Suppliment Halide's with LED's

[sphelps]

You should check out Steve's LEDs. A cheaper alternative but also there's some info there about using aluminium tube and pressurized fans as for heat sinks which might suit you.

18 blue, 18 white, two drivers, one power supply and two fans will run you about $300 with shipping. The aluminium tube can be purchased locally for pretty cheap.

Royal Blue LEDs
Cool White
Triple Driver
Power Supply
Fans

[Hiab422]

My bulbs arrived Monday they work and look great how can you lose for $9.95 a bulb for 15000k de will be ordering a couple of 20000k and see how they look.

[Lampshade]

THanks, probably going to go with modularLED though. The price is nearly the same, with meanwell drivers. Best of all I don't have to spend a day soldering, which with the chaos in my house means that it won't happen for 6+ months. It's taken me nearly a year to build my arduino controller because finding time to bring it out is near impossible. I'm just going to use an aluminium channel for a heat sink, with 6+ temp sensors on it that will shut off the LED's on high temp. If it happens often I may upgrade, but shouldn't be too bad.

[Lampshade]

Those drivers/power supply are nice though, and cheap, haha. I'll look into them a bit more. Says it can take PWM inputs, so could work pretty well.