When I did the math I was surprised how affordable the heatsinks are from heatsinkusa. They are based out of Michigan, so they might ship to the land north of the wall.
I should clean them out and then resell them to the rest of the wildlings.Ted wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:18 pmWhen I did the math I was surprised how affordable the heatsinks are from heatsinkusa. They are based out of Michigan, so they might ship to the land north of the wall.
If you hook up only 1, you need to be very careful with the voltage of the driver. Use the calculator to figure out what voltage you need to set it to in order to make it draw “X” amount of current. If you run it wide open, you could cook it.
Got ya, thank you. Since it's a 48V driver I gotta drop couple of volts down and i'm good then!LEDG wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:05 amIf you hook up only 1, you need to be very careful with the voltage of the driver. Use the calculator to figure out what voltage you need to set it to in order to make it draw “X” amount of current. If you run it wide open, you could cook it.
Have you read this thread? Lots of relevant questions and answers.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=223
The short answer is that in parallel, LEDs will demand a set amount of current at a given voltage and you are the one that gets to choose that voltage by adjusting the driver. As you increase the circuit’s voltage, the LEDs wiil demand more current. You need to set the driver to output a certain voltage to make sure the LED doesn’t demand too much current. This is the opposite of constant current setups, where you have control over the current and it is the voltage that varies on each LED.
The driver will only put out as much current as the strip wants. You have to dial that in by adjusting the voltage of the driver. You could have a driver that does 1,000,000 amps but as long as you set your voltage right, that strip will only pull what you want it to.
Yessir!Shkronis wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 4:40 pmGot ya, thank you. Since it's a 48V driver I gotta drop couple of volts down and i'm good then!LEDG wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:05 amIf you hook up only 1, you need to be very careful with the voltage of the driver. Use the calculator to figure out what voltage you need to set it to in order to make it draw “X” amount of current. If you run it wide open, you could cook it.
Have you read this thread? Lots of relevant questions and answers.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=223
The short answer is that in parallel, LEDs will demand a set amount of current at a given voltage and you are the one that gets to choose that voltage by adjusting the driver. As you increase the circuit’s voltage, the LEDs wiil demand more current. You need to set the driver to output a certain voltage to make sure the LED doesn’t demand too much current. This is the opposite of constant current setups, where you have control over the current and it is the voltage that varies on each LED.
The driver will only put out as much current as the strip wants. You have to dial that in by adjusting the voltage of the driver. You could have a driver that does 1,000,000 amps but as long as you set your voltage right, that strip will only pull what you want it to.
