Help. Diy Leds

[Stevesault]

Hi I am looking for the fella I bought a DIY kit from him along time ago I've lost contact with him. The lights need work and I know nothing about them so I'm trying to get ahold of him to get help because he built it. The name brand is
Solar lux thanks I think the guy was out of London.

 

[Neopimp]

can you describe what is happening, there are a couple of people on here who have build from kits or designed and built themselves... my self included.

 

[Stevesault]

Pretty much a few leds got wet and it shorted out the system I cleaned all leds they are spotless now but still nothing is working I may have cooked a driver or two but I have no clue how to check or even get new ones lol

 

[Neopimp]

Pull the driver off the fixture. Plug it in. Check the voltage and the amps on the lead to the fixture


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[Neopimp]

You should have the max voltage the driver is rated for and what the amp rating is, 700 to 1.5 was the range when I built mine but it depends on your led types.


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[Salty Cracker]

You fried an led or two, or several. Driver is likely fine. I really don't know anything about solar lux, but on cree led's you just test each bulb with a couple of AA batteries and see if they light up or not, and the ones that don't, you just replace them with new ones. There was this one guy that I helped make a blue strip LED, well he goes and drops the whole thing in the tank, brings it back to me "it stopped working". I could tell he did the same thing (tried to clean it off), but there was salt and minor corrosion everywhere (and it was like a month old). Anyway, that was a meanwell driver and it was fine, most of the bulbs were shot.

I had some similar issues with my first DIY setup, lights would go out on me, so I bought new heatsinks with plastic splash shields, now I have maybe one LED go a year.

 

[Neopimp]

If that seems good. I am guessing that you have an "open" in the led string.


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[Neopimp]

These ideas only apply to series strings of leds. Is it a two channel fixture or just one


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[Stevesault]

I will message you with the details shortly thank you for the help guys I will get back to you in about 30 minutes

 

[Stevesault]

It is a 4 channel. I tested the leds and I do have some that are blown. I think it might be the power supply as u dont have any output power. I am going to try it with new fuses and then change the blown leds. Hopefully that will it my problems.

 

[Neopimp]

One driver 4 channel? Are there 8 wires coming out of the driver to the leds or just a pair.


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[Stevesault]

I have 8 drivers it's Mr. Hermit old light Dave found his build thread