Looking for LED layout opinions

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by daplatapus

It's been a while since I originally planned this out, but I beleive a bunch of those single RB's were for moon lighting.

3W RBs make poor moon lights as you can't usually dim lower than 5-10% which is still too bright. I'd either add some lower power LEDs for moon lights or use the the UVs.

[PurpleMonkey]

I think 4 OCW's will be too much... that 4 red LED's there. If you do use all 4, might want to keep them turned down. From my understanding, they help "round out" the spectrum of these LED builds.

+1 on the clusters

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by PurpleMonkey

I think 4 OCW's will be too much... that 4 red LED's there. If you do use all 4, might want to keep them turned down. From my understanding, they help "round out" the spectrum of these LED builds.

+1 on the clusters

I agree, personally don't like the idea of the OCW for that reason. Blue and cyan are nice additions and you'll want them pretty much full power. Red is good too but you'll want them much lower in comparison. If it was me I'd skip all the 3 led chips, they are nice in theory but soldering will be very difficult and they will also run hotter.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by PurpleMonkey

I think 4 OCW's will be too much... that 4 red LED's there.

ok I think I am confused. your talking about reds but in his list he says
OCW = Exotic Ocean Coral White..... where is the red comming from?

Steve

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

ok I think I am confused. your talking about reds but in his list he says
OCW = Exotic Ocean Coral White..... where is the red comming from?

Steve

It's a multi LED chip, 3 different leds on one star. 1 red, 1 blue and 1 cyan. I guess together it makes something close to white so they call it ocean coral white.

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by PurpleMonkey

I think 4 OCW's will be too much... that 4 red LED's there. If you do use all 4, might want to keep them turned down. From my understanding, they help "round out" the spectrum of these LED builds.

+1 on the clusters

Yeah, that's what the guy at the supplier said as well. In my build I have only 2 shown

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by sphelps

3W RBs make poor moon lights as you can't usually dim lower than 5-10% which is still too bright. I'd either add some lower power LEDs for moon lights or use the the UVs.

I'll be running these off of LEDgroupbuy's Dim4 board and have been told that I can dim these down all the way to 0% with it and use the 3W cree RB's for moonlighting. Being my first build I'm already seeing a couple things in hind site that I'd maybe do differently. I'm also going to be using their MakersLED heat sink so nothing has to be written in stone as I can move LED's around as I go.