Kessil A150w LED spotlight bears it’s guts in a complete teardown
By Jake Adams on Mar 31, 2011
The Kessil A150W LED spotlight is a unique new LED aquarium light which packs a significant amount of value and performance in a small and affordable package. We were fortunate to have Kessil visit our blogging CentCom in Golden Colorado to show off their current stable of A150w LED spotlights in several colors and to thoroughly explain the unique design and technology that allows Kessil to squeeze in 30 watts of actively cooled LED in the volume of a beer can. We may have freaked Kessil out a little bit by analyzing and tearing apart their lights for nearly two hours before even bothering to fire one up but hey, our attention to detail is what makes blogging new and innovative products fun. We already showed you the heart of the A150w, the dense matrix array LED but continue reading to see the rest of the parts that make the Kessil LED tick.

The Kessil A150w comes in three colors, this is their Ocean Blue flavor

the entire driver board is packed onto a 2 inch square piece of silicon

A custom designed heatsink is cooled by a weather resistant fan

The cooling design pulls air over the driver board and pushes it through the heatsink, cooling both

quick-disconnect fittings allow for the easy repair and replacement of components in the future

The shallow reflector is milled from aluminum to produce a 104 degree spread

A loose dense matrix array LED that was not pulled from this lamp.

This is the Dense Matrix Array LED of the 15K Ocean Blue A150w sitting in the reflector

This is the Dense Matrix Array LED of the 15K Ocean Blue A150w

The look of the 20K Kessil A150w on an EcoMini 28 gallon
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