Ive been wanting to post about these phosphor coated red chips that cutter has opted for their 5050 strips:
https://www.cutter.com.au/product/sol-strip-5050-br/
I had a few made custom and Mark
@welight stocked a few: its their BR solstrips 5050 design with 3 channels: one with cree j-series 5050 with 3500k, 48 diodes 4-5 w each. But im likely not driving them harder than 1.5w.
Next one with 5050 phosphor coated 660nm red. 48 diodes. Similar to 660 red but the output is much wider all the way into far red, and good levels at 680-700nm aswell. Ive been wanting to play with this kinda spectrum for ages and i jumped at the opportunity. Dont know too much about these chips. Supposed to be 2.89 ppf/w at .65W but id prefer if Mark
@welight could jump in on the info on these, most importantly max drive current, cause apparently he got them custom made.
The third channel is wide blue: 4 x 400nm, 4x 450 nm and 4x 470 nm.
So it gives you something similar to a Chilled board but in a strip form with very high theoretical wattage and efficiency if you run it softer, at only 80ish AU$, or about 52€ or 59 Us$. To anyone who ever wanted to do red, blue or UV supplementation this feels like a no-brainer to me. Especially since Mark tends to give free shipping on +500AU$ orders.
I got 6 of them on order and im going to pair this with some infra red strips i also got from cutter and maybe some more white light and see how we do.
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