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Al Yamoni

Al Yamoni

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One more question please, I have two clu048 1818's left. I'm looking at the hlg-120h-c1400 to power them both. Is this going to be my most efficient option?
 
PerroVerde

PerroVerde

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Al Yamoni said:
One more question please, I have two clu048 1818's left. I'm looking at the hlg-120h-c1400 to power them both. Is this going to be my most efficient option?
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You should be great @Al Yamoni . That driver has 108 volts available and your running 2) 50 volt cobs so should be a good fit with each cod getting around 74 watts...
 
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Creed Bratton

Member
Hi. Bought an HLG-185 48A from you earlier and just finished building my light with 4 1212's in series. They are all gen6 5700k. But for some reason it doesn't work. All the wires and chips are mounted correctly. (I've checked like 5 times). But this driver, unlike my Elg versions, aren't case grounded. I've connected 2 and 2 lights to my Elg 100 and it lit up, so im thinking it has to do with the ground. The ac input is connected to the power lead (which has a ground) with wago connectors and I even attemped grounding it to the frame in addition, but nothing. Any ideas anyone?

I'm on 230v if that matters.
 
CobKits

CobKits

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Creed Bratton said:
Hi. Bought an HLG-185 48A from you earlier and just finished building my light with 4 1212's in series.
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the driver can put out 53V max

4 1212s in series requires at least 135V to light up

wire them in parallel, all 4 of them so as not to put too much current to too few chips

let us know how that works.

ive got 185-36As and 185-C1400Bs in stock now BTW. would swap you out at cost of shipping if you think that would work better for you

http://cobkits.com/product/meanwell-hlg-185h-36a-driver/

http://cobkits.com/product/meanwell-hlg-185h-c1400b-driver-constant-current/
 
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Creed Bratton

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Not sure how I didn't see that.. Got too focused on what combinations you said it could run at the bottom of the description. I'll look into wiring in parallell first, but thanks.
 
SSGrower

SSGrower

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@CobKits wondering if you have an opinion on what is a new to me Cree binning - seeing a designation of 56Q and 32Q. Approaching ridiculous expensive, 95CRI. Guessing there are other luminous flux bins, what would be reason behind shifting the color binning though? Artwork/museum display? Film industry? Quickly searched cree's website and didnt find anything, figure you'ld have some insight.
CXB3590-0000-000N0YBD56Q
and
CXB3590-0000-000N0YAB32Q
 
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kaivorth

Active Member
About to start wiring my light together.

How do you recommend connecting the wires to the driver and power cord? Trying to avoid soldering. Would twisting a 1in length of wire together with heat shrink be adequate?

I don't want to solder it and find out I messed something up. Will run it with a twist connection for this grow, then solder it next grow I'm thinking.
 
sixstring2112

sixstring2112

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kaivorth said:
About to start wiring my light together.

How do you recommend connecting the wires to the driver and power cord? Trying to avoid soldering. Would twisting a 1in length of wire together with heat shrink be adequate?

I don't want to solder it and find out I messed something up. Will run it with a twist connection for this grow, then solder it next grow I'm thinking.
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you should at least use wire nuts and tape them up after installing them.most of us use wago connectors from amazon https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_5?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=wago+connectors&sprefix=wago+,aps,180&crid=1WE5VCS9D4U8K
 
SSGrower

SSGrower

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kaivorth said:
About to start wiring my light together.

How do you recommend connecting the wires to the driver and power cord? Trying to avoid soldering. Would twisting a 1in length of wire together with heat shrink be adequate?

I don't want to solder it and find out I messed something up. Will run it with a twist connection for this grow, then solder it next grow I'm thinking.
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My .02 - get a good adjustable soldering iron, get comfortable with soldering it is a skill that will serve you well. Not to be too dickey here but if soldering / desoldering is that much of an issue perhaps DIY lighting not the best choice?
 
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kaivorth

Active Member
SSGrower said:
My .02 - get a good adjustable soldering iron, get comfortable with soldering it is a skill that will serve you well. Not to be too dickey here but if soldering / desoldering is that much of an issue perhaps DIY lighting not the best choice?
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Maybe I'll just end up soldering. I've done a couple things, I just prefer not to if I don't have to. Not a great solder iron I have.

WAGO connectors look awesome. Why don't they sell them at Home Depot?
 
pop22

pop22

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I have a couple of your 1818 based light engines. I was wondering if they could be run passive at say 55 watts
 
SSGrower

SSGrower

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kaivorth said:
Maybe I'll just end up soldering. I've done a couple things, I just prefer not to if I don't have to. Not a great solder iron I have.

WAGO connectors look awesome. Why don't they sell them at Home Depot?
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Soldering is a zen like experience. Your breathing is important not only for your relaxation (and for me to keep from shaking) but bc the airflow can really wreak havoc on what you are soldering. get in a calm environment grab some ~18g stranded copper wire, some 12g solid, a copper pipe, once you can get solder to flow on each of those you should be good to go. HD here carries Ideal connectors, however for many of the applications indicated on RIU these are "underrated", (particularly current).

P.S. go to your local hardware store any time you can, its the only thing you can do to keep hd "honest":peace:
 
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WolverineGrower

WolverineGrower

Member
Confirming this before purchase today,
6 luminus cxm 22 gen 3 3500 90 cri
1 meanwell hlg-320h-48a
6 133mm passive pin heatsinks
6 Ideal holders for citizen?

This would run 63w x 6 right?

For a 3ftx3ftx6ft tent. Not running reflectors.
 
CobKits

CobKits

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yup. right around 60W id have to check voltage.

you can use either the ideals or bjb holders

you might want to grab (4) 5 pole wagos, that would wire up like this

wago#1:
slot 1 + from driver
slot 2 to + of cob 1
slot 3 to + of cob 2
slot 4 to + of cob 3
slot 5 to wago #2

wago #2:
slot 1 from wago #1
slot 2 to + of cob 4
slot 3 to + of cob 5
slot 4 to + of cob 6
slot 5 leave open for voltage

and then the same thing on the negative side
 
WolverineGrower

WolverineGrower

Member
I knew I was missing something, thanks. Will definitely grab those. Just put it all in a cart on your site, looks to be all in stock as well, RIU still the best active code?
 
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