iPerculate
Well-Known Member
I would recommend diy strips any day if you have the capability.As I said, I'm not very inclined with most things electrical, but if my attempts with googling were successful, I came up with roughly 60 or so watts per L09 strip. This would allow me to run 7 or 8 of those off one MW 480 or even 600 driver? If I lucked out and got that somewhat right, would this work for my needs? I was about to shell out quite a bit on a prebuilt setup, but this thread really got me thinking I could really tailor it to my needs going DIY.
The less power that you run each strip, the more efficient and cooler they run. It's always better to run more strips at lower power if possible, with additional benefit of more light spread.
That being said I think 10 strips on a meanwell 480 would be better. Also as I mentioned earlier the XLG lineup from meanwell is priced cheaper, so you could use 2 of XLG-240-H-AB running 5 strips each. There is also the LRS-200-48, or the mack daddy HLG-480h-48A