DIY LEDs with Radion Pro G2 pucks?

Patiently waiting for your post count to get high enough.

Though you could always describe a bit more on what you did in a post, kill two birds with one stone, gives you more posts, and helps get the creative juices flowing for the rest of us.
 
Yeah lets kill two birds with one stone.

Was there anything special that had to be done to get them to light up? Is it as simple and as figuring out which side is the positive pin for a particular channel and which is the negative?
 
If you guys do this then there may be a market for me to sell my Gen 2 pucks

Ebay, there already is a market..........

there is the Aurora, and Lumia chips out there as competition, I'd think these should go for something reasonable considering they'd be used.
 
I dunno, the Aurora and Lumina are relatively expensive compared to the Ecotech pucks, you get 2 for $150, so $75 a piece, and that's the Gen3 upgrade.
 
......but I'll soon feel bad for anyone buying second hand and trying to upgrade a legit unit........
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EcoTech should encourage the use of their chips for the DIY'er. I think the market would be pretty big. Its not like everyone is going to DIY their own fixture.
 
Shush! don't tell anyone or Ecotech will only sell them if you produce a retail recipt for a radion light.........

EcoTech should encourage the use of their chips for the DIY'er. I think the market would be pretty big. Its not like everyone is going to DIY their own fixture.

Yeah that was my exact thought process at first. Then, I reached the conclusion that one_clownfish did. I think most people would rather just pay and not have to worry about all of it. I love DIYing so if I can do it myself, even if it's roughly the same price, then I will. I don't imagine that most reefers are that way. Plus, it's always better to have half a loaf of bread than none. I would never buy a pre-assembled Radion just because of the price. Would they rather have $210 from me or nothing?
 
I'll bet the capacitors are used like capacitors in a flash gun to create lightning strikes when it is storm mode.

Not likely, that can be done just with PWM on a fast response driver like Meanwell LDD or any of the DIY pwm drivers.

I'd put my money on temperature sensing circuitry but can't find a clear enough picture to make out the component markings....
 
I would like to be able to retrofit it into my cube, that would def be a win, upgraded g1 lights and upgrade lights on my cube. I even have the LDD drives sitting in my tool box on one of the boards that was made in a group buy.
 
I believe I'll be getting a couple G2 pucks fairly soon. I plan to figure out what it'll take to DIY these puppies.

"Certainty of death! Small chance of success.... What are we waitin for?"
 
I believe I'll be getting a couple G2 pucks fairly soon. I plan to figure out what it'll take to DIY these puppies.

"Certainty of death! Small chance of success.... What are we waitin for?"

Hear hear!

If I had the extra cash then I would be doing the adventure with you! Anyone want to fund me?! You know, for science.
 
ya! science...

anyone have a good close-up pic of a G2 puck? Any I find aren't too great of quality, and I don't want to wait for the mail to start planning...

Also - anyone know where one can find SMD LEDs that would fit onto these pucks? Thinking of turning the G2 pucks into 'G2 Pros' - they look to be the same boards. I don't know what different formats of SMD LEDs exist to know what to really look for, though. Does each manufacturer have its own SMD format? or are they pretty standard?

*edit - so for example: I think I need some semiLED hyper violets, but Steve's are round with big tabs sticking out - I'd need little square ones for these pucks. So far I've not found a source for this format of semiLED brand LEDs.
 
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