ChilLED Growcraft 40in Light Bar Test Report – 350mA

[Humple]

Well, at least they finally jumped on the strip train.

 

[Grow Lights Australia]

Can anyybody explain why they would use so many 5k leds, apart from to make the numbers look better?

Bump the umol/j and increase the amount of cyan when blended with 2700/3000K. You end up with a very efficient, reasonably smooth spectrum with plenty of blue to offset any possible stretch (shade avoidance) caused by having so much red. That would be my guess. It also looks like a blend of CRI70 and 80, but I could be wrong. There's no arguing it's an efficient spectrum.

 

[Airwalker16]

I'm still kicking rocks waiting on blux strips

Teknik promised a gonio run on them too, should be good

You know hes banned here right?

 

[Prawn Connery]

You know hes banned here right?

He posts on other boards.

 

[hybridway2]

I like it because i could build my square bar light with it & the connection boards as well as the extrusions. I like the 3/5k/660 blend but damn, they went the other way with IR. Nothing. No attempts at anything under 450 when they were all about that at one point.
I'd like to see them implement their other techs spectrum to this. As of now its just another bar light, no?
They could kill it based on what they know. I expected more from ChilLed spectrum wise.
Will still kick ass & awesome DIY.

 

[diyled]

I expected more from ChilLed

Me too.

 

[hybridway2]

Did it sat 3.24 umol/j?

 

[diggs99]

You know hes banned here right?

Only here, many of us are on another forum where he posts frequently. Hes also a mod at ledgardener

I know he got off on the wrong foot here, but the dude is insanely smart and has his finger on the pulse of the LED world imo. Hes also just a good dude, nothing but helpful.

My new strips are customized using his special blues added to the 2700k jseries from Cutter. I wanted the Prawn spectrum but in strips rather than boards, TEKNIK went out his way to do all the heavy lifting and set everything up for me. Hopefully the new strips are a winner, like Prawns boards.

 

[Rocket Soul]

Only here, many of us are on another forum where he posts frequently. Hes also a mod at ledgardener

I know he got off on the wrong foot here, but the dude is insanely smart and has his finger on the pulse of the LED world imo. Hes also just a good dude, nothing but helpful.

My new strips are customized using his special blues added to the 2700k jseries from Cutter. I wanted the Prawn spectrum but in strips rather than boards, TEKNIK went out his way to do all the heavy lifting and set everything up for me. Hopefully the new strips are a winner, like Prawns boards.

When is your build with these strips to happen? Looking forward to it.

 

[diggs99]

When is your build with these strips to happen? Looking forward to it.

Ill be building them Soon, im just waiting on some new extrusions for framing from Tnutz, other than that i have everything else here already.

So hopefully within the next couple weeks ill get around to building them. I just flipped my room 10 days ago, ill be keeping the existing lights hung in the room until the crop is finished. So not in a huge hurry.

 

[Airwalker16]

Only here, many of us are on another forum where he posts frequently. Hes also a mod at ledgardener

I know he got off on the wrong foot here, but the dude is insanely smart and has his finger on the pulse of the LED world imo. Hes also just a good dude, nothing but helpful.

My new strips are customized using his special blues added to the 2700k jseries from Cutter. I wanted the Prawn spectrum but in strips rather than boards, TEKNIK went out his way to do all the heavy lifting and set everything up for me. Hopefully the new strips are a winner, like Prawns boards.

I couldn't agree more. Never once said it or even remotely meant to say otherwise. I agree, the guys damn near genius status and has nothing but helpful information to add. Yet, it comes with a Lil attitude, that I wish so bad the Mods HERE would give just one more shot to.

 

[diggs99]

I couldn't agree more. Never once said it or even remotely meant to say otherwise. I agree, the guys damn near genius status and has nothing but helpful information to add. Yet, it comes with a Lil attitude, that I wish so bad the Mods HERE would give just one more shot to.

Ya hes a straight shooter for sure, he dont sugarcoat much lol.

i dont think it matters anymore, that ship has sailed as far as i know. I dont think he would come back now anyway to be honest. Who knows tho

 

[Airwalker16]

I got a big, fat ol' hunch that the next advancement in the DIY world's works, is T-Slot extrusions. Its become very apparent the supply has become much, much more abundant and these different sized profiles, are all readily available now and just proving to be the next highly marketed thing.
Pre built frames that can be dis/assembled to easily accommodate any space from a 1X1-6x6. They'd sell.... If only I had some fucking capitol.....

 

[Airwalker16]

Ya hes a straight shooter for sure, he dont sugarcoat much lol.

i dont think it matters anymore, that ship has sailed as far as i know. I dont think he would come back now anyway to be honest. Who knows tho

Plenty of great convos taking place here I don't think he'd mind being back a part of.

 

[diggs99]

I got a big, fat ol' hunch that the next advancement in the DIY world's works, is T-Slot extrusions. Its become very apparent the supply has become much, much more abundant and these different sized profiles, are all readily available now and just proving to be the next highly marketed thing.
Pre built frames that can be dis/assembled to easily accommodate any space from a 1X1-6x6. They'd sell.... If only I had some fucking capitol.....

if im not mistaken, i think Cutter is selling t slot sinks? also pretty sure i seen Greengene using something similar in his vids.

I agree with you for sure, it seems this will be the diy eventually.

 

[diggs99]

Plenty of great convos taking place here I don't think he'd mind being back a part of.

Oh no doubt, but theres also all the same people here that were tilting him to no end, they havent changed lol....it would only be a matter of time before he called them on their shit and all hell would break loose again lol

Plus the relationship between him and Sunni never ended very well.

 

[Airwalker16]

TBH, Cutters design for the "550" style fixtures is world's more appealing to me than any other. Cutter knew what was up when they used T Slot and individual heatsinks that are lower than the entire frame, can be adjusted, and are easily removed. I love the Form Factor on their model by far the most.

 

[Airwalker16]

Chilled have always been high tier upper echelon products. I feel like they also missed out. Main thing that I like is their heatsinks. They're cool. That's about it..
I'm really surprised that with their usually higher prices, they didn't actually go for the UV diodes and market them hard. With their Controller, you could do some cool Shit with ramping up and bringing down wattage over the 12 he light cycle.
This is one place that feature would actually be useful in the biggest way.

 

[Airwalker16]

But I'll tell ya, those trailor brackets that fellar used in that video @welight posted with a build using their Cutter strips with the controller documentation. That's about the most simple and good looking heatsink shape I've ever seen that's thatbeasy to source.

 

[welight]

TBH, Cutters design for the "550" style fixtures is world's more appealing to me than any other. Cutter knew what was up when they used T Slot and individual heatsinks that are lower than the entire frame, can be adjusted, and are easily removed. I love the Form Factor on their model by far the most.

Thanks Air, you might like this, delivered to a customer. New 224LPW Nichia HT, with G Bin XPG-3 G Bin Deep Red and and Mixed UVA all mounted to TSLOT

Cheers
Mark