LED Build

[BreedersCorner]

So I have a new LED project I'm working on and I would like some advice. I would like to spread the following leds over 6 heat sinks:

48 xml2 cool white
54 royal blue leds
48 blue leds
24 uv leds
8 amber
24 green leds
And 6 red/orange leds

I have 3 HLG-185H-42B drivers
And 7 ELN-60-27D drivers

I was planning on running 2 strings of 8 xml2 white parralel on each HLG and the colors will be among the other drivers, is that ok or do you recommend another way to go?

I'm going to post my led location diagram below...

 

[Webmanny]

I honestly think that your best bet would be to follow some of these already established and tested combinations, like the picture below, rather than reinvent the wheel. Just my two cents. Good luck with your build.

RapidLED also has some good advise on their LED University:
Link

Sorry for the huge pictures, but I thought you would want to see the details up close.

Aquastar:

Mars Aqua:

 

[perkint]

Your numbers don't look too bad, but it does depend what LEDs they are and what current you intend to drive them at. Are you going to run any control/dimmer? Personally I would go for each colour on a different string with independent dimming using an arduino (or storm X/bluefish/whatever).

Tim

 

[dacianb]

I made lots of tests and red tons of threads before building my own fixture.
I would suggest to replace the cold whites with neutral whites with high CRI (4500-5000k). CRI >80
lower a lot the number of blue leds. I have 1:3 blue/deep blue ratio and still is a bit too much ink in water.
Get rid of greens and yellows and even reds - using good whites will not need them anymore.
But you still missing something into 505 nm range - no LED, except cyan will not cover that gap into spectrum.

Those are the leds I am using

Placed at 10mm distance between them to avoid any disco effect:

And this is how a favia looks under this light with all channels set to same level - no color tuning yet

 

[BreedersCorner]

Your numbers don't look too bad, but it does depend what LEDs they are and what current you intend to drive them at. Are you going to run any control/dimmer? Personally I would go for each colour on a different string with independent dimming using an arduino (or storm X/bluefish/whatever).

Tim

Yes I'm going to use the apex dimming capabilities. .