I'm no LED expert, in fact I'm basically a beginner. And I was not trying to make you feel bad about your purchase. I was more pointed out that these are way over hyped by people on threads like Rollitup, and people are buying into the $5 vs $29 thing without thinking it through. Compare the ones yo...

This is all an old marketing trick. They are not usually $29, they are often $5. They raise the price to $29 when stock is low, and maybe get a few suckers to buy at that price, but the real effect is that everyone is going, damn I wish I would have bought those when they were $5, and now they are $...

https://www.bridgelux.com/products/smd-products

https://cdn.samsung.com/led/file/resour ... v.10.0.pdf

Trying to decide between Samsung and Bridgelux. I've been reading the data sheets on both the Samsung Lm301B/H and the Bridgelux 2835 .2w gen2 as well as the slim gen3 The Bridgelex 2835 has a nominal drive current of 60Ma and a typical voltage of 2.9v, this gives a power of .174 watts. The maximum ...

Nice build. Planning on doing something similar with the same LEDs.

How to you affix the LED strips to the heatsink, do you use some kind of thermal glue?

And you mentioned you could have used .5" C-channels instead of the .6" heatsinks. Do you know where to buy the .5" C-channels?

Thanks.