KeRogers Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 OK so I think I have decided on the colors that I am going to use for my tank. I am going to have two drivers with dimmers. My colors are 8 neutral whites (1500mA) 8 royal blue (1500mA) 2 regular blue (1000mA) 1 cyan (1000mA) 4 uv (750mA) 1 deep red (750mA). I was thinking of wiring them like this. Driver 1: (750mA) 1 Deep red, 1 cyan, 4 uv, 2 royal blue, 2 Neutral white. Driver 2: (1500mA) 6 Royal blue, 8 neutral white My concern with wiring this way is that I have most of the royal blue and neutral white on the same driver and can't adjust them separately. Would it be better to move some of them to the other driver and drop them down to (750mA) or keep them on the same driver and hope I like the configuration? should I just get rid of the red and cyan and get a couple of warm white? Does anyone know how well the red and cyan blend or do they stand out more than the other colors? Link to comment
evilc66 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Is there a reason you are limiting yourself to just two drivers? Adding at least one more would make your life a lot easier. You never specified what drivers you are using, so it's hard to recommend how to change things around if we don't know the voltage limits of the drivers. Can you also list what LEDs you are using so we know the approximate forward voltages? Link to comment
KeRogers Posted October 30, 2014 Author Share Posted October 30, 2014 This is my first LED project so I am going with a kit from Rapid LED. http://www.rapidled.com/solderless-jbj-nanocube-24-dimmable-retrofit-kit/ Here is a link to the kit. It has an option to use either a D driver or a P driver I am not sure which one is better or what the voltage limits are. I have been email them and they said I could but between 9 and 14 LEDs per driver. Link to comment
KeRogers Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 What if I ran 13 royal blue, 3 regular blue, 6 neutral whites and 2 warm whites? Would that can give me close to full spectrum? I haven't been hearing very many good things about green or red. I would like to use UV but that would limit what I can run everything else on that driver at. Plus I haven't heard many good things about the cheap UV LEDs anyways. Link to comment
farkwar Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Get the P if youre going that way.Easier to find controllers. What if I ran 13 royal blue, 3 regular blue, 6 neutral whites and 2 warm whites? Would that can give me close to full spectrum? I haven't been hearing very many good things about green or red. I would like to use UV but that would limit what I can run everything else on that driver at. Plus I haven't heard many good things about the cheap UV LEDs anyways. What if I ran 13 royal blue, 3 regular blue, 6 neutral whites and 2 warm whites? Would that can give me close to full spectrum? I haven't been hearing very many good things about green or red. I would like to use UV but that would limit what I can run everything else on that driver at. Plus I haven't heard many good things about the cheap UV LEDs anyways.Keep them separated. It will uncomplicate your build.Dont rule out LDD drivers Theres a coloration breakdown stickied at the top of the forum. Link to comment
CrazyEyes Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Seriously, go with some PWM drivers, whether it's LDD's or RLL sells some really nice compact drivers that are Android compatible. LDD+LDD driver board+HLG power supply+storm/typhon/bluefish/RLL controller=awesome. Link to comment
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