Help with my Vero 18's

Tazbud

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Hi All,

I pulled out my old light, it has 6 vero 18's surrounding 2x CXA 3070's.

(I say old, more just 'unused' Ive been using an identical one for umpteen grows all good -:cool:)

I need to put it too use but when i switched on to test it's doing some odd things.

All the Vero light up fine but when I switch it off only one goes immediately to an off state. The others take various times to loose the luminosity from the emitters, seen as white spots that stay hot for a few seconds.
One in particular taking longer than the others. I thought it was random but seems its the same pattern each time. I hadn't noticed this previously but may have always been the case.

Is this likely indicating a poor heatsink / paste contact from those cobs staying luminous longer?
The first one on the positve end of string is the one going off immediately, maybe the rest glowing is just remaining discharge from the power supply?

any thoughts? Thanks!....
 
Hi All,

I pulled out my old light, it has 6 vero 18's surrounding 2x CXA 3070's.

(I say old, more just 'unused' Ive been using an identical one for umpteen grows all good -:cool:)

I need to put it too use but when i switched on to test it's doing some odd things.

All the Vero light up fine but when I switch it off only one goes immediately to an off state. The others take various times to loose the luminosity from the emitters, seen as white spots that stay hot for a few seconds.
One in particular taking longer than the others. I thought it was random but seems its the same pattern each time. I hadn't noticed this previously but may have always been the case.

Is this likely indicating a poor heatsink / paste contact from those cobs staying luminous longer?
The first one on the positve end of string is the one going off immediately, maybe the rest glowing is just remaining discharge from the power supply?

any thoughts? Thanks!....
Its just residual voltage from the power supply.
 
Thanks, this is what I was thinking/hoping.
Just concerned, given it occurs in the same sequence each time, that it indicates some less well stuck cobs..
 
Thanks, this is what I was thinking/hoping.
Just concerned, given it occurs in the same sequence each time, that it indicates some less well stuck cobs..
Just some diodes that have a slightly lower forward voltage. At extremely low currents/voltages its normal to see a few diodes start to turn on before the rest - or in this case, turn off after the rest.
 
what driver are you using, sounds your capacitors are slow to discharge on your driver, try changing out the driver
Cheers
Mark
 
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