Step into my grow room
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MrFlux
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Hey guys, here are some pics from the final harvest.
These are two freshly cut cindy's, one on the left of the coathanger and one on the right. The one on the right is the lowest yielding plant of all with 43 gram.
The effect of C99 is like a more mellow version of mushrooms, really trippy and visual.
Some additional trim and larf drying under the cabinet. Kinda looks like a middle eastern market this way.
The trim is plenty sticky and i'll make some qwiso out of it.
This here is a single Lemon Kush, my biggest yielder with 92.3 gram.
Freshly cut ICE
Yield per plant:
C99 #1: 43.0
C99 #2: 67.1
ICE: 74.9
Lemon Kush #1: 92.3
Lemon Kush #2: 60.1
Total yield: 337.4 gram
Max power: 297W
GPW: 1.13 gram per Watt
To get the gram per kilowatt is a bit more difficult. A total of 422 kWh was consumed, but this includes ventilation and also vegging the next generation. For vegging and flowering just this crop I estimate 328 kWh was used. That would give 1.03 g/kWh. That is still a long ways away from the 1.5 g/kWh that Hans is doing.
These are two freshly cut cindy's, one on the left of the coathanger and one on the right. The one on the right is the lowest yielding plant of all with 43 gram.
The effect of C99 is like a more mellow version of mushrooms, really trippy and visual.
Some additional trim and larf drying under the cabinet. Kinda looks like a middle eastern market this way.
The trim is plenty sticky and i'll make some qwiso out of it.
This here is a single Lemon Kush, my biggest yielder with 92.3 gram.
Freshly cut ICE
Yield per plant:
C99 #1: 43.0
C99 #2: 67.1
ICE: 74.9
Lemon Kush #1: 92.3
Lemon Kush #2: 60.1
Total yield: 337.4 gram
Max power: 297W
GPW: 1.13 gram per Watt
To get the gram per kilowatt is a bit more difficult. A total of 422 kWh was consumed, but this includes ventilation and also vegging the next generation. For vegging and flowering just this crop I estimate 328 kWh was used. That would give 1.03 g/kWh. That is still a long ways away from the 1.5 g/kWh that Hans is doing.
MrFlux
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lol yeah looks like the bonsai hero doesn't trim very close. But still very impressive what he gets.nicely done sir................Hans trims with his bonsai hero product, hence the weights....lol
Btw the only other LED grow here on RIU that mentions the g/kWh that I know of is from gg/tags, I believe it was around 1.0. If there are others plz let me know.
Greengenes707
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Aww yes...the real way of calculating energy used.
Very impressive mr flux...both your grow and your contributions to the led community.
Very impressive mr flux...both your grow and your contributions to the led community.
Bueno Time
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Very nice MrFlux.
Eye of Horus
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Thank you for sharing brotha, I am really interested!
nevergoodenuf
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Great results. I don't want to hyjack your thread, but would like your thoughts on my post ( and anyone else using 40+ watt cobs) spectrum guys 200 watt fixture.
MrFlux
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Well I hope it catches on here.
Thx GG... It's weird how much enjoyment it brings, not even the end result but just the growing and tinkering and the countless hours of just staring at the plants.
MrFlux
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I haven't seen that tread (there are so many nowadays) but will look for it.
Greengenes707
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The technical term I use for that is "increasing co2 levels"...the more impressive the plants, the more co2 when your jaw is dropped.
MrFlux
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Some ingredients for a new grow light came in.
My recipe is very simple, just add some aluminium T-profile, wiring, solder and silicon glue to get this
The Mean Well HLG-185H-C1400A driver powers 5 strings in parallel, each string made up of 5 Vero 10's. The trick of parallel driving is to sort the Vero's beforehand by Vf and puzzle together a combination of strings such that the total Vf of each string differs as little as possible from each other.
The light is adjustable from 74W to 210W (230V AC power), or 67.3W to 198.9W LED power. This means the driver at max power is over 94% efficient, which agrees nicely with the spec. The other nice thing about this driver is that although it is rated for 1.4A @ 143V, it will give a higher current at lower voltages (up to a point), so as to maintain 200W output power. For this light it's 1.528A @ 130.2V. It's as if Mean Well thought "hey you payed for 200W so that's what we're gonna give you". Very thoughtful. The dimming is stepless; fully dimmed the current is 545 mA. The open circuit voltage is 143.2V, I touched it and felt no shock.
The new Vero's are 3500K since my favorite, the 4000K, is sold out at Digikey with a lead time of 2 months. Spectrum wise the Vero 3500K compares to the Cree CXA 3000K. The price of Vero's has dropped again, right after I ordered...
Here's the new light in my flower room, had to take out the older red-white-blue strings.
The older Vero strings are now powered by a Mean Well too.The two Mean Well drivers have replaced 10 cheapo drivers. Total flower power is 385W (AC) / 362W (LED) of soft running Vero's. In such a small space that is just... bright. I thought it might be too bright for the plants but no they are insatiable.
I like it jungle-style, so again a dense canopy that is inching towards to the light. The canopy temp is reaching up to 31C. Since I'm moving towards a perpetual harvest the plants here are in various stages of flowering. Flower development can be observed almost realtime now.
Also check out the spread of light, specifically the lack of harsh shadows.
My recipe is very simple, just add some aluminium T-profile, wiring, solder and silicon glue to get this
The Mean Well HLG-185H-C1400A driver powers 5 strings in parallel, each string made up of 5 Vero 10's. The trick of parallel driving is to sort the Vero's beforehand by Vf and puzzle together a combination of strings such that the total Vf of each string differs as little as possible from each other.
The light is adjustable from 74W to 210W (230V AC power), or 67.3W to 198.9W LED power. This means the driver at max power is over 94% efficient, which agrees nicely with the spec. The other nice thing about this driver is that although it is rated for 1.4A @ 143V, it will give a higher current at lower voltages (up to a point), so as to maintain 200W output power. For this light it's 1.528A @ 130.2V. It's as if Mean Well thought "hey you payed for 200W so that's what we're gonna give you". Very thoughtful. The dimming is stepless; fully dimmed the current is 545 mA. The open circuit voltage is 143.2V, I touched it and felt no shock.
The new Vero's are 3500K since my favorite, the 4000K, is sold out at Digikey with a lead time of 2 months. Spectrum wise the Vero 3500K compares to the Cree CXA 3000K. The price of Vero's has dropped again, right after I ordered...
Here's the new light in my flower room, had to take out the older red-white-blue strings.
The older Vero strings are now powered by a Mean Well too.The two Mean Well drivers have replaced 10 cheapo drivers. Total flower power is 385W (AC) / 362W (LED) of soft running Vero's. In such a small space that is just... bright. I thought it might be too bright for the plants but no they are insatiable.
I like it jungle-style, so again a dense canopy that is inching towards to the light. The canopy temp is reaching up to 31C. Since I'm moving towards a perpetual harvest the plants here are in various stages of flowering. Flower development can be observed almost realtime now.
Also check out the spread of light, specifically the lack of harsh shadows.
Bueno Time
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Awesome light upgrade MrFlux. I really like the light spread out so evenly with all those cobs and those big dimmable drivers are awesome too.
overthinkingismything
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Newark has the best price I have found on veros. Last I checked only mid 30s on vero 29s. Also, the have a 10 year warranty as of the 15th of this month.
I thought about the series parallel on the hlgs but ended up going for cxa 3070 on 1050As, as I was concerned about possible runaway. Great design, can't wait to see the results!
What variations in vF are you seeing?
I thought about the series parallel on the hlgs but ended up going for cxa 3070 on 1050As, as I was concerned about possible runaway. Great design, can't wait to see the results!
What variations in vF are you seeing?
PSUAGRO.
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The DIY'ers in this community are really some of the best around, very nice work again mr flux. You guys are at the cutting edge compared to us pre-made led panel buyers; not even the same league with the #'s
Really don't wanna get my hands dirty
...........but god damn these grows are starting to sway me
Really don't wanna get my hands dirty
...........but god damn these grows are starting to sway me
MrFlux
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Those good prices at Newark must be US only. When I go there it says that no pricing is available on the Vero's. If I select my country (NL) it goes to farnell.nl where the Vero's cost 3x as much as at Digikey...
I'm seeing pretty even heatsink temperatures, there is not really a chance for thermal runaway to develop. These white LEDs are just not very temperature sensitive. It might be a problem for red diodes with bad heatsinking. Good luck on your CXA build!
The range is from 25.6 - 26.8V @ 292 mA.
MrFlux
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I think that's very true, with DIYing you can get great numbers both as wattage and as efficiency. This light would do 1.8 µmol/J. There's a total of 900 Bridgelux 1W diodes.
Why not start small. Just an eensy little companion light. It's totally harmless, really. It's not like a gateway light that will drive you to build bigger lights, honest.Really don't wanna get my hands dirty
KineBoisin420
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Sure, sure...thats what they all say. Next thing ya know...
This is impressive, to say the least. I'm with Psuagro...you are tempting us big time with your DIY LED awesomeness!