Sourcing an LED Driver in the UK?

DeMoNeye

DeMoNeye

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I'm interested in buying a Cutter CREE COB kit, but the weight of the driver and heatsinks pushes the postage upto to excessive amounts. I'm looking at this kit - http://www.cutter.com.au/proddetail.php?prod=cut2905 - as there is no heavy driver/heatsinks included.

Can anyone suggest a UK supplier that sells LED drivers that would be suitable for this kit? I'm sorry but watts/amps/volts/parsecs etc. mean nothing to me so any help would be much appreciated!

Think I've found these items...

http://ledlightingsave.com/index.php/hlg-185h-series-185w-mean-well-single-output-switching-power-supply.html
http://ledlightingsave.com/index.php/mean-well-200w-led-power-supply-hlg-185h-c-series-led-driver.html

Would they work? Again, loads of different options on there that make no sense to me?!? Help!

I'm going to go old school on a cooling solution, probably using computer CPU coolers...
 
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Grownit4me

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Hi, I recently brought a mau kit from cutter minus driver for the same reason. I got the same meanwell driver from mouser UK £46 free p&p.
The driver you pictured is a 200watt 1400ma. If you want to dim look at 185h c1400b. The b denotes dimming on meanwell drivers.
Mouser also sell 730nm Cree diodes my latest diy project.✌
 
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THE KONASSURE

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£50 for a 200w led driver.............. someone is rich I mean you need 5 to 10 of them to do a 1 to 2m room well wish I was that rich, lol


yeah you want to get the right V and Amp output for the leds you're getting
 
DeMoNeye

DeMoNeye

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Grownit4me said:
Hi, I recently brought a mau kit from cutter minus driver for the same reason. I got the same meanwell driver from mouser UK £46 free p&p.
The driver you pictured is a 200watt 1400ma. If you want to dim look at 185h c1400b. The b denotes dimming on meanwell drivers.
Mouser also sell 730nm Cree diodes my latest diy project.✌
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Thanks for the input guys...

Just ordered a HLG-185H-C1400B driver from Mouser :clap:

Next will be working out the pennies to buy the Cutter kit next...
 
AtterStiga

AtterStiga

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DeMoNeye said:
Thanks for the input guys...

Just ordered a HLG-185H-C1400B driver from Mouser :clap:

Next will be working out the pennies to buy the Cutter kit next...
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Just what I did lol. Tme.eu has them for like US$50 and £5.70ish flat shipping up to 5kilos. Don't know exactly which is cheaper, but I feel there's too hard to source stuff in Europe and TME seems to be a useful source for plenty of necessities. They actually have some heatsinks I'm trying to size. Got my stuff today, ordered Monday. That's probably at least a day more than it will take for you. Just throwing it out there, so here's for your mood:
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DeMoNeye

DeMoNeye

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I've bought a shed load of bits to complete the build, screws, wire, fans, pots (for light and fans), fan junction box, 3a and 15a connection blocks, pot knobs, aluminium sheet to mount stuff with, tap and die set, HSS drills, nuts, bolts, washers...

My post lady is going to love me over the next week!
 
AtterStiga

AtterStiga

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DeMoNeye said:
This is sorting my mood at the moment...

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Crazy how good some larf looks when you're a stupid bastard that let it all disappear before even getting some new beans. Granted, I had to get the money to go get said beans first. Weed or money, money or weed. Why can't I have both? Just had to buy some hash, and that crap is getting old. I have gathered everything I need to build my rig, I'm just about to begin. Only thing I'm missing is the rubbing alcohol to clean the heatsinks.

Sorry for derailing your thread. You're just a hell of a lot cheaper than a shrink, and quite possibly less likely to call heat on me lol. Peace
 
AtterStiga

AtterStiga

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DeMoNeye said:
Just picked up alcohol on ebay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X142123665092.TRS0&_nkw=142123665092&_sacat=0
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You don't happen to know what it's used for? Is it something that you use on cars or, well, anything? Trying to find out who might have it. Planning on mounting tomorrow so eBay is a no go. I know they have some sort of alcohol thingie that they clean cuts and bruises with. I read something about something they put in the fuel tank to help condensation or something. Sheeit, got to get a grip.679488465608056614.jpg
 
DeMoNeye

DeMoNeye

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Boots will have it - you just want alcohol wipes or acetone (used for cleaning nail polish). It's not desperate - you just want the metal that the heat sink material is going to sit on is complete clean.

Rub with very fine wet and dry or wire wool and wipe the surface with a clean cloth and you'll be fine. Aluminum oxidizes very quickly when exposed to air (it's goes matt grey - that's aluminum rust) - you just want it polished...
 
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DeMoNeye

DeMoNeye

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Parcel from Cutter now in the UK and I had to pay £33 duty to release it through customs - received a parcel from the US at the same time, no duty?
 
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