Looking for advice on driving 3w and 1w LED's

MatCat:
there is a travel of about 4.8 meters of 22AWG wire, I wonder what that does to resistance and capacitance

At these power levels it might drop half a volt along the wire because of resistance. No biggie, but make sure you have enough overhead in the power supply.

MatCat:
and if it is enough to merit bumping up the total constant current sink to overcome the loss

All you need to worry about is that is has enough volts to play with.