Ahh nice they look decent. What are you driving them with may I ask?
You got a PC ase too?
I am doing a micro grow but it's more like 3sq. ft. not a PC case. You need 3-5 strips per sq. ft. about 25-30w
My light meter says the spread is very even, much better than the 3 Cree COBs I was using which gave obvious hot spots and dim areas unless you put them very high up.
I am driving them with a 12v 10 amp power supply stepped up to 22.1 v using a $5 boost converter off eBay which lets me adjust volts and current.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/DC-DC-boos...ower-supply-250W-10A-LED-Driver-/181940997254
I just soldered all the strips in parallel for ease. I don't believe in buying expensive high voltage power supplies and soldering everything in series. 22.1v is nice and safe to work around.
Ahh nice man!
That is reassuring as I started trying to work out how many I would need last night and my calculations showed that 5 of those would give me around 6000 lumens/sq ft which is bang what you want from what I have read
Yeah due to space in my case I may have to have the strips almost touching each other if I am going to fit 5 in there. Will have to come up with some creative way to mount them somehow
What do you think about getting these instead?
https://www.digikey.com/product-det...uctor-inc/SI-B8U05128HUS/1510-1585-ND/6149750
https://www.digikey.com/products/en?FV=ffecd481
nearly 30cm long. (12'' or something).
it's the same smd used for the quantum board.
240mA 22.5V. no need for an heatsink with those value.