F-series strips, side lighting build.

J232

J232

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Yesyes3000 said:
Could I get some help with fishing a driver and wiring some of these same strips please???? They are the F series Gen 3 I have 12 of them and I attached the picture of the strips. Here is the link https://www.arrow.com/en/products/si-b8t521560ww/samsung-electronics?q=SI-B8T521560WW. Thank you
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I’m not that led savvy, you would have a few driver options depending on your diy frame/cooling. They are rated for a bit under 1.2 amps and 46 volts, if you want them at the rated 55 watts each then I assume that’s at 1.2 amps. My delta drivers put out 3.2 amps, guys are saying run led 50% of nom for best longevity and efficiency. 12 strips would need 9 to 14 amps to sweep 50% to full 1.2 amps. The strips can handle up to 1.8 amps but imagine they would take a beating and require extensive heatsink cooling. So anyways, I went with cheaper delta drivers. You need a 48 volt driver and enough amps like mentioned above.

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/search?q=Delta&prodLine=LED Power Supplies&promoGroupLevel=pl&filters=Output+Voltage+Range:48(Typ)|43 to 53;
 
J232

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And wiring led is like wiring car audio if that helps look at it with a different view. Wire these with all positives going to the positive output on the driver and all negatives to neg. If you have basic electrical knowledge it’s straight forward. That keeps 48 volts to every strip and splits the amps equal, you can wire these different ways and start adding resistors and basically use any voltage drivers and voltages but that’s getting deeper, this is DC electrical, the laws apply to LED or anything else using DC voltage. You will wire these in parallel and split the amps equal threw the strips. Wiring them in series, would split the voltage threw all strips and supply a constant amperage, won’t work seeing you would need 552 volts and 1.2 amps, well not ideal, then there’s a series parallel circuit, self explanatory.
 
Yesyes3000

Yesyes3000

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J232 said:
I’m not that led savvy, you would have a few driver options depending on your diy frame/cooling. They are rated for a bit under 1.2 amps and 46 volts, if you want them at the rated 55 watts each then I assume that’s at 1.2 amps. My delta drivers put out 3.2 amps, guys are saying run led 50% of nom for best longevity and efficiency. 12 strips would need 9 to 14 amps to sweep 50% to full 1.2 amps. The strips can handle up to 1.8 amps but imagine they would take a beating and require extensive heatsink cooling. So anyways, I went with cheaper delta drivers. You need a 48 volt driver and enough amps like mentioned above.

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/search?q=Delta&prodLine=LED Power Supplies&promoGroupLevel=pl&filters=Output+Voltage+Range:48(Typ)|43 to 53;
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Ok that’s a lot of info lol . Thank you so I’m that link you sent witch driver is the one I need and how many strips can I run on it ?
 
Yesyes3000

Yesyes3000

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J232 said:
And wiring led is like wiring car audio if that helps look at it with a different view. Wire these with all positives going to the positive output on the driver and all negatives to neg. If you have basic electrical knowledge it’s straight forward. That keeps 48 volts to every strip and splits the amps equal, you can wire these different ways and start adding resistors and basically use any voltage drivers and voltages but that’s getting deeper, this is DC electrical, the laws apply to LED or anything else using DC voltage. You will wire these in parallel and split the amps equal threw the strips. Wiring them in series, would split the voltage threw all strips and supply a constant amperage, won’t work seeing you would need 552 volts and 1.2 amps, well not ideal, then there’s a series parallel circuit, self explanatory.
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I didn’t plan on running them at there full potential wattage because I don’t want to run into heat issues and I think it will be better to run them lower wattage anyhow. I’m trying to figure out how many I should hook up to what driver. I’m gunna build a simple frame to attach them to.
 
J232

J232

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Yesyes3000 said:
Ok that’s a lot of info lol . Thank you so I’m that link you sent witch driver is the one I need and how many strips can I run on it ?
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Just look at the 48 volt drivers and look at the info, 6700mA max output means it will do 6.7 amps max, the strips are rated for 1.2amps. In your case, I would aim for 2 320 watt drivers and dim them. The 320aaa I believe has voltage and current adjusters
 
Yesyes3000

Yesyes3000

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J232 said:
2 LNE-48v320s would give 13.4 amps and hit around that 1.2 amps, would require cooling, a single would give just under .6 amps and run cool. Just depends what your doing.
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So your saying six strips to each one of these drivers ?
 
J232

J232

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Yesyes3000 said:
I didn’t plan on running them at there full potential wattage because I don’t want to run into heat issues and I think it will be better to run them lower wattage anyhow. I’m trying to figure out how many I should hook up to what driver. I’m gunna build a simple frame to attach them to.
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I’m running 20 on 4 150 watt 48 volt 3.2 amp drivers. 3.2 amps for 5 strips 143 watts by my test above. 44.9 volts x 3.21 amps = 143 watts roughly.
 
J232

J232

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Yesyes3000 said:
Six strips to a LNE-48v320 ?
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That’s running them at full 1.2 amps and would prob require dimming for heat, this is where im not that useful for giving advice, myself didn’t want to be able to run them hard, I can’t with my driver choice. Also meanwell drivers are the standard but I went with these deltas because the cost is lower.
 
Yesyes3000

Yesyes3000

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J232 said:
I’m running 20 on 4 150 watt 48 volt 3.2 amp drivers. 3.2 amps for 5 strips 143 watts by my test above. 44.9 volts x 3.21 amps = 143 watts roughly.
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Ohhh interesting ok. What driver are you useing ? So you have 5 strips at 150 watts setup 4 times ?
 
Yesyes3000

Yesyes3000

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J232 said:
That’s running them at full 1.2 amps and would prob require dimming for heat, this is where im not that useful for giving advice, myself didn’t want to be able to run them hard, I can’t with my driver choice. Also meanwell drivers are the standard but I went with these deltas because the cost is lower.
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I would run the dimmed down probably
 
J232

J232

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Yesyes3000 said:
I would run the dimmed down probably
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Yeah 2 320s is 640 watts of led, but will give you the potential for intense light, I don’t have that option as I’m pinned aIt at 50% of the nominal “test” rating of these strips. They are warm to the touch on 1/8” flat bar so I can assume they would be hot to the touch at 1.2 amps.
 
ilovereggae

ilovereggae

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J232 said:
Alright, I been dicking around collecting materials and info, here’s what I cooked up. 4 x 5 strip racks on 4 drivers, 20 strips total.

Cost, $2 a strip, $12 a driver, $75 in materials. SI-B8T521560WW 4K strips, delta LNE-48V150WAAA drivers.

Built one for now, need to assemble the other 3, haven’t checked the amps, running at 45 volts on my first rack built. Will grab a watt meter on my next amazon order. I shit canned any connectors and went with center splice and solder, heat shrink. Used abrasion tape to secure the wiring. XT-60 connectors to plug in each rack.

32” tall, 23” wide, 1” thick, can unbolt individual strips if I find or decide to change in some 3k 3500s.. can also bolt all racks together to make a overhead fixture, these racks will also swing up and peg the wall to go over head... all 4 fixtures move up the wall independently.. here’s some pics. Will update the thread when all 4 are lit up.

Simple frame, 1.5” flatbar, 1.5” x 3/4” U chan.

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Countersunk screws, taped strips on.

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Wired up and testing.

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Can see the rope for the back side light, each plant will have one. Paired with my 1700w of de and se hids overhead. Don’t mind the mess, I’m upside down with “improvements”. Cracking beans very soon...

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awesome job! only thing I see is you should stick some grommets on any holes u are passing wire through to be safe. overall one of the cleanest builds ive seen though. cant wait to see what those strips do!
 
J232

J232

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Yesyes3000 said:
Or can I run 12 on this driver HLG-480H-C1750B?
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No, you need a constant voltage driver not a constant current driver. Sorry I should of specified that, it can be done but it would take some advanced knowledge. That would be for like a bunch of 12 volt strips imo.
 
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