Has anyone done a DIY light with Samsungs new SL-B8R5C9H2WW horticulture lights

[Jesusgrowsmygrass]

Hello all, I am thinking about building my next light and am looking hard at the samsung strips that came out recently and was wondering if anyone had any experience with them.

 

[GBAUTO]

Might be useful for veg lighting.

 

[Rocket Soul]

I dont know of anyone. The spectrum looks a bit off for flowering, its based around 5600k + 660 iirc. It might need a bit of far red to balance all that 660nm maybe mixing them with other warmer white strips or 90 cri bridgelux.

 

[captainmorgan]

The RW-150's were 100 watts of 5600k and 50 watts of 630nm and performed quite well for the time.

 

[ANC]

I did read a review by someone who did a grow with them recently, the response was severely underwhelmed.

 

[Rocket Soul]

I did read a review by someone who did a grow with them recently, the response was severely underwhelmed.

The sammies or the rw150?

 

[zypheruk]

Use samsungs 301b white 3k and add some red strips on their own driver. Works well.

 

[ANC]

samsung horti strips, they are pretty expensive too.

I tried to explain the red light thing to my wife today... she's a non-scientist.
She looked at me perplexed and said questioningly, but your lights work fine...

 

[BuddyColas]

samsung horti strips, they are pretty expensive too.

I tried to explain the red light thing to my wife today... she's a non-scientist.
She looked at me perplexed and said questioningly, but your lights work fine...

Most here like to endlessly adjust, tune, tweak spectrum, etc....but it's hard to argue with simple logic like that!

 

[captainmorgan]

samsung horti strips, they are pretty expensive too.

I tried to explain the red light thing to my wife today... she's a non-scientist.
She looked at me perplexed and said questioningly, but your lights work fine...

Didn't have a come back for that did you lol.

 

[ANC]

More often than not my problem is the fucking things grow faster than I like.
This last run I had to tie bitches down sideways again, and it is not because of long nodes.
Realy a pain when you are running seed and have to wait for them to mature.
The only times the growth is a little slower is over winter... but they still grow well and healthy. I'have a largish grow room (compared to the canopy size), and it has no ceiling insulation and concrete floor and brick walls, so I'm not going to run a heater. I'm not growing at a commercial scale.