Water cooled COBs

Johnnycannaseed1

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After reading your post churchhaze I am kinda left mouth open thinking wow...

Engineering is beautiful thing and....Credit should definitely be given where credit is due
 

loftygoals

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So... here's version 3.

As some of you know I made a big purchase of 250x Citizen CLU046-1212 COBs. It was always my intention to run the chinese COBs for a couple of months to make sure the water cooling worked before investing in some more expensive/efficient COBs. I had intended on getting started in about a month's time but the opportunity came up to get the citizens for cheap so I took it earlier than expected.

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My intention was to have units of 600w drivers with 30 COBs each. 3x units per 8x4 tent. 90 COBs per tent.

At the moment it's pretty hot during the day so I'll be running only 2x 30 COBs until mid September.

So here's version 3. Each unit took about 2 hours to upgrade from the version 2 units I posted at the start of this thread... which isn't too bad :)

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I used aluminium angles to minimise the flexing I previously had going on.

The old COBs were removed with a razor blade, they came off pretty easily. The new COBs were stuck directly to the water blocks with Arctic Silver Thermal Advesive after a cleaning with isopropyl alcohol.

Here's a pic of one of my tents currently:

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COB surface temp is 46C, water temp out of the radiator 30C, water temp going in to the radiator 38C, floor temp 26C, canopy temp 30C.

I know it looks like some COBs are much hotter than others but really it's just a difference of a degree or two which shows up dramatically due to camera sensitivity. Likely due to differences in how well the thermal interface was applied and maybe minor differences in COB voltage.

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As I said I'll be adding another unit in the middle in about a month for 1800w top lighting. Then I'll add another 320w of side lighting per tent... that's the plan anyway!
 

CobKits

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As some of you know I made a big purchase of 250x Citizen CLU046-1212 COBs. It was always my intention to run the chinese COBs for a couple of months to make sure the water cooling worked before investing in some more expensive/efficient COBs.
citis are japanese

there are more efficient cobs than the clu058?
 

CobKits

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the one-of-these-days clu058 water-cooled build. 1 cob per square foot at about 30W will be well over 65% efficient when water cooled. citi tool says pushing 200 lm/W under those conditions. 10 W of heat dissipated over that fat ass 38 x38 mm aluminum chip is cake.

note how the BJB mounting holes fall outside of the waterblock for easy mounting

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iHearAll

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anyone playing with synthetic jet injection??? its a form of liquid cooling. realetively new. can use by means of electromagnetic diaphram pulsation. like a heartbeat. thadump movement thadump movement. but in the kilohertz. that or piezoelectric vibration at an inaudible frequency. unless you're a dog or have young ears

nothings for sale in these types of units but pretty cool. j/w

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CobKits

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anyone playing with synthetic jet injection??? its a form of liquid cooling. realetively new. can use by means of electromagnetic diaphram pulsation. like a heartbeat. thadump movement thadump movement. but in the kilohertz. that or piezoelectric vibration at an inaudible frequency. unless you're a dog or have young ears

nothings for sale in these types of units but pretty cool. j/w

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sounds like one of those high-tech expensive new things that is 1000x overkill for our very very simple heat removal needs
 

majins

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Awesome, I know what im doing when I get to the point where I cant keep the heat down in my tent.
 

iHearAll

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sounds like one of those high-tech expensive new things that is 1000x overkill for our very very simple heat removal needs
eh kinda if you wanted to hit up GE for prototypes. simpler and cheeper concept once it's manufactered. it's the process of cycling a little itty bitty amount of coolant over a little itty bitty heatsink on a cob plate but really efficient since there is not spinning motors. just up down up down. h/o youtube video can explain.
 

ttystikk

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the one-of-these-days clu058 water-cooled build. 1 cob per square foot at about 30W will be well over 65% efficient when water cooled. citi tool says pushing 200 lm/W under those conditions. 10 W of heat dissipated over that fat ass 38 x38 mm aluminum chip is cake.

note how the BJB mounting holes fall outside of the waterblock for easy mounting

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Hmmmm. I see familiar DNA there. Nice work!
 

Organic Miner

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the one-of-these-days clu058 water-cooled build. 1 cob per square foot at about 30W will be well over 65% efficient when water cooled. citi tool says pushing 200 lm/W under those conditions. 10 W of heat dissipated over that fat ass 38 x38 mm aluminum chip is cake.

note how the BJB mounting holes fall outside of the waterblock for easy mounting

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@CobKits where did you get that water block, or did you make it? Have you determined how many cobs you can fit on it effectively? Cool stuff! ;-)
 
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