Optic Lighting Vero COBs updated

[PurpleBuz]

Any of yall got a current discount code??i am going to buy a optic 400 watt maybe a go green 300 watt causei like the 6 lights but either one of those for sure!

your funny, apparently you just read all of the posts above steering people away from optic, and yet you still want to buy one ?

 

[coughphee.connoiseur]

riu20 for gg, for optic lighting you must contact them directly.

 

[hockeybry2]

I pulled the trigger on the go green 300 w....I just wish the panel was larger so I could get a little more coverage out of it.

 

[coughphee.connoiseur]

your funny, apparently you just read all of the posts above steering people away from optic, and yet you still want to buy one ?

Any of yall got a current discount code??i am going to buy a optic 400 watt maybe a go green 300 watt causei like the 6 lights but either one of those for sure!

I would get both honestly if u can pocket it … Will it not pay for itself in the end? if not then yeah i wouldn't get either one but thats just me.

the cxb cob from ggled will run just as efficient as the vero from optic will due to the unknown drivers ggled uses.

 

[PurpleBuz]

I would get both honestly if u can pocket it … Will it not pay for itself in the end? if not then yeah i wouldn't get either one but thats just me.

the cxb cob from ggled will run just as efficient as the vero from optic will due to the unknown drivers ggled uses.

the case for the optic doesn't handle heat as well as it could, they also drive the cobs really hard lowering efficiency. get a tastyled, a PLC .

 

[coughphee.connoiseur]

your funny, apparently you just read all of the posts above steering people away from optic, and yet you still want to buy one ?

purple buz just curious you rocking a vero cob from optics?

 

[PurpleBuz]

purple buz just curious you rocking a vero cob from optics?

no but for the most part I know how to read specs, have been following optics since they first came on to riu, and understand heat management in most of the commercial cases on the market (through trial and error in my own builds)..

Just the bad business practices of the new owners of optic deserves a no buy recommendation

 

[coughphee.connoiseur]

no but for the most part I know how to read specs, have been following optics since they first came on to riu, and understand heat management in most of the commercial cases on the market (through trial and error in my own builds)..

Just the bad business practices of the new owners of optic deserves a no buy recommendation

oh my well thanks for the advice… i was tempted to get a couple of units, mostly for testing purpose and to run some side by sides live here.

 

[coughphee.connoiseur]

the case for the optic doesn't handle heat as well as it could, they also drive the cobs really hard lowering efficiency. get a tastyled, a PLC .

Im already on board with plc have a few units, I'm only purchasing other cob units to run side by side testings to compare to plc and also in need of smaller units. Tasty led i am working out some things out now.

 

[coughphee.connoiseur]

I pulled the trigger on the go green 300 w....I just wish the panel was larger so I could get a little more coverage out of it.

yep i have one i over looked the dimensions, great for a 3x2 area in a 4x2 tent though.

 

[hockeybry2]

yep i have one i over looked the dimensions, great for a 3x2 area in a 4x2 tent though.

I'm hoping to get a solid 3x3 core coverage area out of it at 18 inch above canopy

 

[coughphee.connoiseur]

I'm hoping to get a solid 3x3 core coverage area out of it at 18 inch above canopy

maybe @ 24" you will get decent coverage but it distributes light in a 2x3 2x4 or vice versa however you choose to visualize it. I know the guy who did the par mapping on the fixtures.

 

[ranger6]

your funny, apparently you just read all of the posts above steering people away from optic, and yet you still want to buy one ?

I am trying a few different ones out i bought a 500 watt about 5 months ago it wasnt a bad lamp just didnt get enough coverage inside a 5x5 also produced alot of heat was not bad i am currently looking to try another lamp maybe the go green and Pacific has been suggested

 

[ranger6]

I am trying a few different ones out i bought a 500 watt about 5 months ago it wasnt a bad lamp just didnt get enough coverage inside a 5x5 also produced alot of heat was not bad i am currently looking to try another lamp maybe the go green and Pacific has been suggested

 

[Shawndeadhead]

I appreciate your guesses, as the questions were sort of up in the air ones.

According to your numbers and based off my calculations, this was what I concluded:

A COB without using lenses -> +10 years of expected life, with ideal environment conditions (this is using COB each day for no less than 18 hours a day and for every day of the year).

A COB equipped with lenses -> 2~3 years of expected life, with ideal environment conditions (same operating times as described above).

I liked your dirt bike analogy but it doesn't give me a good sense of how long a lap around Daytona is. I hope this math helps others with deciding whether or not to try lenses.

Lap of Daytona on the oval 2.5 miles lol

 

[OneHitDone]

What happened to @AquariusPanta ?
He was a very big part of the contributions of this forum