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    DiY LEDs - How to Power Them

    apologies if i brought the evil skies to shut that thread down with my latest build. perhaps i should just start a new thread.
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    well i just wired them up in parallel to see if they would spin, and they do, albeit nice and...

    well i just wired them up in parallel to see if they would spin, and they do, albeit nice and slow. if i swap out this PS to a 12v 1A, would it be beneficial
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    so i picked up some prolima pk-1 terml paste for the chips, any experience with this stuff...

    so i picked up some prolima pk-1 terml paste for the chips, any experience with this stuff? figured it would work well with the aluminum heatsyncs and transfering heat. i noticed the drivers also have no ground, is this a concern? and the fans, should i bother grounding them? i just picked up...
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    awesome. i'll swing by the computer store and grab some decent thermal paste.

    awesome. i'll swing by the computer store and grab some decent thermal paste.
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    figured i should stop hijacking your thread with my newb questions. here's another one with...

    figured i should stop hijacking your thread with my newb questions. here's another one with regards to mounting the cobs on the heatsyncs, can i use any quality thermal paste to bond the chips onto the aluminum, or should i be specifically looking for a A+B thermal adhesive? ie/...
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    DiY LED - Cree CXA3070

    i live in a warm, sticky humid asian city with protests and police beatings as we speak ;) trying to keep the whole cabinet low heat, ideally fanless but for the extra spendings on two fans i figure it's worth it overall. this is all going inside a stealthy 2'x2.5'x4.5' cabinet ala
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    DiY LED - Cree CXA3070

    i hope santa's gonna be nice! this is how far im going to get tonight. fans mounted on heatsyncs with some longass m4 bolts. thoughts on drivers mounted to the sides of the heatsyncs, OR ontop of the growbox and a wires running into the box to each of the cobs ? which design would be most...
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    DiY LED - Cree CXA3070

    I was guessing for 2 fans wired in series; 12v 0.2A power supply. but I'll listen when the guru @SupraSPL awakens :D
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    DiY LED - Cree CXA3070

    except, i found another shop selling it for 200$ rmb each. i just spent the last hour running around trying to find arctic silver thermal paste....NO DICE. It's like christmas and the toys are hanging in trees! @Dloomis514 no powersupply yet. I was hoping to dig around boxes at home until i...
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    DiY LED - Cree CXA3070

    hi all, been reading this awesome 100 page thread on the cxa3070 that everyone has been raving about. finally just got all the gear in hand and the fun begins. bought all this stuff from taobao.com for 145$ usd. the cobs and drivers should be legit, the heatsync is some no-namer china stuff, but...
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