grotbags
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22awg is to small, the higher the awg the smaller the diameter.Open question to everyone.
Can I use 22AWG wire for these builds or is that too big?
What's the best to use for this thing?
Cheers
22awg is to small, the higher the awg the smaller the diameter.Open question to everyone.
Can I use 22AWG wire for these builds or is that too big?
What's the best to use for this thing?
Cheers
The Bridgelux EB Gen 3 datasheet recommends using 18-24 AWG wire with a wire strip length of 7-9 mm when wiring their strips.Open question to everyone.
Can I use 22AWG wire for these builds or is that too big?
What's the best to use for this thing?
Cheers
That's a little pricey. I don't know if it's available in UK, but I've gotten 100ft of Shaxon (brand) 18 gauge solid core for about $13 USD on Amazon.Thanks people. Just found good supplier for it too.
£18 for 100ft of 18AWG is a good price yea?
Nice one
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?!?So stranded is ok?
Confusion....
Does Farnell not deliver to spain, or does it cost too much?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?
Love yaYes, for 4 ft and 2x. 2ft.
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.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
sounds good.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?
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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?
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 bitsounds 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.