LEDsDoIt

Projects
Participants	Ultratux
Skills	standing on ladders, wiring shit up, cooling, the Art of Lighting
Status	Active
Niche	Other
Purpose	Infrastructure

I surfed around on banggood when I found these really cheap, really powerful LED chips (bare chip/module). Amongst many models up to 100W(!) was a nice cheap 10W module that seemingly doesn't require a constant-current source, blurts out 900 lumen, and costs 71 cent apiece. It requires a PSU and some form of heatsink obviously. Since techinc has an abundance of both and isn't afraid to tinker or have weird-looking contraptions I made the plan to buy these to increase or enhance the lights over our solder tables while freeing up the lights that are there for other, less-well lit corners (some of them have broken already, too).

So I've ordered a handful of warm-white 10W LED modules and half a handful of cool white 10W LED modules. (the solder work benefits by having a mix of warm white and cool white I think). When they get delivered (end October I guess) we'll need to fix them up with heatsinks and a PSU and hang them up.

I have bought a few extra warm white ones, perhaps for over the kitchen area, or elsewhere. The powerbar still has lots of unused channels, so... ;-)

Update: LEDs have arrived. I have done some tests on them with them a LAB powersupply today and proceeded to glue 12 of them to various old heatsinks. Now we have to wait until the (thermally conductive) glue cures. I dunno... maybe 24 hours... maybe a week or more...

Help with this project is welcome. A few loose Euros to help cover the cost of the parts, too. :-)