can you go into your research and why you landed on these? Simplest terms would be best for me, I am but a humble farmer. I have a platinum led and a go green led. Platinum is the blurple you refer to I think and the go green is cob, not sure the exact model they used, but its the white light.
When Albiqua said it to me I googled it & got a good explanation here:
The experience I had with platinums was not good,Constant fight with stretch and smaller buds for the amount of heat I had to deal with.11 spectrum they call it,personally I think some of the diodes they use in there seem to promote stretched out lanky plants with thin buds.But I dunno just my impression from using them.
Lol you want to call me stupid? You might check my thread first.
I didnt even think it could have been the light causing stretch, ill keep an eye on that... I have some rare darkness that got huge.
Looks like some quality to me upon unpacking. Many MeanWell drivers. Thousands of diodes. Full illumination for my girls. I'll check on specs for you guys but you'll be better off peeping the grow thread as the answers will be there. Pretty sure it's something like all plants within the 4'x4' section are getting whacked with 2000 umols from every angle. Can't wait to fire her up.
No one called you stupid. I said less smart like me or anyone who buys a panel as it keeps being said to not buy a commercial panel just by CXB's. Ok! Maybe you didn't say that but your tone sounds argumentative & I'm not sure over what. We all agree CXB's are great. Does that mean anyone not DIY or buying them to be made is dumb. Cause that's how you come off. Just abrasive. My bad if I offended you. Sure you're a real fart smella I mean smart fella. Common man, lighten up. Most folks use Google too.
Thats pretty innovative...reminds me of a verticle spyder or something,I just wonder aboit the diodes,they talk alot about lumens.But we know lumens arent the whole story.Kinda spendy too.Just got my SunCloak 4416 in the mail. Setting it up. This thing is mega cool, I must say. This guys on to something big with the Cloak design. Simple but genius. I'll show you guys once it's up. Bad Ass!!!
They attacked it because it is new & different. People are prob. Pretty surprised no one thought to build this sooner. Once people understand what goes into the build of one of these they'll better understand the price. Plus it puts out an easy 2 lbs. with only 600 watts. Say it pays for itself twice on the first run. We'll see. Thanks! I'll explain more later. Building the room. Peace!
Not sure what else less smart would be than more stupid.
Where can I find these lightsHey!
I was growing (vegging mostly) with two 300W (60x5W) Marshydros but I got VERY into LEDs and the tech behind it. THIS forum here is great, the knowledge and work by people like Realstyles or Supra and many others is so helpful!
So a few weeks back I decided I wanted a new light so I did some reading here and it didn't take long people that I decided on a DIY fixture with 4x CREE CXB3590 3500K CD and a Meanwell 240W 1750mA driver. Since I am very into PC building and modding, the DIY wouldn't have caused me any "problems" but I was hesitant drilling/tapping because I never did this before.
So ultimately I decided that I let the light build by someone rather than DIY myself. So I got the chips, and lenses from Jerry and the driver from mouser and the guy(s) from todogrowled.es assembled it for me. (Not related to them, but he did an awesome job). I am SO proud of this new light, especially the lenses make the light look very "professional"
I might at a later time, should I decide to expand my grow area recycle my old 300W Marshydros and put some COBs in it, just for fun and out of curiosity.
By the way I am usually flowering outdoors, up on the roof. I live in southern Spain and thankfully there is sun, sun and even more fricking sun. But right now in winter I have some Autos in the tent/greenhouse as a "test" to see how they'll do flowering under LED.
I am watching the plants now closely every day, I grow also peppers and herbs and stuff, how the plants will do with the new lights. The peppers and herbs in the meantime I moved somewhat away from the light since I learned that peppers need a max. 350 PPFD and herbs like Cilantro only 200-250PPFD. The light puts out about 650PPFD if I use up the entire 120x60cm (4x2'). So I might put the stuff closer together comes flowering time to get closer to 800-1000PPFD.
(This would be another topic re: lenses / reflectors. I see there is somewhat a decrease in brightness all the way to the left and right at the sides, to the wall, say the first 20cm from on each side. This is easily explained because further inward in the room, due to how the light spreads, in particular with the 80 deg lenses, the light "combines", like so:
Which obviously means that all the way to the left/right it's not as bright as in the middle where some beams combine.
Which also means that any number, say like lumens/PPFD should always be taken with a grain of salt, they are theoretical but in practice things might look different due to many different factors, ONE of them the shape/arrangement of your fixture etc.
Cheers
I just bought one. I'm recording my experience with it now on another forum. I'll try to catch up on my work & start a thread here to as here is where I learned the most on LED lighting. My plants in it are O.C. (Out of control)GG#4. I have Data sheets & answers to the questions poeple seek. Yeah, I asked many a questions prior to my purchase. So far I like it allot. About to start flower in 4 days or so. The Diodes Luminous efficiency is 160/watt. 8 MeanWell drivers. All components are accessible to see in this light. Owner answered all my questions with transperancy. So far it's treating me well.
how do you know that? You JUST got the unit
