made. I've received my lights and I'm really impressed by the build quality and apparent brightness (I know judging by human eyesight is not the best). I'm also pleasantly surprised that my drivers are not getting hot - barely warm to the touch. The 24W panels themselves get pretty warm without some sort of cooling. Since I already have a good 12V power supply available to me in my cab, and since I'm trying to go for best-bang-for-the-buck, I went with active cooling like the Hans panel. Again, trying to stay as simple as possible, I used blobs of high temperature hot glue to act as 1)spacer and 2)glue for my GACS (ghetto active cooling solution)
First the panel:
16 X 2700-2800K WW
2 X 6000-6500K NW
4 X 630nm Red
2 X 660nm Red
So, very much astir-like with the exception of the 2 660nm Reds.
The mini pontoons:
and GACS (i have various computer fans laying around and hadn't gotten to snipping the blue LEDs on it yet) Also, I'm well aware that I mounted the fan such that it's sucking vs. blowing -- that was unintentional at the time but its still cooling well this way:
lastly, the driver that doesn't get hot:
I'm currently running under a 5630/5050 SMD strip bucket. I'll be working to switch to 4 of these panels along with 1 or more 50W CREE xpg floods over the next weeks. I'll run the pontoons on a separate digital timer.
I bought custom 4x 1w 24-led panels from an ebay seller (Merry) on recommendation from a few guys on the board. I also had some 730nm mini-pontoons made. I've received my lights and I'm really impressed by the build quality and apparent brightness (I know judging by human eyesight is not the best). I'm also pleasantly surprised that my drivers are not getting hot - barely warm to the touch. The 24W panels themselves get pretty warm without some sort of cooling. Since I already have a good 12V power supply available to me in my cab, and since I'm trying to go for best-bang-for-the-buck, I went with active cooling like the Hans panel. Again, trying to stay as simple as possible, I used blobs of high temperature hot glue to act as 1)spacer and 2)glue for my GACS (ghetto active cooling solution)
First the panel:
16 X 2700-2800K WW
2 X 6000-6500K NW
4 X 630nm Red
2 X 660nm Red
So, very much astir-like with the exception of the 2 660nm Reds.
The mini pontoons:
and GACS (i have various computer fans laying around and hadn't gotten to snipping the blue LEDs on it yet) Also, I'm well aware that I mounted the fan such that it's sucking vs. blowing -- that was unintentional at the time but its still cooling well this way:
lastly, the driver that doesn't get hot:
I'm currently running under a 5630/5050 SMD strip bucket. I'll be working to switch to 4 of these panels along with 1 or more 50W CREE xpg floods over the next weeks. I'll run the pontoons on a separate digital timer.
And did you figure out the cause of the driver shocking you?
