Calling out to Weezard for LED advice

[khyberkitsune]

I dont think you understand the circuit.

heres another one

Circuit - AC Powered White LED Strings

I understand the circuit just fine, sir. I design LED and Induction lighting for a living.

You're not understanding something.

You can't simply scale things up and expect it to work, electrical engineering simply doesn't work like that. You've barely even figured out your conductor resistances, how are you going to match the circuitry to that to avoid creating inductive loads?

Sure you MIGHT get it to work with what you're thinking but you're about guaranteed to destroy the diode in the process.

khyberkitsune Reviewed by khyberkitsune on 02-20-2011. Calling out to Weezard for LED advice My friend, I've read your stuff here and at Steve F.'s site. I want to build a dedicated flowering lamp using Ledengin 15 watters. (4 reds, 1 blue, and possibly 1 warm white; LM 317's so I can tweak the ratios.) Essentially, a copy of your 4+1 cake pan lamp but built on a 4 x 18" finned heatsink so I can see what's going on under it.) If I were to post my picks for power supply, resistor ratings / values, etc., would you critique and perhaps offer some guidance? I have already purchased Rating: 5