AquaticEngineer
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- Feb 27, 2012
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While digging in my box of lighting and electronics parts I stumbled across an LED driver I had picked up off ebay about a year ago.
I think it is for a 30w high power LED, and I would like to use it to build a high power LED canister dive light.
Here's the stats that are labeled on the driver:
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WATERPROOF ELECTRONIC LED DRIVER
INPUT: 100 - 240 VAC 50/60HZ
OUTPUT: 12V 2.5A
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Recommendations for a what high power LED? Can this driver be ran off of a battery pack effectively?
I'm going to make a canister light using one of these high powered lights, the existing LED driver, and a rechargable battery pack. I'm thinking about incorporating a few ideas into this light. Definitely doing the standard waterproofing with gaskets and such, using an alluminum heat sink in the head of the light (probably a mag lite head with a slug) But I've also been toying with the idea of using the mineral oil inside the dead space of the light head to further dissipate the heat. I figure that in conjunction with diving in the cold waters of the PNW, it should stay cool.
Thoughts?
I've had a 50w high power LED with a CPU heatsink and fan wired up and running over one my coldwater marine aquariums for about a year, which is what got me thinking about doing this.
I think it is for a 30w high power LED, and I would like to use it to build a high power LED canister dive light.
Here's the stats that are labeled on the driver:
------------------------------------------------------
WATERPROOF ELECTRONIC LED DRIVER
INPUT: 100 - 240 VAC 50/60HZ
OUTPUT: 12V 2.5A
-------------------------------------------------------
Recommendations for a what high power LED? Can this driver be ran off of a battery pack effectively?
I'm going to make a canister light using one of these high powered lights, the existing LED driver, and a rechargable battery pack. I'm thinking about incorporating a few ideas into this light. Definitely doing the standard waterproofing with gaskets and such, using an alluminum heat sink in the head of the light (probably a mag lite head with a slug) But I've also been toying with the idea of using the mineral oil inside the dead space of the light head to further dissipate the heat. I figure that in conjunction with diving in the cold waters of the PNW, it should stay cool.
Thoughts?
I've had a 50w high power LED with a CPU heatsink and fan wired up and running over one my coldwater marine aquariums for about a year, which is what got me thinking about doing this.