How to know what driver

rollyouron

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How do you know if a driver matches up to how many cobs are how hard you trying to run them. Here is an example. I've got 8 3590 72v coming from Kingbright. I hope this week! I ask the forum what driver I needed to run for 4 3590 and people told me the mw 185 700 but how do you figure that out? Why not 185 1400 ? What would happen if you hooked them up to the 185 1400? I'm not going to but just wonder how this stuff works.
 

SupraSPL

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At 1400mA, the CXB3590 72V class would dissipate ~104W and forward voltage would be ~74.25.

The HLG-185H-C1400 maxes out at about 143V, so you could use one COB on that driver but since this driver cost $60 there are cheaper options to do that job. If you put a pair of CXB3590s in series you would need 74.25V X 2 = 148.5V. Since the driver cannot go up to that voltage it will reduce the current output until the voltage reaches ~143-144V. In this case it would have to reduce current to ~1050mA, so each COB would dissipate ~75.5W.
 
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