LED porch light ideas
We put 250 LUMEN Gold Star LED's in our trailer last year and (so far) they're working great. Actually they're so bright I want to add a switch to the one dual lamp fixture we use all the time so I c...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Yeah Jeff.
All 60,000 lumens of it. I seem to have found myself an OEM for CREE. The heat sink was expensiiiiive! A power amp reclaim - all 14-lbs of it. The face is 1/2" thick. I am going to have a machine shop mill a 1/4" trough around the perimeter and I will seat the Lexan in it. 1-1/4" tall. It's going to take beaucoup Arctic Silver to bond six 100-watt chips.
Stadium grade lighting for a remote Mexican beach. It'll light up 20,000 sf of beach like daylight. Hopefully we can get Comision Federal de Electricidad to pay the bill.
Learning a lot about LEDs doing this stuff. When driven at ma capacity an LED is waaaay brighter than it's commercially produced poor relations. And CREE makes some bright chips. The anodizing on this heatsink is so deep it has a grainy texture except of course for the milled face. Found some carbon black euroterminals rated 1/0 wire gold plated aluminum 400 amp rated. The lamp will be sealed with chapapote meaning hot tar. The cooling fans weigh 1.3 lbs each. Used. I think they're military surplus. Synthetic oil-filled bearings. Good old Barney Kaplan Supply. :)
I think Jeff and myself are suffering from Lumen Envy.
