[PSUBS-MAILIST] LED Lights

Sat Jun 20 14:28:42 EDT 2015

Also noticed Deep Sea Power & Light use Sapphire lenses. 
They are using sapphire on the latest iphones,
perhaps we could look in to that.
Alan 

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> On 21/06/2015, at 6:09 am, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Ken,
> I was looking at led light specs on the Deep Sea Power & Light site.
> http://www.deepsea.com/products/lights/
> Their lights have ranges from 11-36v. What sort of voltage range
> did you have in mind?
> Alan
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On 21/06/2015, at 4:12 am, Ken Martindale via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>> 
>> To all that responded. On the LED Lights. I’ve got enough to start on the specification. I’ll be out of town this next week but soon after the 4th of July I’ll have a rough draft ready to look at. It should answer some questions and pose other questions.
>>  
>> Thanks for the inputs. We need the spec to get what works and is applicable.
>>  
>> Ken Martindale
>>  
>> From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of David Colombo via Personal_Submersibles
>> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 9:09 PM
>> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] LED Lights
>>  
>> Hi Alan,
>> On the DW lights, Phil uses a flexable lense so it compresses as necessary if any there was any air in the alum housing. I am doing the same thing and the cables are a subconn design so no compensation is necessary for them.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> David Colombo
>> 
>> 804 College Ave
>> Santa Rosa, CA. 95404
>> (707) 536-1424
>> www.SeaQuestor.com
>> 
>>  
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>> Ken,
>> I am keen on the idea & have ordered a number of cheap led lights, torches &
>> outdoor lights in past years, with view to making something up.
>> Have had a surprizing number of failures with cheap led dive lights & torches,
>> so something built of good components that is reliable would be great.
>> I have posted this before, but there are a huge amount of lamps, reflectors, leds,
>> lenses & o-rings on Deal Extreme. You have to hunt through the spares section.
>> http://www.dx.com/c/lights-lighting-1399
>> I have been looking at bare alluminium housings that I can hard anodize. Maybe
>> just cut an o-ring grove in & oil compensate by fitting a hose barb connector & 
>> plastic oil filled tubing around the wire run. This is how they do it on the "Dual Deep Worker".
>>    I seem to remember them saying they used an oval plastic tube (could be wrong)
>> but this would be in line with our previous thread on crush pressure of round plastic
>> This could be an interesting project.
>> Thanks Alan
>>  
>>  
>> From: Hugh Fulton via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> To: 'Personal Submersibles General Discussion' <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
>> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 9:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] LED Lights
>> 
>> Hi Ken,  
>> Sounds great.
>> I have a couple of housings.  I could send you drawings.  What is your email offline.
>> Cheers, Hugh.
>> hfulton at q-subs.com
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of Ken Martindale via Personal_Submersibles
>> Sent: Friday, 19 June 2015 1:00 p.m.
>> To: 'Personal Submersibles General Discussion'
>> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] LED Lights
>> 
>> Any one there,
>> 
>> 
>> I worked at a job where I designed LED drivers. I was looking at the Bridgelux Varo 29 (BXRC-50C 10K0-L-24) which has a light output of a little over 10000 lumens. 
>> I bought one of these but haven’t fired it up, maybe tomorrow.
>> 
>> I can design the driver to interface with almost any input voltage such as 10 to 30 volts or 20 to 60 volts, etc.
>> 
>> They make reflectors for this LED so it would be relatively easy to come up with a number of 10000 lumen lights for your Subs.
>> 
>> I have some time on my hand and can design the circuitry to drive any selected LED module. Or LED.
>> 
>> I have the time and some funding to come up with lights for the subs.
>> 
>> Is anyone interested in this. We could come up with lights that would only cost the parts.
>> 
>> The first step would be to come up with a specification that would detail most of PSubs needs. Such as variable light output (10,000 to 20,000 lumens), over temperature protection, reverse polarity protection, LED over current protection, EMI, etc.
>> 
>> I would be interested in doing the design work including PWBs.
>> 
>> What do you guys think?  I would need help on the mechanical housings.
>> 
>> Cooling is a major concern but while immersed there’s lots of water. Above water Over temperature protection would prevent any damage if you left the lights on by accident.
>> 
>> Any interest? This could be fun. Jon??
>> 
>> The spec would be the first step and then with enough agreement the design process would start.
>> 
>> Not too interested in doing this commercially.
>> 
>> For what it’s worth I’m an EE specializing in switch mode power converters.
>> 
>> Ken Martindale
>> 
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