Making a cheapo light into a badass lm561c panel?

I'm a newb when it comes to home made leds, I do own a cheap "600w" blurple..
My question is can I just buy lm561c strips and use the same amount of diodes that the Chinese one has and swap out the board into the Chinese fixture using the same drivers etc?

You can try that until the drivers catch fire and burn your house down.

How about you just say no and maybe explain why?

Maybe just swap to a decent driver and use the heat sink and box from the Chinese one

Open the unit and see what driver it has.... then come back and you will get suggestions of parts that will work for a retrofit.

I'm using for veg at the moment, I'll wait till light out time then have a peek

Cheap Chinese blurple lights usually run 12v 750ma drivers. Hope this helps

Based on what I've seen inside of my fixtures. driver voltage isn't standardized. You need to open the case and see what drivers are in there-then you can try and match components.

blake9999 said:

You can try that until the drivers catch fire and burn your house down.

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