Mixing 184 vs 280 fotop

I’m going to have some left over of the skinny and wide fotop boards. They both have 800 diodes and same voltage can I wire them together with the same driver

budman410 said:

I’m going to have some left over of the skinny and wide fotop boards. They both have 800 diodes and same voltage can I wire them together with the same driver

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Give us some info, what driver? What are the electrical specs of the boards?

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You wont get even coverage since the skinny boards concentrate the spread. Electrically it could well work: both boards are based on 16 diode strings. Question is are the diodes really the same? Voltage bin and all?

Rocket Soul said:

You wont get even coverage since the skinny boards concentrate the spread. Electrically it could well work: both boards are based on 16 diode strings. Question is are the diodes really the same? Voltage bin and all?

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Not sure how I could check, when my new boards come in I could compare

budman410 said:

Not sure how I could check, when my new boards come in I could compare

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Boards came in a min ago, went ahead and wired some of them up for my veg area, been almost a month and so far it’s going well haven’t noticed any issues so far. Now I’m about to do a big No no and use 6 300 36v boards with 1 132 36v board. I made a 8ft monster fixture. I have a 600 driver and 320 driver to use. And with 22 boards the closest I can get for even wattage with a goal of 900 watts spread across the board at max during flower requires 7 boards to be on the 300 driver and the left over boards to be wired with the 600 driver. Before I fully comment I’m going to run the number with using 6 boards and with the max of the 600a driver being 670 watts I’ll see if that extra 70 can give some flex to where I can use the 6 300 boards on the 320a driver

Ok did some simple math and I’ll be able to keep them on separate drivers lol