DIY Radeon clone?

[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.

 

[dantimdad]

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.

Sounds good. I have everything but the cyan and other violets but those are easy to come by.

The violets I use go from 410-430 with a peak at 420 so I stick with them since they cover the gap to my 445-455nm royals pretty well.

 

[boneone]

Found another interesting chineese PCB 8Channel !!! :):rolleyes: 69W "XR30 3535 led", looks new, but nor mutch info on SMD & color;Cyclops

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New...lgo_pvid=d3a60dff-cae1-4444-8ced-b35fe45869cf

 

[boneone]

23 LED´s might be a new g4pro clone :D:D:D :):):) ;Stig;Stig;Stig ;Couchpotato;Couchpotato;Couchpotato ;Drool;Drool;Drool

SAME AS G4P :cool::cool::cool::D:D:D:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:;Smug;Smug;Smug;Smuggrin;Smuggrin;Smuggrin

 

[dantimdad]

That looks good except I would skip the yellow all together. then again, I might run the yellow, red and green in series at about 5-10% I would definitely run the B and W in series. Then you would only have to worry about 4 channels instead of 8.

If you also ran a blue board and a couple more violets with it like @Kampo did then this may be a winner. One of these, two blue boards and about 4-6 more violets would be nice on my 93 cube.

I think I might see my next project in the spring. I added it to my wish list in the app. :)

 

[petestewardson]

It's a shame they don't state which LED's specifically they are putting on. Looks really good depending on actual specs.

They do have a bit more info on this one though

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/fac...8.0&pvid=e5db2daf-6f2b-4f65-842e-259fecabc04f

 

[theatrus]

Having built an 8 channel board before, I'd much rather have a 2-3 channel board since... once I know what I like, I'm not going to go tweaking parameters all the time.

 

[dantimdad]

Having built an 8 channel board before, I'd much rather have a 2-3 channel board since... once I know what I like, I'm not going to go tweaking parameters all the time.

EXACTLY!

 

[Diggem]

Don't most controller only support 5-6 channels and can you combine the red green and yellow together to make these 5 channel how many channels do the gen4 pro have

 

[petestewardson]

Gen4 Pro has 8 channels

 

[Diggem]

What controller would handle 8 channels

 

[Kampo]

I like that it breaks out each color individually that said I prefer the one I have but this onenis more compact
Would be easier to fit into the heatsink.

Having built an 8 channel board before, I'd much rather have a 2-3 channel board since... once I know what I like, I'm not going to go tweaking parameters all the time.

I can get on board with this. But I think having discreet channels let's you drive me each diode properly instead of being restricted by the weakest one.

What controller would handle 8 channels

Reefpi stormx are a couple options

 

[dantimdad]

I like that it breaks out each color individually that said I prefer the one I have but this onenis more compact
Would be easier to fit into the heatsink.


I can get on board with this. But I think having discreet channels let's you drive me each diode properly instead of being restricted by the weakest one.



Reefpi stormx are a couple options

Well since I tend to not use a bunch of colors, this doesn't limit me I just make sure to put the violets on their own channel.

 

[Kampo]

yeah I agree you with playing with my light I think this is all that would be needed for a really nice light 24 led light

12xRB
6xUV/Violet
2-3 Mints
2-3 High CRI whites (the luxeon sunplus have good coverage in the cyan/blue range)
have the RB/UV same control channel but different drivers. undecided if I would want Mint/White on the same channel.
maybe go with 1RB 2 Mint and 1RB and 2 White on those channels. that would be a lot of blue "OOMPH" but I feel that in normal ratios you see people hardly utlize there white channel in a 1:2 ratio. this would be closer to a 1:3 Ratio.

 

[dantimdad]

@Kampo I agree.

 

[dantimdad]

Ya know, I believe a lot of times, manufacturers add all sorts of leds to just boost their numbers. They know good and well that, after folks get done playing around, they aren't going to use all of the power.

I mean, rarely do you hear of someone running all channels or even any channels at 100%. Yes, it may increase longevity of the fixture but to me, if you DIY it's a waste. Just use the actual number of bulbs you need to produce the PAR necessary.

 

[Kampo]

Agree on my setup I have 4 whites at 600 ma and 2 mints at 1000ma. For 8 RB 1200ma and 16 at 600ma and guess what I still run the white channels lower than the blues.

 

[Kampo]

posted it in another thread, but man if someone was good with electronics, would love to see if someone could resurect this project o2surplus had going back a few years ago before his health declined. in a reef setting it would make a really nice setup

 

[CwStrife]

posted it in another thread, but man if someone was good with electronics, would love to see if someone could resurect this project o2surplus had going back a few years ago before his health declined. in a reef setting it would make a really nice setup

My god what is this for? Signaling aliens?