LED brand discussion

[Nano]

Originally Posted by GinaReef

I have a DIY led build, It has 18 cool white, 13 royal blue 3 watt Bridgelux leds and chinese drivers that came in a kit from china. I added 2 red and 2 UV 3 watt leds from rapidled. After only 6 months, one of the cheap chinese drivers failed.

The colour was fine but the colous don't 'pop'. I haven't figured out which colour I need to add to get the 'pop' but I know the 3 watt reds are too strong to use except in very high ratios (1:20, 1:30) or maybe very deep tanks. I had to build filters to damp them down.

I have new drivers on order from rapidled (meanwell elm 60-48 dimmable) and some more royal blue and cool white to swap out some of my existing leds to see if there is a colour change.

Just some thoughts on my experience.

Gina

Magenta/violet helps colors pop not sure if bridgelux makes them though

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Nano

Magenta/violet helps colors pop not sure if bridgelux makes them though

Bridgelux makes a TV (true Violet) LED


Steve

[blair]

i just built a 120 bridgelux with a few of the uv,s in there not overly bright, i would think you need alot of them to make a difference also got the pinks there pretty sweet but they do make an actinic violet i wish i would have bought im sure that will add sum pop, i love the bridgelux kit so far, the only prob is dont expect much from there manual pots and be carefull which drivers you get alot of them you can not hook up a nice digital outfit to dim them, anybody good with figuring out a decent manual pot??