Pictures of your DIY lights - Post your pics!!!

[Evil-Mobo]

I will be putting more in there, I have a 2x4x5veg tent with a mars300, I only had this 3x3x6 and roleandro since august. I grow in 5 gal DWC, mainlined to 8 colas. I have a 2 week old Northern Lights vegging now, next is a white widow that i will plant early january

Is the NL from Nirvana too? If it is it's fire smoke. I will be popping more next run.

Here was mine:

 

[Organic Miner]

My LED grow room up and running after a few months. I've even made a video too

That is freaking awesome! I want a room like that!!! Great job and inspiration. Can you elaborate on your custom s/w?

 

[Participant]

Is the NL from Nirvana too? If it is it's fire smoke. I will be popping more next run.

Here was mine:
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its "00 seeds" NL i got 5 pack from seedsman black friday sale along with 3 WW and an original skunk #1

Hope she turns out as nice as yours

 

[Evil-Mobo]

its "00 seeds" NL i got 5 pack from seedsman black friday sale along with 3 WW and an original skunk #1

Hope she turns out as nice as yours

Looking at your Blackjack I will say your will look as good or better Good luck and thanks for responding.

 

[PDX Joe]

4 x CXB3590 @ 1750 mA, 3500k. It's working well for me. The grow closet is 3' x 3' x 5.5'.

 

[goofy81]

4 x CXB3590 @ 1750 mA, 3500k. It's working well for me. The grow closet is 3' x 3' x 5.5'.

That looks great!!
I reckon like I have, you're going to have the urge to take those diffusers off for that extra bit of light ~
I also had gnats go in and die on inside of the diffuser in my veg area.

 

[goofy81]

Because I was so anxious, I screwed up. Remember to get the wires right on your pots. I used the wrong two and ended up with clockwise dim - and anti clockwise for brighter. Also unless the pot is a true 100k anything less and it's not going to give you 100% .
Luckily I left room for a dim on off switch

 

[Danielson999]

Also unless the pot is a true 100k anything less and it's not going to give you 100% .

That's only if you're running one driver per potentiometer.

 

[DonBrennon]

Not totally DIY, but a nice little Mars Hydro hack, IMHO. Pulls 208w at the wall and should be good enough for keeping plants ticking along and early vegging. Time will tell I suppose.

2nd hand Mars hydro = £60
8 x CLU048's = £64

I already had the rest of the materials required on hand and the conversion took about 3 hours, would've been quicker if I'd had some small self tappers


EDIT...........Its runnin much cooler than when it had all the mono's on it, which I was worried about, but I've defo got a little extra capacity on the drivers. I may add either a smaller cob to each driver, or a small cluster of mono's

 

[cdgmoney250]

Super Clean!

 

[Organic Miner]

View attachment 3859626Because I was so anxious, I screwed up. Remember to get the wires right on your pots. I used the wrong two and ended up with clockwise dim - and anti clockwise for brighter. Also unless the pot is a true 100k anything less and it's not going to give you 100% .
Luckily I left room for a dim on off switch

Nice control room! I like it!

 

[Castaman]

 

[PicklesRus]

I really like these Manual Reset Temperature Switches.....
Once it gets too hot, stays off until you reset or check the circuit.....that's why I won't ever use those Temp switches you have....liked them initially, but they can come back ON and that is a no no in circuit building imho....they won't stop a fire....

What is the part number for these?

 

[PicklesRus]

75 Celsius cut-off.....might be too high......probably is but might be really good for mid to high cob vF @ [75-150+ watts]
http://www.ebay.com/itm/250V-10A-NC-75C-Manual-Reset-Temperature-Switch-Thermostat-KSD301-2-Pcs-/321243616254?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4acb9c93fe
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Nevermind!

 

[PicklesRus]

My new CXA 3070 2х2 fixture /1.5A, almost done.
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What kind of drivers are those

 

[PicklesRus]

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~250 umol/s

What boards are those? Where do you get them?

 

[Stephenj37826]

View attachment 3859626Because I was so anxious, I screwed up. Remember to get the wires right on your pots. I used the wrong two and ended up with clockwise dim - and anti clockwise for brighter. Also unless the pot is a true 100k anything less and it's not going to give you 100% .
Luckily I left room for a dim on off switch

Put a resistor inline with the pot.....

 

[PicklesRus]

My first actual DIY led finished.
Inspired by @brahbbyB 's Bridgelux EB Series Build thread, I ordered some parts and within a few days it was built - it all happened so fast I'm pretty proud of it.

The strips were shipped bent like a flexi strip, so digikey is replacing all the strips no charge and I get to keep these - it looks like they still work mostly

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Arranged for experimental growth testing.

You can see where three of the 8led strings don't light

 

[PetFlora]

View attachment 3865491 View attachment 3865492 View attachment 3865493 View attachment 3865494 View attachment 3865495 My first actual DIY led finished.
Inspired by @brahbbyB 's Bridgelux EB Series Build thread, I ordered some parts and within a few days it was built - it all happened so fast I'm pretty proud of it.

The strips were shipped bent like a flexi strip, so digikey is replacing all the strips no charge and I get to keep these - it looks like they still work mostly

3000k
4000k
5000k
5700k

Arranged for experimental growth testing.

You can see where three of the 8led strings don't light

I did something similar a couple years back using 4 each @ 22w 5000/3000k t8 led tubes to cover 2 x 4. It worked pretty well

I would tighten them up (closer together by at least half)

 

[Tim Fox]

Not DIY, made by @Rahz/TastyLED, but he DIH. Only using 241w for the entire closet. 2 weeks 3 days in flower. Lemon Garlic OG by HSO on the left, Colorado Thunder Fuck by RM3 on the right.

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the Home depot buckets strike again