Enclosures are always the harder part. There are a few ready made options (MakersLED, the RapidLED boxes). I end up using shells made from acrylic since I have the equipment to cut them (laser).
DIY Radeon clone?
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Enclosures are always the harder part. There are a few ready made options (MakersLED, the RapidLED boxes). I end up using shells made from acrylic since I have the equipment to cut them (laser).
Bluefish wouldn’t be considered open source, but will do what you need. ReefPi is another open source option.
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Mr. Threatrus, are there any plans to implement a solution with higher switching frequency than PCA9685 for use with reef-pi and drivers like yours?
Edit: Also, do you know why Ada board only supports 1.5kHz? It looks like it has a 25MHz clock on the chip, doesn't make sense to me but I am ignorant.
Yes, there is. However, the LDD drivers won’t be able to support it, so I’m unsure how many will want to go this path.
The PCA9685 has a number of clock divides coupled with the 12 bit counter, so it’s really the logical max for it. I’d like to see 30-60kHz be the default, but again, LDD limits.
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Well maybe they will see the value in other drivers after thinking about frequency if we have another option
Thanks for the insight!
My biggest gripe is camera shutter interference especially at low duty cycles.
Well maybe they will see the value in other drivers after thinking about frequency if we have another option
Thanks for the insight!
I have something on that front in the works. Integrated controller / dimmer / driver package in one box.
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Kampo
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Based on reefpi?
Optional. There is no reason it can’t run stand alone.
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Kampo
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Ok so basically a bring your own pi/esp)bluefish type board?
rushbattle
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Any solutions for reef-pi and your drivers with higher switching frequency? I already have them, but it would be nice to have a higher frequency than 1550Hz. Excited about your all in one solution! Should make folks lives way easier!
Nope. All part of the package.
None yet, though emulating a PCA9685 with a suitable micro is not hard.
b4tn
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So I just read through the thread. I am trying to decide if I want to stick with the Ocean Revive lights I currently have that work, or take on a new project and build something exactly the way I want. Having control over 4-6 channels is sounding more and more attractive. Even if I dont change it much it would be nice to really fine tune the spectrum. The only issue I have is so many have thrown out so many different pucks and layouts I am not sure which one would work the best. My tank is 48" long 18" across and 21" deep with a huge pain in the ars center brace. How many of which puck would you all recommend? And where are you all getting custom ones made?
b4tn
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I am thinking 4 of these but where is it that people are going to get these with custom layout?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Channel-...188608?hash=item56afb6ed80:g:V1MAAOSwenlbB9FZ
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What would it take to, um, incentivize “someone” to do such a thing?
A few folks were mentioning Kiwilighting. No experience.
I can also do customs of layouts I have.
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Created a thread on the idea. Thoughts welcome: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/all-in-one-led-controller-dimmer-driver-project.558930/
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That's what I have. And color is pretty good. Better I think full out than a Radeon full out. But too much 480nm blue. With blue turned fodo and suppliment royal blue it's perfect.
custom I'd do would be swap the deep red on the white channel for another royal blue. Swap the 8k whites to 4k. And on the blue channel swap 2 to royal blue.
That said if I were to do it again I wouldn't go with the puck.
I'd do clusters. Something like
Luxeon k16 royal blue at 600mah
2xsunplus whites
1xblue
2xhyperviolet
Or if Stevesled does the 3ups with luxeon c:
Luxeon k16 @700
3up with sunplus white, mint, hyper violet
3up with sunplus white, blue, hyper violet
That's roughly the power of the puck I bought. If 3ups cost 12 each it's the same price as well with far better leds. If Steve doesn't do the luxeon c threeup maybe @theatrus has some of the 6 led left strips left to do the supplimental instead as a custom layout. He didn't have any sunplus whites but had a high cri white.
A high power idea with those strips would be ( forgot the layout so might be wrong on if possible)
Strip 1
Mint white mint
3xViolet
2xk16 @700
Strip 2
Violet blue violet
Mint white mint
100 watts from a single 3in square array full out.
That got a bit long winded ..
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