DIY with Quantum Boards

ChaosHunter

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Anyone with DIY lamp and also using Hydropods or planning to use?

http://hydropods.com/product/environment-controller/

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Way to over the top in price for personal grows. These systems are geared for larger commercial grows. Outside of Audrino the household closet grower doesn't have much like this. Someone needs to come up with a plug and play like this for small hobby growers that's affordable and plug and play. Something like Eydn even.

There's a lot more hobby growers than commercial.
 

Budzbuddha

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Dang what about a driver with these specs down below? I'd like to put a QB board in a Mars 300. Are you going to be stocking 3k boards anytime soon?

Output: 60-120V
Current: 300mA
Max Wattage: 36W
You would be better gutting panel of everything except fans and fan driver , THEN buy the 90w kit from HLG when available. It is a ridiculously simple swap out. I cut the male ac connector from the old drivers and soldered to meanwell driver ( brown / Blue ) and added green wire with ring connector to ground bolt in panel casing.

POOF ..... Instant super light. I did it with a smaller driver initially and the damn thing was growing bud at 5 WATT/SQFT from my mars conversion.
Which is fucking insane.

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Budzbuddha

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Don't try this
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Cut board in half to test.
Anyone thinks we should increase or decrease the diode count on boards.
I would say a 36" - 40" STRIP Quantum Board would be a logical extension to your boards line. Perfect for side lighting , T5 " STYLE " rigs , in different kelvin ranges as with newest QBs. This would a PERFECT addon to a tent style grow with mounting options at tent corners for cross lighting.

There is a T5 swap already with leds ( cant remember the maker ) that uses the same style flouro tube connectors for easy change from floro to led. Just swap one for the other.
 

SaltyNuts

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Don't try this
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Cut board in half to test.
Anyone thinks we should increase or decrease the diode count on boards.
a board with double the density of diodes could be pretty neat. Something around max 300W - 400W. Useful for creating a bright source with less shadow footprint in a greenhouse.
(wishlist stuff... for greenhouse lighting the Luxeon SunPlus 35 purple diodes would be great on a densely populated board.) If you could have an independant lead of whites on the same board that would be sweet. This could be a DIY competitor to the new Sylvania greenhouse fixture.

 
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ttystikk

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So 4 boards with 240 1050ma would pull 600w ?
Would that be dimmable to 300?
When's the next batch set to arrive?

So these qb boards are the best in lighting at this point in time, I'd be better with these boards in an enclosed tent?
@ttystikk your knowledge and input?
My knowledge is application oriented; they are powerful lights that do a great job of putting a lot of PAR on target.

They don't get hot in the sense of traditional Mars Hydro style blurple, let alone any sort of HID.

Finally, I think the light distribution achieved by the large effective light emitting surface of the PCB is even more of a boon than is currently recognized.
 

ttystikk

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Expense might be an issue here?

Also, one of the reasons for rave reviews of quantum boards is the large effective light emitting surface. Each board's chip footprint is almost the size of a standard sheet of office paper! My concern for such boards is the temptation to use smaller boards to maintain affordability, which would limit this advantage.
 

Growmau5

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kicked off a build this weekend with the QBs. I got all of the metal fab/machining done. I'm damn tempted to have the mounting panel anodized, if I can find a company that won't rape me. $
Components:
6 x quantum boards 3000K :NGL @933ma
16 x Cree xp-g3 (3up) 4000k 90CRI top bins: Cutter, up to 1400ma capable (3up boards are around 9 vF)
24 x asst cree xpe , mostly the xpe HE 660nm (XPEEPR-L1-0000-00C01) tippy top flux bin
2 x 24 T5HO uvb from HTG supply
2 x hlg320h-c2800b (runs 3 boards in parallel @ 933ma per board)
1 x hlg185h-c1400b (for xpg3 which max at 2000ma)
other components TBD.
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