DIY Radeon clone?

[Jonathan Troutt]

I should just buy some and see for myself I just don’t have the extra money currently. Project for the future

 

[Metasyntactic]

Each puck is only 60W (assuming not blowing everything to 100%), so a pair or trio of the 240W or 320W Meanwell HLG series is my recommendation

https://www.meanwell.com/webapp/product/search.aspx?prod=hlg-240h

They are weather sealed and fanless. Works great as a CV power supply.

With a 12 or 15 volt nominal output?

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

Is anyone using these and have pictures of their tanks?

 

[theatrus]

With a 12 or 15 volt nominal output?

Neither. Use LED drivers (LDD, MicroDrivers, etc) and put several of the LED pucks in series, then size voltage. The limit will be the 15V UV channel, 3x will work in series off a 48V supply.

 

[Kampo]

4 will need prolly a 350 watt 48v psu.
And 10 ldd drivers.

Is anyone using these and have pictures of their tanks?

over my 20in cube.

 

[boneone]

over my 20in cube.

Kampo did you use the 2 Channel UV with Epileds?
with LDD 600mA Driver?

 

[Kampo]

Kampo did you use the 2 Channel UV with Epileds?
with LDD 600mA Driver?

Chn 1 395 600ma
Chn 2 450 1200ma
Chn 3 420 600ma
Chn 4 480 1000ma
Ch5 white 600ma

Extra LEDs added:
Ch6 mint 1000ma
Ch7 k16 450 600

 

[dantimdad]

I would run the 480nm much lower. But, I really don't like them and tend to leave them out of my designs. I have one on my nano and it's on the white channel at about 15% 700ma.

 

[theatrus]

I would run the 480nm much lower. But, I really don't like them and tend to leave them out of my designs. I have one on my nano and it's on the white channel at about 15% 700ma.

Agree. I also stopped using pure green, and use Cyan.

 

[dantimdad]

I spoke with Steve's LEDs at length about Cyan and ruled it out after the conversation.

Basically, their experience was that when they used Cyan, they experienced a type of algae that was a real nuisance and when they stopped it went away so they don't sell them. I use their lime LEDs on a channel by themselves on my nano and will see how that goes. They look really nice. If they work out, I will replace the greens on my white box light that is going on the 93 cube. But, it's lights out for now until the cycle is done.

 

[theatrus]

I spoke with Steve's LEDs at length about Cyan and ruled it out after the conversation.

Basically, their experience was that when they used Cyan, they experienced a type of algae that was a real nuisance and when they stopped it went away so they don't sell them. I use their lime LEDs on a channel by themselves on my nano and will see how that goes. They look really nice. If they work out, I will replace the greens on my white box light that is going on the 93 cube. But, it's lights out for now until the cycle is done.

Curious, which algae?

Lime LEDs put out about 0.4x of their spectral energy in the same band as Cyan (around 505). Being a phosphor LED it is however much wider spread.

 

[rushbattle]

I spoke with Steve's LEDs at length about Cyan and ruled it out after the conversation.

Basically, their experience was that when they used Cyan, they experienced a type of algae that was a real nuisance and when they stopped it went away so they don't sell them. I use their lime LEDs on a channel by themselves on my nano and will see how that goes. They look really nice. If they work out, I will replace the greens on my white box light that is going on the 93 cube. But, it's lights out for now until the cycle is done.

They said the same to me, but that’s a silly reason not to use cyan IMO. Algae doesn’t scare me any longer now that I have Vibrant anyhow. Sure would be nice to have the cyan on my supplemental tristars to go with my Acrostar pucks and T5s.

 

[dantimdad]

Not sure, but, I could ask again.

I just read your initial light build thread. Impressive!

I am glad you went in to business building pucks.

Now, you need to build a 30 watt puck with 10 LEDs 4:1 660nm:450nm for refugiums. They are easy enough to slap together with 20mm stars but too big. I want a small puck with that much juice.

 

[boneone]

I found something interesting on Aliexpress Store: Veromount Store (or Dealdelight)
"The Color of the Led Beads on the PCB Board can customized as your requirement, pls feel free to contact us for the customize price, thank you."
Small Copper Board, 5 Channel, SemiLEDs ... looks nice
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cus...lgo_pvid=8aaa32ce-996c-4b9f-9772-63e37ad96d44

Hmmm
5x455nm Royal Blue Cree XT-E 1500mA
2x660nm Photo Red 2x Cool White & 1x590nm Amber XP-E HE & XP-E2 1000mA
3x395nm UV & 2x420nm Violet SemiLEDs N3535U-UNx1 1000mA
2x Cool White & 2x528nm Cyan?or more Blue;Cyclops & 1xWarm White Cree XT-E 1500mA
5x475nm Blue Cree XP-E2 1000mA

What do you think?

 

[dantimdad]

Skip the red and amber Change out the cool white for 4500K and 2700K mixed. This will cover the red spectrum and white.

I prefer lime but you can flavor the green however your eye prefers.

I either skip the 475nm or use just one or two total.

More Royal blue.

These are my experiences and observations YMMV

 

[dantimdad]

I all honesty, with 25 LEDs, I would do 10 Royal, 10 violet, 2 4500k 2 lime and 1 2700K and call it done. Run the whites and lime on a channel 1 violets channel 2 royals channel 3.
The lime will make it less blue to your eye but the energy your corals would receive would be massive and it would look very nice IMO.

I actually have the LEDs to build such an array laying around. If I had the heatsink I would do it just to have fun. I wonder if I should take my white box and change out the leds and use my drivers?

 

[boneone]

Now, you need to build a 30 watt puck with 10 LEDs 4:1 660nm:450nm for refugiums.

30Watt COB Full Spectrum in 220V cheap & easy build ^^
http://www.topledlight.com/10w-20w-...trum-380840nm-led-flood-light-220v_p2528.html
or 110v:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/MING...lgo_pvid=7ccca414-aa6a-4ff9-926d-0e32732a1acd

 

[dantimdad]

I have the second one in that spectrum and a 20K didn't like the look of either but haven't really tried it over a fuge.

Maybe soon....

 

[boneone]

I prefer lime but you can flavor the green however your eye prefers.

i would like some lime but the LUXEON Rebel Color ES (568 nm) dont fit on these boards... maybe on a star added on a 1A channel
or are there Cree lime´s 568 nm? i just find cree amber 588 nm on digikey...
thx 4 your ideas^^

I have the second one in that spectrum and a 20K didn't like the look of either but haven't really tried it over a fuge.

i think i read some good coments about them full spectrum for a cheato refugium but i dont remember the forum and they were in a IP67 chase from amazon for ~10x the price ^^

 

[rushbattle]

I all honesty, with 25 LEDs, I would do 10 Royal, 10 violet, 2 4500k 2 lime and 1 2700K and call it done. Run the whites and lime on a channel 1 violets channel 2 royals channel 3.
The lime will make it less blue to your eye but the energy your corals would receive would be massive and it would look very nice IMO.

I actually have the LEDs to build such an array laying around. If I had the heatsink I would do it just to have fun. I wonder if I should take my white box and change out the leds and use my drivers?

This is a pretty dang good combo. I might be inclined to throw in some diodes ranging from 400nm to 440nm instead of just ten 420nm, and one cyan instead of one lime.