General DIY LED thread

[theatrus]

New Cree colors.

Bridgelux EB constant current strips that don't require a heat sink.
Bridgelux high CRI COBs
More violet vase emitters like Seoul sun like
Violets/UV that don't die after 5000 hours. ( Suspected)
Luxeon horticulture " purple" ( like the cheap " full spectrum" LEDs that had blue plus broad red phosphors) and hort white

The boost/ buck meanwell ldd drivers.

Some aren't exactly neew, some are " advances" that aren't easily implemente

Still a shortage of high cri 6500k chips in singles.
No problem if you want 100-200 of them.

I'm still waiting to see a PC Mango available. The part number exists, and if I want to order a whole reel I could probably have it, just not well publicized. Might have been a special order for one customer.

The Seoul Viosys violets seem to handle the power much better, as does Lumileds C Violets. Not cheap though. The unknown-brand Chinese emitters were particularly trash in this area.

 

[JArnold]

New Cree colors.

Bridgelux EB constant current strips that don't require a heat sink.
Bridgelux high CRI COBs
More violet vase emitters like Seoul sun like
Violets/UV that don't die after 5000 hours. ( Suspected)
Luxeon horticulture " purple" ( like the cheap " full spectrum" LEDs that had blue plus broad red phosphors) and hort white

The boost/ buck meanwell ldd drivers.

Some aren't exactly neew, some are " advances" that aren't easily implemente

Still a shortage of high cri 6500k chips in singles.
No problem if you want 100-200 of them.

Whoa! Thanks for the update!

Where is everyone purchasing their LED's and parts from? I just placed an order of test lenses from LEDSupply.com to see if I liked the spread and frost.

 

[JArnold]

Is there a thread of people showing off their builds? What are most people using for controllers? I am currently running a Blue Fish mini on mine but I am in the process of building a Reefpi and plan to test out those features. I am extremely pleased with the Bluefish mini.

 

[Steven Garland]

I'm still waiting to see a PC Mango available. The part number exists, and if I want to order a whole reel I could probably have it, just not well publicized. Might have been a special order for one customer.

The Seoul Viosys violets seem to handle the power much better, as does Lumileds C Violets. Not cheap though. The unknown-brand Chinese emitters were particularly trash in this area.

The Viosys is a beast. I use them in my build. Have about 8 in total.

Is there a thread of people showing off their builds? What are most people using for controllers? I am currently running a Blue Fish mini on mine but I am in the process of building a Reefpi and plan to test out those features. I am extremely pleased with the Bluefish mini.

I have always used Coralux Storm's or the StevesLed Hurricane X. I just have a Storm at the moment. I always had problem with my BF Mini. Between connection issues and just messing up mg schedule. I would contact Spencer on NR get it fixed and a few months later same thing.

 

[oreo54]

I went from a BF mini to a custom driver/controller made by this person:

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[theatrus]

Swapping to my own ESP32 board:

LEDBrick - DIY LED Pendant with Pucks

Can correlate coloration upticks in euphyillia from fluorescence in my experiments. It’s worth dumping a lot of energy into this area of the spectrum even if it’s inefficient and costly. Ive had some interesting long term tweaks from even higher energies on some SPS corals as well, but it’s not...

www.reef2reef.com

The -S3 is nice as with the MCPWM you can drive a lot of PWMs. There isn't an ESPHome component for that yet but the esp-idf code is trivial.

(I've simplified my life by just doing everything with esphome, which means projects actually get done)