Electronic – Is this power supply suitable for powering these chip on board (COB) LEDs

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I have an LED project using 100 Citizen CLU048-1212C4 LEDs.

I need to run each LED at 70W, and I want to run every 5 LEDs on 1 power supply.

I was thinking of using the MEAN WELL LSR-350-35 (it takes a long time to show PDF)

Video review of the power supply.

This screenshot is from the LED datasheet

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I saw in the power supply datasheet:

INPUT Voltage Range : 90 ~ 132VAC / 180 ~ 264VAC by switch 240 ~ 370VDC (switch on 230VAC)

This screenshot is from the power supply datasheet

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Where I live, the electrical power 220V and 50Hz.

I think if I connect the LEDs parallel it'll be good because the current of the power supply (9.7A) will be divided on the LEDs count so every LED will take 9.7A/5 = 1.94A for each LED DC voltage 36V.

I think that means 1.94*36=69.84W ~ 70W (automatically.)

  • Is that power supply good for this project?

I feel confused from this screenshot from the LED datasheet.

I think I need to drive the LEDs at ~38V to reach 1.9A, I'm not sure about that.

This screenshot is from the from the LED datasheet

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Best Answer

7000W of LEDs? Are you lighting a stadium?

Well, since this project will make you blind, it wouldn't be complete without the risk of electrocution, so let's wire the LEDs in series.

As you noticed, the voltage across your COBs varies with current (and also temperature, and between each COB). So you can't drive them with a constant voltage supply, it has to be constant current. You can, perhaps, parallel them, if they are well matched, but that's pretty hazardous because when one COB fails open, then the driver will send the whole current to the others, so they will also fail in cascade.

So you want to run the COBs at around 2 amps, let's look for a constant current driver that will do that...

Meanwell ELG-240-C2100 looks like it, it can output 120V 2A so it will power 3 COBs in series.

There are of course many more options regarding output voltage: higher means more COBs in series, and more dangerous.

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