so when you are designing your own lighting COB array, the challenge is to figure out how many COBs the driver you pick out will run.
the Driver specs will give you a voltage range that will give you the constant current of the supply.
I'll do this in series...
lets run through a quick example using an
HLG-320H-C-1400 (320 watt, 1400ma constant current) and the CXB3590 36v COB:
each COB needs 36V to light up. to obtain constant current out of your driver, you need a voltage range of 114 to 229 volts
if you put only one COB on this supply, you have only reached 36V and therefore the supply will not give you the constant current and the COB will not light up.
two COBs in series will only give you 72v, they still won't light up.
three COBs in series gives you 108v and I believe they actually will light up because you are close enough.
the maximum amount of COBs for this setup is the maximum voltage of the driver / the forward voltage of the COB. that would be 229 / 36 = 6.36 or 6 COBs
and if that doesn't confuse thing, we're in good shape };-)