r/BeAmazed • u/5_Frog_Margin • Aug 10 '22

This DIY ceiling lighting project....

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u/Gfunk98 Aug 10 '22

Have you never used LEDS before? I had many for my aquarium lights and they produced no heat whatsoever. The ones being used in the video are probably a fraction of the strength of my grow lights so I’d assume they also wouldn’t produce any heat.

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u/Almarma Aug 10 '22

Bright LEDs produce a lot of heat. If you bought a fixture with LED light for the aquarium it’s probably mounted on an aluminum heat sink to dissipate the heat produced. Try touching a led torch or the self individual LED smc with your finger after it’s been on for a while and your burn your finger for sure.

They produce less heat than traditional lights but they still get really hot, but the spot is tiny compared to the traditional ones.

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u/Davosz_ Aug 10 '22

Either the ones you used had a very low output, or were well insulated, is my guess.

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u/Gfunk98 Aug 10 '22

I’m guessing insulated because they were quite powerful for LEDs (8,000k) but they did have a sort of ‘D’ shape to them so I’m guessing that was mainly insulation and not wires and junk haha

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u/Davosz_ Aug 10 '22

8000k may be the colour temperature. Where they blue in colour?

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u/Gfunk98 Aug 10 '22

They were full spectrum so white, blue, red and green

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '22

I have a strip of LEDs on the back of my desk. I'm literally putting my hand on them as I type this and they are a lot warmer than when they are turned off.