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Hey, I'm in no real hurry
I'd rather it be easy to do right so I get my two perfect boards. Still haven't had the time to fool with code yet.
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Hate waiting for parts to arrive... Threw together a design for an 8 channel driver since I can't build anything yet
Does it make sense to use a barrel connector with a header for PWM? Better to just use wire to board connectors for input voltage as well perhaps? |
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As to powering the board.. Whatever works for 8A @ 60V DC for a run of 12 feet..
16GA would probably do... |
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For power, barrel jacks work if used in ratings, but I would want something like a screw terminal strip or Molex headers up at High currents.
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How about getting fancy and add parallel printer cable connector?
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DC in via the solderless connectors that are on the BlueAcro gear would be sweet.
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Boards are done tested all channels at full power using the wemos from my light and everything worked great! Down side is I don't really have any packing stuff at home so I'll probably have to wait till Monday to cut up some packing stuff...
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01/28/2018, 03:43 PM | #61 |
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Whoa!
Oh baby! Very nice. I can't wait!
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@MrMan - looks good. Can those be mounted directly on top of a heat skink? Also, is that something you are considering making a couple extra?
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If there's interest I have a few boards left that I could build up, but not worth building them 1 at a time due to cost |
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Regardless I'll still have to include another middle man / driver that takes the PWM signal and coverts it to Apex's. Steve's has that available although not sure how well it works.
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So you need the 10v analog to 5V PWM converter ?
Besides Steves there are Chinese options around.. https://www.amazon.com/Dimming-Contr...8KR0R0F0PGKG18 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010LTA6J4 https://forum.neptunesystems.com/sho...0-volts-to-PWM |
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@oreo57 - yes. Steves's are cheaper. I've not seen the other ones before that you linked. Thanks for the Neptune thread. I didn't see that one before. I may have another problem though with my power source. I bought a MeanWell HLG-240H-36. I didn't see any pwm leads. My smaller MeanWell's have them so I'm thinking I needed to buy something with another suffix to designate pwm...
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Oh well...I can place an order and get it here pretty quick. Thanks for confirmation.
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@lingwendil
curious if you have done any more work on your cluster. i've gotten mine up and running and been messing with i and really like it. realized today I wasn't paying attention to what Vero I hooked up and put a 3k one in it instead of the 4k I planned on my cluster. overall like it, barely run much white though. need to figure out why a couple of my zoas are ****ed since I switched from a SBreef i was using temporarily to my light full time this past week. they only stay open part of the day. I ended up with: Luxeon K16 running at 1000mah 2 3up stars with Lime 2xCool Blue 2xHyperViolet 1xCyan running at 700mah Vero 10 3k running at 300ma these are pics of it running at 40percent Blue 100percent "color" 15percent white. messed with camera settings a bit, this is a pretty acurate look to the tank. |
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Looks good!
I haven't had much free time lately, and last I messed around with the custom controllers I was having compiler issues getting the code to work, so no updates yet. The last couple months have been very busy, unfortunately. I'll hopefully get a crack at hooking up a driver board this week. Nice looking build you've got it seems. What controller are you using on it?
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