Recent content by hehehemann

I'm in Colorado and have been growing for 15 years. It used to be good and you could make a living but once it went legal the big commercial grows pretty much took over. I cant even move the stuff anymore and its much better than the commercial chemical stuff that most dispensaries sell. I agree...

Ended up doing some trial and error with the parts I have. It was just that one LED that had over heated and stopped the rest of the line from lighting. The other problem for the second light set up was the driver being faulty and wouldnt send enough power down the line of cobs. All sorted...

I will do some reading as I dont know much about multimeters. Making these lights is the easy part :) I figured out why one of the lights stopped. The first LED had fried, the screen (yellow) of it looked like shattered glass effect and I noticed the heatsink thermal paste had dried up and the...

Thought I would come back to this thread with the latest. I eventually bought a new driver, same as I was using but I still dont get any light. I have made four of these cob lights now and of the four after one year of use two have stopped working. Replaced the drivers but still no light so...

With two or more COBs there is no life at all, one COB produces the flickering. Model is the Meanwell HLG 185 C1400B I can wire it all back up in the morning and test under load.

Thanks for that pic and easy explanation. I did a few tests on different settings. at 200Vdc its showing 38 and on ACV 200 setting its showing between 81 and 82 But thats plugged into the wall and no cobs connected to it, just checking the readings from the wires that would connect to the cobs...

I have one but honestly dont know how to use it other than testing if a wire is a positive or negative. I'm still learning the electronics side of things. :) What settings do I put the voltmeter on? Thats what I'm thinking too. Oh well, its lasted 18 months and plenty of quality nugs in that time

The driver has been unplugged since it possibly went bad. I put up a different cob set up I had built for veg room. Went to use the driver on another set up I am in the process of building and its then that I found the leds would not turn on and only when powering a single cob would it show life...

The driver has been running for about 18 months then suddenly the lights didnt turn on anymore. Testing it on a single cob resulted in it flickering but once I added a second cob none would light up. At first I thought wiring but now I'm thinking its the driver so just wanted to get some...

thanks bud, I was thinking that too, must be the meanwell thats gone bad then.

Hi all, Havent posted here for a while since making my last round of LED lights. Everything has been going great but a month ago one set of led lights went out. I messed around and eventually used a second meanwell driver and it s all working again but it could have been a loose wire too as I...

Thanks for the info klx and sixstring. Lights are now hanging, only one hps to go before I'm all led now :)

If you dont attach a pot to a B model meanwell driver does it mean the driver is running at 100% to all LEDs? I just put everything together and figure I can connect the pot later, just want to get this thing hung up :)

Found out the problems with the Arctic 11 Plus cooler fan...It was the Power Supply unit causing the issues, the wires were not colored correctly. Lesson learnt to check wires and NOT presume the wires are correctly labelled :)

All good, you couldn't mislead when I was already lost. I think I will be all good from here. Thanks for providing more knowledge :)