How does one figure out the number of boards a certain constant voltage driver can run is? There's a max current for a given led board/qb, and I see an "operational current" in the specs, but there's no minimum? Wouldn't it just be gradually dimmer?
(Originally posted in wrong thread, my bad
@pilto)
These heatsinks they sell aren't an "HLG" product, they're produced elsewhere and shipped (from china, maybe? correct me if I'm wrong) over here. They have some sharp edges etc., and they'll rub together during shipping and stuff.
They'll almost always have some degree of small dings or scratches, sometimes worse than others. It really doesn't affect the performance, and it's only aesthetic - especially if it's where the board(s) will cover. And they'll almost always have cnc lines that some are deeper than others, or maybe a fin or row of fins/pins will be slightly askew (you can just fix/undo that pretty easy), for example.
They're very well priced, fairly readily available, pre-drilled, look dope (black) and HLG gets them in and provides them for us me, when it's very difficult to find anything else similar online (canada sucks).
I say this because I'm pretty particular and careful and my first encounter with a slightly imperfect slate single, I was going over the sinks obsessing over any imperfection and worrying. I was kinda treating it as though it was a computer cpu and heatsink situation.
It sucks they're not perfect, and I can't tell fully by the picture, but wipe them down with alcohol and see if there's any actual damage. I doubt it. It's not gonna affect anything.
If you're talking about the anti-static bags/envelopes, they occasionally re-use those, if I remember correctly. Which is probably why they're open.
How were you mistreated; did you contact them yet?