Migro tests the HLG in a 2x2 with great results
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:33 pm
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nope.. almost two years for kits ( 1 & 1/2 yr for tent) running them bare... no acrylic sheet, or $50+ worth of ledil Florence per board. when I do spray, I raise the lights.. if I find dusty/dirt on diodes, just a tiny bit of isopropyl alcohol with a q-tip and your good.QuantumMechanic wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:38 amSo, all you guys using Quantum Boards... Do you use a plastic cover over your boards?
This issue would affect bare diode strips as well but I hadn't heard of a plague of QB diode deaths as yet. Guess I have to add annual diode cleaning to my maintenance SOPS if it's true..QuantumMechanic wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:38 amSo, all you guys using Quantum Boards... Do you use a plastic cover over your boards?
For clarification, in the video Shane uses a lense or acrylic sheet to protect his diodes on his HLG 288.2 board as he is concerned aboot dust or particulate accumulating and heating, causing diodes to burn out.Professor Xavier wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 3:18 pmThis issue would affect bare diode strips as well but I hadn't heard of a plague of QB diode deaths as yet. Guess I have to add annual diode cleaning to my maintenance SOPS if it's true..QuantumMechanic wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:38 amSo, all you guys using Quantum Boards... Do you use a plastic cover over your boards?
Kudos for doing a real world test. Care to share any raw data from it?QuantumMechanic wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:44 amI was kind of curious about losses... so I did a little testing. I cut off a toilet paper tube about a cm longer than my quantum sensor and with some tape, made a fixture to support various pieces of clear stuff above the sensor. This assembly was put about 3" below a daylight CFL in a cabinet. I didn't have a lot of materials to test but here's what I saw for losses:
Expensive photographic nano-coated UV filter for my DSLR camera lens -5%
Post Office clear packing tape, 2 layers -6%
Thin piece of clear plastic from the top of a display box, about 1/16" thick -10%
I want some of Shane's plastic.... It's seems to be far above most material in light transmission ability.