Mean Well HBG-60-1400 on ModuLED Giga with CXB3590

"So on hbg-60 sn't there any "end of scale" for dimm at full power?"

Look at the spec sheet. The Mean Wells usually put out a little more but the ends of the pot adjustment (on a -1400 model) is 910 ~ 1400mA.

It sounds like you're complusive so you can use the multimeter method but you're not gaining anything. I'd caution against a newbie doing that with something like an HLG-320 (lethal power).

The Killawatt method is certainly more accurate than cranking the pot all the way up or down.

sorry I did not understand your answer, why you said "compulsive?" my language issues do not help me.


I would'nt like to use a multimeter because I'm afraid to use it, I have no confidence in the electricity( also when it is only 36V) and i know that i may damage COB or driver with wrong measure operations. Killawatt should be accurate only if you know the actual driver efficiency at different load. For example 90%efficiency is refered to the 1.05A version, for your 1.4A thats's 89% and you don't know how much would be for example at 0.9A(64%), if it is similar to the 1050 version it should be 86% efficiency ish, not 90% ...(but finally you' re right infact you said "rougly" and your is a versed method).

I only meant to ask you if I take a screwdriver and I set the potentiometer pot to maximum (hbg60-1400), will the potentiometer stops at full power (in this case 1.4A) or if it runs "continuously/endless"?

Sorry for my impatience, rocho. The Mean Well drivers I've seen, HLG and HBG varieties, have a little more adjustment capability than the listed specifications. For example, an HLG-80 adjusted all the way down to almost 50% of full current when the spec says it will only go down to 60%. Turning up the pot of an HBG-60-1400 seems to take it to a little over 1.6A.

I've noticed Mean Wells seem to come from the factory already adjusted for the rated current.

I too plan on using the HBG-60-1400 but with a cxa3070 and not for growing applications. However you guys seem to enjoy electronics, so I figured I'd jump in here.

My issue is that I need to be able to dim it in the 10% to 100% range. I know there are other options for that, such as the hgb-100-48b, but weight is consideration since we're talking 1.1 pounds vs 2.8 pounds between those two drivers. I ordered a naked pcb hgb-100p-48b to mess around with since it's much lighter, but I don't know if that's a solution for me really.

Any gurus out here could enlighten me to the possibility of doing this? I'm guessing I'd have to go down to like 100 or 200mA range.