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grotbags

grotbags

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also most connectors like solid core some can be a pain when trying to use stranded.
i personally use stranded but solder the end 10mm that goes into the connector, i remove a few strands of wire from the last 10mm because soldering makes it fatter.
 
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DukeFluke

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I can't get it on amazon until 27th of June earliest )from china). That's why I was asking about the 22AWG, because the one they had available on prime. I'll pay the extra few quid.

Far as the actual aluminium frame, any links to some good builds?
Watched a few Greengenes vids and had a look around, but any others you can recommend as good guide material?

Gracias
 
Rocket Soul

Rocket Soul

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DukeFluke said:
So stranded is ok?

Confusion....
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Ive used stranded but with alot of care. Get all strands in or youll have problems. Recommend tining them with solder iron. Apparently soolid core available in spaiin anymore, wtf?!?
Anyone know what would be a metric equivalent? Think both 1 and .75mm works but what would be the best?
 
grotbags

grotbags

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yer like rocket said if you using stranded tin the ends with solder and your good.
the stiffness and the abilty to hold its shape of solid core wire is good for getting the wires neat as the come through your heatsinks/ali channel and plug into the connectors on boards/strips but other than that i find it a chew.
 
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DukeFluke

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Right, update time.. I've just ordered 3 drivers.

Took @Rocket Soul and some other people's advice and decided to go with some more manageable sized fixtures instead of the big 1.2m2 designs I had in mind.

But instead of 4 x 240w fittings I've gone for 2 x 320s and one 480

Compromise

So I got 2 x HLG-320h-42AB
and 1 x HLG-480h-42AB

These are ok for my Bxeb design aren't they?

They better fuckin had be or I'll cry
 
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DukeFluke

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Rocket Soul said:
Ive used stranded but with alot of care. Get all strands in or youll have problems. Recommend tining them with solder iron. Apparently soolid core available in spaiin anymore, wtf?!?
Anyone know what would be a metric equivalent? Think both 1 and .75mm works but what would be the best?
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Does Farnell not deliver to spain, or does it cost too much?
 
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DukeFluke

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Ok brothers so I need a bit of experiential wisdom here for the design..

You'll know from your build where to leave little gaps and overlaps and stuff... so with that in mind let me run this past you..

I'll break it down into two bits -width and spacing, and length and overlaps - so we can knock them out

My space is 2m wide..

I want the lights to be 60cm wide, three of them (the 320 ones)

That'll leave me a 10 cm gap between them, give or take an inch

My idea is to use a bigger width of Alu angle for the edges for solidity and also so I can stick a strip to the very edge piece, while still leaving a few mil gap along the rim in case it knocks into something or whatever.

I want to do this so I can keep a nice tight even spacing of all the strips when I hang them all together.

Does this sound good? Any problems so far?

.............

Second part is about the length.

I want them to be 120cm long.

The strips are 56cm each. So 112 long together.

Now... I want a little gap between them. I've seen people do it to spread the light that tiny bit better.

So check out these measurements and see if I'm ok

I was thinking a 3cm gap brings me to 115cm, leaving me 5cm (2inch) so I can rest an inch on either side of the frame.

So far, any problems with this design?
 
grotbags

grotbags

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DukeFluke said:
Right, update time.. I've just ordered 3 drivers.

Took @Rocket Soul and some other people's advice and decided to go with some more manageable sized fixtures instead of the big 1.2m2 designs I had in mind.

But instead of 4 x 240w fittings I've gone for 2 x 320s and one 480

Compromise

So I got 2 x HLG-320h-42AB
and 1 x HLG-480h-42AB

These are ok for my Bxeb design aren't they?

They better fuckin had be or I'll cry
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looks like your nearly there in your planning. as good as the advice is on here (and it is good) theres nothing like building your first light for the experience it will bring, the mistakes you make on first one will get ironed out on the next one ect.
 
grotbags

grotbags

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DukeFluke said:
Ok brothers so I need a bit of experiential wisdom here for the design..

You'll know from your build where to leave little gaps and overlaps and stuff... so with that in mind let me run this past you..

I'll break it down into two bits -width and spacing, and length and overlaps - so we can knock them out

My space is 2m wide..

I want the lights to be 60cm wide, three of them (the 320 ones)

That'll leave me a 10 cm gap between them, give or take an inch

My idea is to use a bigger width of Alu angle for the edges for solidity and also so I can stick a strip to the very edge piece, while still leaving a few mil gap along the rim in case it knocks into something or whatever.

I want to do this so I can keep a nice tight even spacing of all the strips when I hang them all together.

Does this sound good? Any problems so far?

.............

Second part is about the length.

I want them to be 120cm long.

The strips are 56cm each. So 112 long together.

Now... I want a little gap between them. I've seen people do it to spread the light that tiny bit better.

So check out these measurements and see if I'm ok

I was thinking a 3cm gap brings me to 115cm, leaving me 5cm (2inch) so I can rest an inch on either side of the frame.

So far, any problems with this design?
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sounds good.
one thing to think about is if say your room is 2m x 1.2m and you covered the canopy with strips at equal spacing you will find the light is more intense in the center and will drop of to the edges, people overcome this by having larger gaps between the strips in the center and tighter round the edges. but this design is more difficult to pull off when using multiple smaller lights to make one big one.
 
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DukeFluke

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grotbags said:
sounds good.
one thing to think about is if say your room is 2m x 1.2m and you covered the canopy with strips at equal spacing you will find the light is more intense in the center and will drop of to the edges, people overcome this by having larger gaps between the strips in the center and tighter round the edges. but this design is more difficult to pull off when using multiple smaller lights to make one big one.
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Good point mate. Not sure how I'd overcome that or even where the most intense spots would be. But I could put some strips tighter towards the edges and even it out a bit
 
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