Rahz
Well-Known Member
I noticed the same thing regarding 120v. This makes Inventronics drivers worth looking at (many of them are 92% effecient).
Anyway, thread turned out interesting. I guess ebay it is... eventually, if nobody wants it cheap. It will stay in my pile of things I don't want but am too lazy to get rid of. I'm waiting for the pile to reach critical mass before I break down and ebay.
Maybe a crappy consolidation prize for 2nd place in the cup comp?
I would try some parallel strings of series, I also like the handful of ebay 100 watter idea, but I have all the lamps I need ATM. I've built 4 for myself to be exact. Admittedly 3 of them were simple passively cooled creatures, but the latest fan cooled creation worked out quite nice. I sold it to a buddy who a week later wanted his money back because it killed his plants! Now it's above 4 babies and 2 mommas and they're all lovin' it like it's Mc D's. (Seriously, don't love Mc D's that stuff is bad for you). So anything else I build will be for profit. I have been purchasing metal working tools.
Should have some interesting things to show in the next couple months.
As a matter of fact, this is a great opportunity to bitch about my sheet metal misadventures. About 4 months ago I decide to have some enclosures made locally. I contacted a few people and was turned on to a sheet metal guy not far from my location. I discuss my project with him and he seemed to take an interest. I had two designs and he was able to produce a couple prototypes at reasonable prices within 2 weeks. They were almost perfect so I asked him to make me a short run of the design I liked most. 3 weeks later no word so I call him. He hadn't gotten around to it yet and mentioned it being a small job. A couple weeks later I contacted a 2nd metal worker and had him produce a test subject. Absolute crap (unusable) and he wanted $150 for it!! About a week later I contact a third metal guy and I suspect his work would have been top notch but he wanted $90 each which was a bit more than my target expense and $25 more than the first guy. So almost 3 months later I said fuck it, I'll do it myself. So yea, the moment I involved other people in my project is the moment the project ground to a halt. If you want it done right... blah blah.
/rant
Anyway, thread turned out interesting. I guess ebay it is... eventually, if nobody wants it cheap. It will stay in my pile of things I don't want but am too lazy to get rid of. I'm waiting for the pile to reach critical mass before I break down and ebay.
Maybe a crappy consolidation prize for 2nd place in the cup comp?
I would try some parallel strings of series, I also like the handful of ebay 100 watter idea, but I have all the lamps I need ATM. I've built 4 for myself to be exact. Admittedly 3 of them were simple passively cooled creatures, but the latest fan cooled creation worked out quite nice. I sold it to a buddy who a week later wanted his money back because it killed his plants! Now it's above 4 babies and 2 mommas and they're all lovin' it like it's Mc D's. (Seriously, don't love Mc D's that stuff is bad for you). So anything else I build will be for profit. I have been purchasing metal working tools.
Should have some interesting things to show in the next couple months.As a matter of fact, this is a great opportunity to bitch about my sheet metal misadventures. About 4 months ago I decide to have some enclosures made locally. I contacted a few people and was turned on to a sheet metal guy not far from my location. I discuss my project with him and he seemed to take an interest. I had two designs and he was able to produce a couple prototypes at reasonable prices within 2 weeks. They were almost perfect so I asked him to make me a short run of the design I liked most. 3 weeks later no word so I call him. He hadn't gotten around to it yet and mentioned it being a small job. A couple weeks later I contacted a 2nd metal worker and had him produce a test subject. Absolute crap (unusable) and he wanted $150 for it!! About a week later I contact a third metal guy and I suspect his work would have been top notch but he wanted $90 each which was a bit more than my target expense and $25 more than the first guy. So almost 3 months later I said fuck it, I'll do it myself. So yea, the moment I involved other people in my project is the moment the project ground to a halt. If you want it done right... blah blah.
/rant
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.......thanks for another electronic summer lesssons... 
