Here's the last one that got eaten...

Hey, Weez. Dropped in often; attempted a coupla short posts but the board ate both of 'em. No loss, jes' sayin' hey. I need to avoid that overload window of midnight-2am EST.

Thanks for the great photos. They'll clarify things for viewers, fer sure. I must say, with your reducer on the light it looks like a mini-nuclear power plant.

Going back a ways to ask:

Ever get the lenses you were waiting on?

You gonna add small heatsinks to the triacs in your dimmers? It's surprising they'll operate like that. I belive I'll glue additional sinkage to my meanwells once I get the hang of crippling my epoxy bond. Then I can bust 'em back off to reassemble the case if desired.

How about a "show us yer UFO's guts" comparison thread? Better still, with the actual power consumption included, and price paid. That's prolly the only way we'll get any "truth in advertising" out of these hucksters. I'll bet there's a dozen varieties being sold under double that many brand names.

Looks like you tacked down your leds with an extra spot of glue close to the solder pads. Probably really helps keep the bastids from squirming around as you try to work with them. My question: is that thermal epoxy, or the "other" stuff you're using (which I assume is Devcon 5 minute epoxy or something similar) to secure your leads to the heatsink.

Another question: (sorry, been saving these up for awhile ) Do you have a plan / technique for accessing the leds individually after you connected them in the 2 parallel strings? (Like to retest after a month of burn-in) Or are they staying permanently wired up once you connect the strings? I ran a "+ and -" lead to each led and tacked it down in one place with epoxy. I ran each pair of wires around to the fin / topside of the light and connected them there so I could group them according to Vf. With more than 6+2 wire pairs this may get a little sloppy looking (especially with the free-air-architecture wiring technique).


Okay, not gonna press my luck. Hitting "submit." No dare preview, pls fergive typos.