An ultra high power direct drive LED driver

Funny you should ask… been there, done that. 2 Hp spindle motor.

I see deans plugs. is it going to be power by some LiPOs? :smiley:

Yep, 2x4S 6000 mAh NanoTech’s… They can put out over 1000 amps…

But the main reason for the Dean’s plugs is the fact that they can handle a lot of current and can be soldered to a PC board. The batteries have EC5 connectors on them.

Nice one pyro! so, how many of those 150W emitters are you putting in this light? :wink:

Probably just one, but might be driven at 300 watts or so… J)

At 10 amps, the MOSFET is only dropping 1/4 watt of heat. It has a 0.002 ohm on resistance.

I have no idea what you're saying, but I'm pretty sure it's awesome.

When I saw the deans plugs I could estimate the scale. Remote barbeque lighter?

What's going to be driven with this monsterfet?

The board is 2 x 2.5” and used through hole parts since I had them sitting around. If I do it over again, it will be surface mount and much smaller (and with lower capacity FETs). I’d probably also put the high-current gate driver on the second PWM channel/FET.

Beautiful!
J) <= that emoticon pretty much sums up my feelings while reading the specs.
I’m looking forward to your build! :slight_smile:

That’s exactly how I feel as well! :bigsmile:

I you can spare couple of W you could use peltier cooler J)

Peltier coolers are a joke. They take over 20 watts of power to produce 1 watt of cooling… and you have to get rid of the 19 watts of heat somehow…

Awesome and powerful. Whether a 75x75mm CPU fan cooler can handle the heat of the LED and the driver. It should produce a lot………………of light.

hm, didn’t know that.

That is some coolness right there, TP!! >)

That's easy. Just use a second TEC to cool the first one. :party:

MOSFET pr0n:

RDSon = 0.001 Ohm
This one is in a slightly different class though, the package is somewhat large for your board :wink:

27 bucks a pop… and you have to buy 9 of them. Also, they conveniently don’t spec some important specs…

Not sure about missing specs being convenient for anyone… which missing specs should be there?