Roy

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"~Roy~" wrote in message
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: Couple of quick questions , OK?
:
: AM interested in doing a tank lighting project that uses only Luxeons.
: I know they produce a fair quanity of heat etc, but there is some
: terminology I do not quite understand.
:
: What is a PUCK?
: What is a SLUG?
: What is a DRIVER?
:
: Best I can figure out a Puck is a device that regulates the input
: power?
:
: Best I can figure out a Slug is a heat sink or a thin piece of
: between luxeon back portion and the circuit board or heat sink??
:
: Best I can figure out a driver owld be the power supply or a PUCK
: perhaps??
:
: I want to use a Luxeon 1 or 3 watt for fuge lighting on my PICO tanks,
: and I want to make a PICO illuminated with nothing but Luxeons for
: daylight lighting, and then use LEDS for Lunar, and possibly add in
: some Red/Yellows for a sunrise/sunset effect.....and of coarse some UV
: for color enhancement of florescent critters as well.....Its the
: Luxeon terminolory thats confusing me.
: I use anodized aluminum bleacher foot board and seat material to make
: strip lighting with. Its an aluminum extrusion that is almost
: identical to Coralifes extruded aluminum they use in their hoods /
: lights, and can be had in 4" through 12" widths. I am thinking it
: would be a good base surface and help act as a huge heat sink
: especially if fans was added for additional cooling. I also have some
: huge aluminum heatsinks I obtained from various piece of equipment,
: which I used to just melt down in my home foundry and make into
: something else, but I could also add a heat sink on top of the
: aluminum housing, and enclose it all in an acrylic hood to make a
: clean looking hood / light asembly, and then add in the fans and it
: should run pretty darn cool if I am thinking this project out
: correctly.
:
: Right now I am playing around wirth a DC motor power supply /
: controller on my bandsaw that left out all its magic smoke, to see if
: I can figure out what it may take to fix it if withiin my means or
: just bite the bullet and buy a new one. I just finished checking all
: resistors, and they are all fine, now I have all the oter components
: to check out, once I read and reread the data on those items and what
: to look for. I found a website that has a lot of good trouble
: shooting proceedures for various components etc on it so its worth
: learning from. Heck its toast anyhow, so I certainly can;t hurt it any
: more than it already is, and if I can fix or maybe fix it for a few
: bucks worth of parts its a big savings of a few hundred bucks to buy a
: new one. So its worth playing with.
:
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