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i had no problem dimming with an arduino mega
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I'll work on pics. I haven't had to host a photo anywhere in years, other forums I've been on over the years have allowed direct uploading of photos so I've got to set something up. I had an account on one of the photo sites but its been so long since I used it that I don't even remember which site, let alone a user name or password.
edit: Just set up a new account, let's see if it works... drivers by dave thebrewguy heatsinks by dave thebrewguy 4 channels, each heatsink has 5 clusters of 6 LEDs. One each of violet (417nm), Luxeon RB (440-450nm), Cree XT-E RB (450-455nm), Luxeon Cool Blue (470-480nm), Luxeon 4000K (85CRI) and Luxeon 2700K (95CRI). The heatsins are 3.4x41" amd 1.5" tall. The 30 LEDs on each heatsink are controlled by 3 LDDs, the 10 whites are on a LDD-1000H, the 10 RBs are on another LDD-1000H and the violets and blues are on a LDD-700H so all drivers are matched to the maximum current for that string and each driver has a string of 10 LEDs. the center protoboard has a single LDD-300H that drives 2 strings of 2 (yes, 2) LEDs for a total of 4 RBs that are used as moonlights and they are each driven at 150mA this way, The moonlights are still to bright, I'm looking at options to reduce their output to 50-66% of their current output. A single data cable delivers the dimming signal with channel 0 being the moonlight and 1,2and 3 as V/B, RB and White, respectively. Last edited by Dave Thebrewguy; 11/24/2012 at 11:18 PM. |
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For those counting, there are 2 more LEDs, they are Luxeon Deep Red and for now they are on the Vi/Bl channel. I'll probably make a few changes, I may add a few more whites, bringing each white string to 12 LEDs. I'm also thinking of swapping out 4 of the Blues for Cyan, the leftover blues may be swapped with the current moonlights (XT-E RB).
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11/25/2012, 04:39 AM | #105 |
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But do you connect the Arduino GND to de Vin-???
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11/25/2012, 08:35 AM | #106 |
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Each protoboard has a ground bus down one side and a +48V bus down the other side. All "Vin-" and all "PWM-" are connected to the ground bus.
Edit: Keep in mind that I'm using a Reef Angel and while it is Arduino based, the layout of the bus may be different. The base unit has only 2 PWM channels, I'm running all this off an expansion module. Last edited by Dave Thebrewguy; 11/25/2012 at 08:41 AM. |
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FWIW, Reefcentral does allow you to upload attachments. You can do it either through tapatalk or you can click on 'go advanced' and choose to 'manage attachments'.
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Man... I got mine running last night at about 2:30am... still need to rebuild the actual fixture itself as it's not setup to accomodate this thing... and really need to do a nice project box or something for the pcb...
in hind sight.. I firmly believe attaching 10 700ma LDD-H drivers to a protoboard was a mistake... It left me with an unsightly mess below the board (didn't help that the board was single sided either) I also still need to actually hook the arduino up to it to control the colors... but I'm honestly very pleased with the color even with all of them at 100% Some colors I never saw before in the corals are actually highlighted a bit now, which is nice, and hopefully this cures my very drab coloration I had with just the bridgelux cool whites and royal blues... For reference... I ended up using 9 drivers (1 is bad) 2 LDD-700 with 12 royal blues a piece 2 LDD-700 with 8 royal blues and 4 normal blues 1 LDD-700 with 6 cyan and 6 green 1 LDD-700 with 4 pink and 4 red 2 LDD-700 with 8 420nm violets a piece (I think this may be wrong though.. I've heard others say that the violets are really overpowering, and I can't even tell they're on... maybe I got UV instead) 1 LDD-700 with 4 4500k and 8 6500k The only spot I notice any spotlighting whatsoever is at the top of my left island which is a rock I wanted to get rid of anyways... the rest of the tank has very nice color blending overall.. Every LED has optics on it... all the royal blues run 60 degree optics and everything else runs 80 degree optics. Pics once I make this thing look like it doesn't suck lol
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If I was going to use them on PCBs, I'd probably lay one out in Eagle and have them printed. That way I could use terminals for the wiring. That's why with my small fixture that I only had two, I just shoved them in there, making sure they were properly insulated of course.
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My pcb:
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Can you link (or PM) me info on how to have that made/ or how to make it? I Like the clean look of it.
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Hi Gep: that PCB with the LDDs looks terrific. Would you please explain the connectors on top, bottom and side?
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The connectors are linked to the Vin (top), Vout (bottom) and Arduino PWM signal (side). |
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OK Gep, that's what I guessed, but wanted to make sure.
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Your english, as far as I can judge (I'm Spanish), is perfectly understandable.
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I would love to have a pcb like that for my drivers. It would look so clean.
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You will need Eagle CAD (free PCB design software) to design a schematic and board. Once the board is designed, you create gerber files that get sent off to a board house for printing. A few weeks later, you get a nice new PCB of your design. gep etched his own board, which works and is a lot faster than waiting for a board house, but I prefer it because it's more professional and a lot less messy. Etching your own boards is great for prototyping (testing the boards) before sending them off to board house. If I ever make any boards I will post up the Eagle files.
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I've got eagle but have never really made any headway with working on it... Nothing would please me more then to have a nice pcb, all the dimmer circuits brought out to the side, power/ground on one side of the board and the led outputs on the other side...
This frickin catastrophe I built works... proof of concept.. but it just looks ugly
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I've been looking at these for a while, I really want two strings to dim to zero which the ELN's dont do... time to jump in... where is everyone buying the LDD's from? PM me if that works better. Thanks much!
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