Calling out to Weezard for LED advice

[Weezard]

Aloha BB,

300 Watts!

We would love to see the plan.
We're here to learn as well.
Everything we can.


How's the weather
in the
Nether-
lands.

:stoned:
Weezard

[MerryPrankstr]

I'd be interested too.
I'm also leaning to the "more full spectrum" side of LEDs and 300w is where I'd begin to consider a home brew lamp.

Hey, should we start a new thread?

MP

[headshake]

lol, didn't i say something about starting a new thread?


-shake

[MerryPrankstr]

Shake,
You sure did!
They say short term memory is the first to go.

MP

[headshake]

right! lol. you guys have tons of knowledge and it would be awesome to put it all in one place. i would love to build an LED array.

-shake

[DreadedHermie]

Shake, if you've got a soldering gun (or pencil) and think you could handle replacing a pickup in my granddaughter's "Hello Kitty" Stratocaster, we can show ya how to build a light. It's that easy. That's the purpose of this thread! :rastasmoke:

[headshake]

i do have a soldering iron! and i'm pretty sure i could fix it!

i know that's the purpose of this thread, but a thread is not always the best place to have said information. or at least the information should be contained in one post within a thread!

-shake

[oldmac]

Hello Headshake,

I agree it would be nice to have dedicated threads to certian projects and/or ideas. You should hear me cursing up a storm when I'm trying to wade thru like 70 pages of posts on the original Physicsnole thread, looking for something I'm sure I read there. Geeez what a waste of time.

BTW, I posted a couple of more pics of the hybred LED/T5, and included at least one of the ballast itself.(in an album on the other site) Tommrow, right before the lights go out I'm going to remove it so I can respace 2 of the floros better. I'll take some more pics then of just the T5 frame.

[DreadedHermie]

Been followin' the pics. Tell me, does it make any sense to overdrive regular T8 shoplights?

And Shake, the biggest problem with doing a straight-through tutorial on led light construction is you have to mount and measure your light sources (IMO) in order to decide the best way to power them.

So a tutorial, for a well designed light would go something like, "If your emitters match within .1Vf, do this....if they're not well matched, here are your options....." :wtf:

The whole thing becomes hypothetical and convoluted and (to me) kinda complicated. It's just way easier to mount 'em up and see whatcha got, then pick / design your drivers. :thumbsup:

And, I tried writing some tutorial-type stuff and it was a total buzz-kill. :rastasmoke:

Hermie

[headshake]

i got ya hermie! i can understand that. and i defintely don't want anyone to kill their buzz! i'm reading up more and more on it. i'll get around to actually buying some stuff and putting a small one together. got to get an HPS before i build a big one!

i've just go so many damn projects going on. and not enough funds to go around. i'm slowly knocking them out one by one though.

oldmac, thanks. visual aids always get the juices going.

off to read up more on LEDs.


-shake