Somethings Fishy
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reef led lights is a Sweeet site as well-i was 50/50 on which one to use! your build looks like its going to be sweet! any pics? hows your progress?
New DIY LED build
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Flying and LEDs. Seems I spend more time doing the LEDs on my days off its full time and when I fly I take care of emails and calls between flights. Good thing I only fly three days a week.
Both Me and Rick are looking forward to sponsoring next month.
Mojoreef
As far as the PAR readings with the Apogee I was a bit off...say 11%. The Electric readings were 630 vs 704 with the Sun Mode. Looks like the lights are 11% brighter than advertised.
Bill
Yea at least I would say, the apogee meters really have a hard time, with the greater amount of blue light present. Using the sunlight setting is a reasonable next closest thing, but still off a bit. Most of the data present shows a difference of anywhere from 17 to 23 percent.
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Good lord....are you going to light up seattle?
lol......
I look at it and think...hmmmm where do you start?
lol......
I look at it and think...hmmmm where do you start?
Okkkk.....Hmmmmm....
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Somethings Fishy
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holy crap that is alot of led's! your going to be able to see that light from the moon haha! looking forward to seeing your progress
TJL
copod
Ohhh LED star envy, that is one big ol mess of pieces to figure out bud. I think I'm glad to have only a 100 to mess with on my project. Maybe we should just pack up all our stuff and drop by Alex's for a day of soldering/assembling and mess up his un-naturally clean-n-purdy shop.
Cheers, Todd
Cheers, Todd
Darthv247
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i see u also picked up a few vortechs! good call.
Guerry
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There you go letting the cat out the bag LOL , been kind fun being inside the box looking out thow
tat2z_21
tat2z_21
So what are you planning on powering this thing with. Have you looked at possible power supplies instead of an army of drivers.
Guerry
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Nine may seem like alot but it's not for what we are going to be doing here, it going give us abilty to controll many diffent aspects of the lighting. Mojo will have many options here on how he wants the lighting to ramp up and down or where and when
Thought I would post up some of the pictures of the LEds going together in case anyone decided to give it a shot themselves.
Got all the emitters and wire and pre tinted them, this way you dont loose so much heat to the sinks when doing the final solder
then cut all the wire to the required length and color coded it with the leds.
Anyway started gluing down the leds to the small heat sinks.
Then running the wire and soldering them to the glued down emitters
Then some wire for the blue lights
First pair down couple hundred to go, lol
mike
Got all the emitters and wire and pre tinted them, this way you dont loose so much heat to the sinks when doing the final solder
then cut all the wire to the required length and color coded it with the leds.
Anyway started gluing down the leds to the small heat sinks.
Then running the wire and soldering them to the glued down emitters
Then some wire for the blue lights
First pair down couple hundred to go, lol
mike
TJL
copod
NICE! Great start Mike, I'm almost to this point as well.
Cheers, Todd
Cheers, Todd
Boomer
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Looking good Mojo 
Somethings Fishy
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looking good!
