These sound like they will be a great addition to the store, and should be better than the resistor set-ups for direct driving the leds.
These sound like they will be a great addition to the store, and should be better than the resistor set-ups for direct driving the leds.
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Awesome! Thanks alot Tim! I hope these work out for us.Originally Posted by Strydur
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Agreed on all of the above.
And yes, for those new people reading--drivers are MUCH better than just going resistor only. Simply because of the nature of LEDs...
Current hungry....?? YES. *CHOMP*
Voltage hungry....?? NO. Not so much.
Also, a driver saves the newbie's arse since it's awfully tough to "over voltage" an LED if you're using a driver. Duh.
But it's terribly easy to do if you're running resistor only. Give a Red-Orange LED 6v and mess up the resistor, and it's done.
Finally, it allows for you to alter your battery pack in many many ways--without having to re-think your driver or resistor or LED, etc. etc.
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It's the battery (voltage) options that I really like about using drivers instead of resistors.Originally Posted by Novastar
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These dont have many options for voltage.. 2.4-6v or something like that
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Darn... 6v is just below what I like which is (go figure) about 7.2 to 8.4v since I am a huge Li-Ion nerd.
heheh. Still... I'd pick at LEAST one up to convert any one of my resistor-only sabers on 3.6/3.7v Li-Ion.
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Still useful. 3.7, 4.5, 4.8, 6, etc...
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factory said 4.5v max, but I know people who have overdriven it. YMMV and whatnot.
Ah well. My favorite battery is still the 18650. There's a reason I bought a case of them (144 batteries... all going to good homes... and I may still need more...)
144?
What in the world for?
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Volume discount. I paid about half of what I should if I'd ordered them onsies and twosies. They're Chinese (I met a few friends while in China, and some of them do a few transactions for me every now and then) but the chemistry, amperage and charge cycle rating are all just as good as anything I could get over here.
As for what they're for, I have a side business building high-end design lighting (mostly LED and CFL based) - which is how I got into saber smithing - and I use the 18650's as the main cell in the flood and spots that go outside a house, which are charged off a self-contained solar cell -similar to this, but with Lux's or Cree's, and I resin-cast a shell to hide the light so it looks like a rock or flower pot or whatever. I also use them in lights for camping and of course, sabers.
144 won't last me a month, even with my 10-day vacation coming up.
Oh, before I forget, I might have a few extra 350 mAh drivers left over, if someone wants one. PM me. Not much good for sabers, unless you use a Cree or Seoul white emitter, which could get you as high as 100 lumens or so.
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