It's brighter than I thought it would be with the Nichias in it.
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I am pleasantly surprised/impressed with the outcome. It's bright as heck and even though my camera will not show it as it truly is, the light is a neutral white and the color reproduction is awesome!
Visible, (to the camera only), PWM on Medium and Low.
The King of Nichias? This looks like it is the brightest light you have built by your island shot and my poor memory. Its amazingly creative as usual. Is the stock driver used?
I put solder on the back of the stars first, then aligned them and soldered them to the plate, by heating from underneath. Then I added the leds and heated just enough to get them to flow on to the stars. It was nerve wracking to say the least.
Yes, I used the stock driver. From reading threads in here, it seems the stock driver was only putting out about 1.4-1.5 amps per led and that was just what I wanted for the Nichias.
Thanks for the praise and support everyone. I have been working on the momentary switch wiring today and I'm just waiting for the switch to come in next week.
So I guess you had to align them with the reflector on, and then lift it back off verrrrrrrry carefully, and hope you didn’t bump anything.
I’ve always wondered what would happen if you used solder paste on the stars, and left the reflector in place to keep them centered. How would the heat affect the reflector? Would the lower melting temp of paste have any effect?