<div dir="ltr">Great stuff Alan! </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I put a temperature probe inside the housing of my 80W LED light.<br>
The probe was up against the acrylic lens, as I was concerned about<br>
what temperature the lens was seeing on the inside. The lens is 10mm<br>
away from the LED.<br>
The LED manufacturer told me that on normal LEDs the temperature<br>
out the front of the LED can be 338F (170C) but my flip chips should<br>
run cooler.<br>
Briefly; when run at 30W in water they stabilised at 257F after 5 minutes.<br>
At 45W they stabilised at 280F after 5 minutes. I stopped upping the amps<br>
at this stage.<br>
Next experiment, I filled the housing with silicone oil.<br>
At 45W it hit 116F in 4 minutes & temperature stabilised.<br>
At 76W it hit 139F in 6 minutes & stabilised.<br>
So oil has massive advantages in lessening temperature on the lens,<br>
maybe because it is a buffer from the radiant heat & also transfers the heat<br>
out through the housing quicker.<br>
Greg your thoughts would be appreciated on this; I am thinking that without the<br>
oil the acrylic lens would see temperatures at which it is formed especially<br>
if I went up to 80W. Although the outside of the lens was cold there would be a<br>
temperature transition across the thickness of the lens & it would be considerably<br>
weakened. I am building to 500ft, so it would potentially see 250 psi in operation.<br>
At this stage I haven't made up my mind whether to go with a borosilicate lens<br>
or oil fill with an acrylic lens. I had a large bubble & it would be hard to eliminate<br>
all bubbles in the oil filling process.<br>
Will try & attach photos.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Alan</font></span><br><br>
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