Budget Semi's vs Luxeon/Cree's

[Steven Garland]

I will give a run down of the setup though:

Channel 1 (barely cracked on which would be about 10%) 2 x semileds 4500K and 1 Luxeon 470nm blue
Channel 2(80% approx.) 4 x luxeon RB and 4 x semiled 420nm violet
Channel 3 (about 20%) 2 x luxeon lime, 1 luxeon RB

The closest I can describe the color is my buddies kessil setup. He has two 360we set to 60% color and 60% intensity and on 360we set to 100% blue and 100% intensity over his 90 corner bow. He gets an annoying amount of shimmer with that setup but loves it. Mine looks like that with about 50% of the shimmer which I like.

These are run by manually dimmable inventronics drivers.

I plan on switching out the lime for mint and one 4500k for a cyan soon just to see if I like it better. But, I may just do this on an entirely new fixture and just plug it in place. I really like it right now and don't want to mess it up.

The LEDs are mounted on a 9.5x3x1.25 heatsink with two 60mm asus quiet fans. It's comically overkill cooling which should give it a long, long life. I have it about 14" above my 18"x18"x11" 15 gallon and the spread is edge to edge. I will have PAR numbers very soon. I use no lenses but, will try a diffuser soon as well.

That is a pretty dang good mixture of leds though. Pretty close to what I have ran in the past on my builds.

I have a idea for a "pico",which will be ran off of 1 drivers: 1x Semi Neutral,1x C Mint,1x Rebel ES True Blue,1x Semi 430,1x Cyan (the Blue,Violets,Mint,Cyan will be grouped around the NW),4 Semi Royal's,2x 400-410nm Violets,2x 410-420 (I'm still playing with the amount of Violets) all grouped around the NW and colors.