I don't have a good way to measure the heat coming off the board but the first board is at least 2 times hotter than the last board and maybe 3 or 4 times as hot. The driver also gets extremely hot. Pots arrived today and will be installing that tonight to run it at about 200 watts or so. Will also ...

Update: I let this light run for a few hours and I noticed that all 4 boards seem to put off different amounts of heat. They should call this the goldilocks approach to wiring b/c it can heat porridge to 4 different levels. I might try to find a good way to go with a more traditional parallel wiring...

Awesome, thanks for clearing that up. Glad I can stick with the daisy chain. Do you recommend running the 144.2 at the full 1.7 amps? I see on the website it says No heatsink required for operation up to 60W so I am assuming that isn't full throttle. What would be the absolute max amps allowed? Is t...

Tip: Avoid daisy chaining multiple boards as shown in the 2nd image below. This causes first board to handle a large current and can reduce life of board's electrical trace. Wiring as shown in 1st image is preferable. Talk about confusing. The way I see it all of the images are virtually the same. ...

ah crap, was really hoping to avoid that type of setup. It seems so much worse for cable management but if the first board is getting hammered with all that current then it seems like the only option. I only fired it up for a few seconds and all boards seemed to be the exact same brightness. Maybe s...

Welp, 30+ eyeballs without any complaints was enough confirmation for me to at least fire this rig up. It did not disappoint. It damn near blinded me in broad daylight. I realize nobody really wants to give the green light on something like this, I was pretty confident things were looking ok but can...

Since this is my first build and I am still a DIY noob I wanted to get some confirmation that this all looks ok before firing it up and possibly frying the boards. I am trying to run 4 Atreum 144.2 off a Meanwell HLG-240H-36B driver. My main concern is the wiring. I tried to base it off of this grap...

Sounds like a good reason to go constant current then. The A version does seem to be a better choice in that it seems to only deliver the higher current when required

I went with the B version because I wanted an external potentiometer that can be controlled wirelessly. That seems to be much more difficult than it sounds.

Oh! Each strip will only ever pull its max. So it won't totally fry if strips burn out it will just run at max. Peace of mind enough for me. I knew this sounded too intense for safety.

Thanks.