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wisemadman

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Hey guys, i was wondering what led strips are you using for your grows ? i'm interested in getting some of those to add some lateral fill lights in my grow tent, im not in america but eu btw
 
Any LED guys can you help me figure out what I drive these at? I looked up the serial and there isn't any matching serial in data sheets. Even stranger I thought. The sheet says they do 1 or 3 up stars. This is 2.
The description pic shows they are xmL2s not the xpg. I know xmL2 can be ran up to 3000 ma (which I won't do) but there is such a difference between xmL2 and other white cree chips. Please help. I got these brand new for super cheap so I couldn't pass them up. Plz help
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Any LED guys can you help me figure out what I drive these at? I looked up the serial and there isn't any matching serial in data sheets. Even stranger I thought. The sheet says they do 1 or 3 up stars. This is 2.
The description pic shows they are xmL2s not the xpg. I know xmL2 can be ran up to 3000 ma (which I won't do) but there is such a difference between xmL2 and other white cree chips. Please help. I got these brand new for super cheap so I couldn't pass them up. Plz help
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Forward voltage for single led is 2.85-3.5v and you have two led in one board so multiple 2.85-3.5v with x2= 5.7-7v.
below forward voltage led won't light up.
 
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How many chip boards you have?
You have many options: series and parallel or bouth. This will determines your volt requirement.
You have any old driver?
 

Rocket Soul

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Thank you guys for any info I'll pm those who responded. Guess I'm not allowed to ask for help on a different thread..
The topic of this thread is to show of your diy builds and the buds youve grown under it. When people started asking for advice and how tos here (which tends to get messy since theres an abundance of opinions and ideas) i made another thread for anything else diy related; how to do things, design strategies and generally anything diy related. Its not that you cant ask for advice in two threads, its about staying on topic as described in initial post. But all good, hope you find what youre looking for... :)
 
The topic of this thread is to show of your diy builds and the buds youve grown under it. When people started asking for advice and how tos here (which tends to get messy since theres an abundance of opinions and ideas) i made another thread for anything else diy related; how to do things, design strategies and generally anything diy related. Its not that you cant ask for advice in two threads, its about staying on topic as described in initial post. But all good, hope you find what youre looking for... :)
I figured this thread would be better since these are people building and showing. My bad. I did find the info on the chips though. They are a custom 3 up with a jumper to replace the 3rd led. So..not sure what I'll be able to do with em. Lol.
 
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