Cheap LED Strips : A Viable Alternative

@Jetdro Kinda partially went over the same build in our PM’s but for others sake…

Looking at that, you wouldn’t want to be running it at that 620+watts will unless its set at that but i believe you can adjust it, but that would put each board at running over 150w a piece which is right at there rated max.

First i can’t comment on the r spec which is just added red but compared to there v2 qb288’s at 4 of them running near 150w a piece, your looking around 102k lumens combined going off HLG’s provided info.

To get that with the bridgelux from the spec sheets you would need to run 21 of the 1120mm ones or 42 of the 560mm ones.

So say paring with drivers and the ones we previously discussed, you could pair them with the XLG-200-L-AB drivers at either 7 of the 1120mm strips per driver or 14 of the 560mm strips per driver.

So Multiply that by three and we’ve hit our target.

Price on digikey right now before trump tariffs for you in the states, taxes and shipping is

$304usd using the 1120mm strips
or $330 using the 560mm strips

And thats counting 3 of the XLG-200-L-AB drivers

Saying that i haven’t added in the cost of some 100k linear potentiometers ($1.30 a piece), wire, and whatever material you make your bracket/frame out of.

But you should easily be running at under half the price.

Now to bring it back up, at this level you should think about that penetration vs coverage trade off that was discussed earlier and if your fine with that, mind you your throwing a lot of light regardless, me id just run the Bridgelux’s but i also am not running stuff at that capacity/size so i honestly can’t comment on how well it may work, but id guess it probably would work just fine and running multiple strips for me would probably be preferable over the 4 boards Quantums boards grouped together.

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