New Build

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Well I finally got some days off work and got some progress done on my lights. I'm having a new tank built that should be done next week. I'm spreading the wealth with parts from Bill at reefledlights, stevesleds, rapid, groupledbuy and Sager. Each has their own little niche it seems. Steve's reflowed some 6500k luxeon M's for me (now they're carrying them in store). Groupledbuy had a better bin royal blue in the M plus I like the stars better. I already had a lot of cree rb, cool white, and blue from Bill. Of course Bill has the bjb solderless connectors. I got the 4 core UV from rapid and their new housings. The lime, amber, and cyan are from Steves. I really like the specs on the Phillips over the Cree. Power Supplies and LDD from Sager. I put the 7 up boards together. Nice little boards with jumpers to slave any channel to the master and nice header pins to piggy back multiple boards. I'm gonna run off apex this time instead of arduino. Finished up one out of 3 lights yesterday and working on my box. Building custom mounts for them too. Too much to do lol.

 

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Per light, 6 channels, 4 Luxeon M 6500K, 8 Luxeon M RB, 12 Cree XT-E RB, 3 quad core semiled UV, 7 lime, 7 PC Amber, 4 Cree Blue, 4 cyan. Running all at 700ma.

 

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Light mounts are gonna be clean with channels to hide the two wires.

 

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Retiring my old drivers lol. I made these before there was a decent pwm driver. They served well for some cheap tip120's. The ldd's are just too easy nowdays. A caveman can do it. Really