Ok so as you know I was trying to go led on a budget, after wieghing out everything I decided to go with 3w led's (mainly because I was un able to order the one I wanted) but now I am going with a much wider spectrum of led's . Now I have observed the the biggist down fall of led's is that people think cw and rb hold a wide enough spectrum to sustain life. I am mixing the spectrum so I can obtain a halide or t5 spetrum . First everything will be on one driver but I will soon fix that issue. I am trieing to keep this project under 200 bucks but we will see
Heat sink was purchased from rapid led and everything else was purchased from ledgroupbuy.com, shipping was fast and staff was very helpfull.
Heatsink with splash gaurd 28$
Inventronics 40w 700ma driver 37$
6x white led 4500k 12$
6x royal blue 455nm 12$
2x deep red 660nm 6$
2x turqoise 495nm 5$
2x true violet 420nm 5$
1x 10k potentiometer 3$
Arctic alumina thermal adhesive 5g 7$
13.50$ for shipping
Cpu cooling fan(I already had lying around) 20$* not included in overall cost*
I am only useing 15 of the led's . I will be useing all 6 of the rb and all 6 of the nw then 1 of each on the tuqouise red and violet. The driver I am useing is best suited to wire the led's in series, atleast that's what I am told.
Also I went with the neutral white because of how much wider the spectrum is over the ever so popular "cool white"
Total cost so far=128$
Heat sink was purchased from rapid led and everything else was purchased from ledgroupbuy.com, shipping was fast and staff was very helpfull.
Heatsink with splash gaurd 28$
Inventronics 40w 700ma driver 37$
6x white led 4500k 12$
6x royal blue 455nm 12$
2x deep red 660nm 6$
2x turqoise 495nm 5$
2x true violet 420nm 5$
1x 10k potentiometer 3$
Arctic alumina thermal adhesive 5g 7$
13.50$ for shipping
Cpu cooling fan(I already had lying around) 20$* not included in overall cost*
I am only useing 15 of the led's . I will be useing all 6 of the rb and all 6 of the nw then 1 of each on the tuqouise red and violet. The driver I am useing is best suited to wire the led's in series, atleast that's what I am told.
Also I went with the neutral white because of how much wider the spectrum is over the ever so popular "cool white"
Total cost so far=128$
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