California Lightworks 550 control

[MrTwist1]

Have it sent to someone in the states and then have them send it to you with a declared value of like 20 bucks. Problem solved.
I have crated and shipped $6,500 ATVs to Europe as tax exempt farm equipment. Im sure you can figure out how to get a light.

I already have perfectly good working lights dude. Buying expensive (and heavy) new lights, shipping them at significant cost, and figuring out a way to beat customs charges... all just so that I can use a specific lighting controller definitely seems like a false economy to me. I will not be doing that anytime soon

 

[Kevin the Great]

I already have perfectly good working lights dude. Buying expensive (and heavy) new lights, shipping them at significant cost, and figuring out a way to beat customs charges... all just so that I can use a specific lighting controller definitely seems like a false economy to me. I will not be doing that anytime soon

Right on, im just saying that its easier to beat customs than most people think.

 

[BM9AGS]

I agree. with my CLW SS550 covering over 3'x4' each and only being 400W it seems to be doing damn well. I'm thinking next grow should be a better all around CLW ss550 vs CXB 3590 comparison. but so far they're appearing equal.....time will tell

 

[MrTwist1]

Right on, im just saying that its easier to beat customs than most people think.

Point taken. I do sometimes ask suppliers to "cook" the invoice for me, but there is a limit to how far you can go with this without getting caught out. Sometimes the customs officials in this country actually go online to check the value of items and they can use their own valuation for charging instead of the value quoted on the invoice.

In fairness the California Lightworks do look good and they were always on my list of fixtures that I would buy if my circumstances were different.

 

[Kevin the Great]

sunrise/sunset = high red/IR
high noon = blue

Youre right, ill rewrite the programs later today to reflect this. My light isnt up yet, just dialing in the controller before getting rolling.

 

[pooka47401]

I already have perfectly good working lights dude. Buying expensive (and heavy) new lights, shipping them at significant cost, and figuring out a way to beat customs charges... all just so that I can use a specific lighting controller definitely seems like a false economy to me. I will not be doing that anytime soon

I just bought the 550 and did not buy the controller. I really wanted to but money honey. As soon as I replace the money I just spent I will buy the controller. I figured that the basic light was designed first and the controller was a refinement. So I will get refined later. It was heavier than I expected so your shipping would be high....

 

[Kevin the Great]

I just bought the 550 and did not buy the controller. I really wanted to but money honey. As soon as I replace the money I just spent I will buy the controller. I figured that the basic light was designed first and the controller was a refinement. So I will get refined later. It was heavier than I expected so your shipping would be high....

Out of curiosity, how much did you pay?

 

[BM9AGS]

I just bought the 550 and did not buy the controller. I really wanted to but money honey. As soon as I replace the money I just spent I will buy the controller. I figured that the basic light was designed first and the controller was a refinement. So I will get refined later. It was heavier than I expected so your shipping would be high....

That's cool man. Congrats. Feel free to post a pic of your setup in my CLW ss550 grow thread

 

[ReddEyez]

Im in a 30x36 area, 7.5 square feet. So, i need it to be turned down.
I have step 1 40/50/60
step 2 45 minutes later 60/70/70
step 3 2 hours later 99/60/50
step 4 3 hours later 70/70/70
step 5 an hour and 45 minutes later 60/70/80
step 6 3 and a half hours later 55/60/90 and fade to nothing an hour later.
I had tried to mimic sunrise and sunset with multiple banks of lights and separate timers before but this makes it totally streamlined. Running at 99/99/99 doesn't really give you much room for spectrum experiments...
Are you at least using the ramp up timer or just zero to 100?

Here you go man, this might help. Malocan took some spectrum readings at different times of the day.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/spectral-lightmeter-gigahertz-optik-msc15.913239/page-10

 

[pooka47401]

Out of curiosity, how much did you pay?

I paid $750. I did Price Waiter on line and got $50 off. They turned down my first offer. Ordered from Hydrobuilder. The Controller is abt $200.

 

[pooka47401]

I am still trying to figure out how far away to put the light. In Veg. Seedlings are at 9th node. At least the first that were planted are that tall. Their sisters, who did not get put into cups from my sprouting planter until a week later, are at 6 nodes. I am trying them under the LED. And my two plants of a new species, also sisters of the rest, are short and umbrella succulent like.

 

[CobKits]

...thinking about it now, it seems like it should be possible to cheaply build a breakout cable that has RJ-11 on one end and bare wires on the other end so that this unit could be used to control HLGs for example.

connection is not your issue, its all custom protocol, you'd have to reverse engineer it. possible, but if youre gonna go that far its just as easy to program your own interface.

 

[CryBby247]

They sellin controllers without schedules!!!how the hell ya supposed to know what settings work best.
my ecosunkite has red and blue plus white and it just goes on and off with a timer I set it at 12 12

 

[Kevin the Great]

You can totally do that with this controller, and soooooo much more.
Im actually part of a test group that got earlier versions of the controller. The version that goes into production will be slightly different and may come with schedules preloaded.

 

[CryBby247]

You can totally do that with this controller, and soooooo much more.
Im actually part of a test group that got earlier versions of the controller. The version that goes into production will be slightly different and may come with schedules preloaded.

That's good because there must be a billion different combinations it would drive me nutszoid!!

 

[Kevin the Great]

That's good because there must be a billion different combinations it would drive me nutszoid!!

Quick calculations bring up 1,180,000,000 different combinations.