LED strip Lords. I need your guidance.

Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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Can any of y'all give me the part#s to the CHEAPEST 4' Strips available? I would have used the 2' arrow strips for $4.90 but or course, they've jumped back up to $26. Ya snooze ya loose I guess.
I just have to e thoughts about inter canopy lighting to get the buds more light. 2' strips might actually be best honestly to use per site of the 8 bucket RDwC. But let me know if you have the cheapest strips part #s.

Thanks guys!
 
Gond00s

Gond00s

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Two 2ft bxebs what u would do I’ll get the part number but I think the price of the new ones are a bit
 
Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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Well I have a spare 185H-C1400B just lying around so that's be nice to use. Otherwise I guess I could just use some cheap Amazon 4ft led T8 tubes and bullet connect the pins right to a plug. That might be easier
 
HamNEggs

HamNEggs

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I had some of those sammys in the cart last week when they were 5 bucks. kicking myself for not getting them. Now I check those every day. Way too good a deal at 5 bucks if not the most efficient.
 
lukio

lukio

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HamNEggs said:
I had some of those sammys in the cart last week when they were 5 bucks. kicking myself for not getting them. Now I check those every day. Way too good a deal at 5 bucks if not the most efficient.
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ah damn...seems a great deal. Struggling to think of a better way of spending 5 bucks...

ive been slacking on the Bodhi front...ive got some catchin up to do....
 
Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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I'll be honest, I don't think we'll see those prices come down again anytime soon. Summers here which means more orders coming in for contractors to jbstall them into buildings. Come fall though, maybe.
 
lukio

lukio

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yeah those led fitters are notorious for going HAM during corona season.

as soon as i buy something else they'll drop in price...you watch.
 
XtraGood

XtraGood

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Watching this for ideas. I'm looking for something competitive or better than the bridgelux eb gen 2s to try, I've got a bunch of gen2s in 3k and 3.5k they're working well so far.
 
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Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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XtraGood said:
Watching this for ideas. I'm looking for something competiive or better than the bridgelux eb gen 2s to try, I've got a bunch of gen2s in 3k and 3.5k they're working well so far.
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For your main lighting or supplemental inner/side/under lighting?
Because there's a pretty long list of better diodes available right now.
 
XtraGood

XtraGood

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What strips are those diodes on? I've had it in the back of my mind that I'll want to go looking for CRI 90+ strips fairly soon but haven't done much looking or keeping up the last few months. I've got a mix of QB96s and blux gen 2s for the bulk of my lighting. Some plants mostly blux some mostly qb96. Lots of small fixtures from a ceiling grid. I haven't gotten into side inner under lighting, but some of my lights do angle in from the sides of plants a bit on their hangers.

I'm looking for strips that are cheap enough or heat efficient enough that I don't need to put heat sinks on them. For the time and cost of adding heat sinks it is awful easy to drill a few extra holes and add more blux strips. I'd read a bit and thought they were fairly efficient as well, I'm no expert though.

I have been using the 2' versions but could make 4' strips into fixtures easy enough.
 
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Diddy147

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Cutter is fantastic and when i ordered from UK it was here in less than 2 weeks. One negative is the customs/import fees were high. Think it added over 50% onto the total in my case. Not cutters fault in any way, but don't see a way round it either....unless we get a trade deal with Aus.....Something tells me the world is a bit busy to be doing other deals at this point in time though.
 
XtraGood

XtraGood

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I'll take a look. I don't know why I didn't buy some of those Samsungs at ~5$ each, had some in the cart at one point.

I'm trying to figure out how lm/w gets affects by cri as far as growing efficiency is concerned since I'm thinking about it, getting nowhere fast.

Interested to see what gets on the list.
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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Diddy147 said:
Cutter is fantastic and when i ordered from UK it was here in less than 2 weeks. One negative is the customs/import fees were high. Think it added over 50% onto the total in my case. Not cutters fault in any way, but don't see a way round it either....unless we get a trade deal with Aus.....Something tells me the world is a bit busy to be doing other deals at this point in time though.
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Import should be 20% in UK but its based on the total price of the invoice including shipping and then there might be a service charge for "handling" by the delivery company , so on a small order it may well make it substantially more expensive.

Some companies will reduce the invoice value if asked which means less charges.
Though if customs thinks something is undervalued they can reassess it and if they think your taking the piss they will overvalue it.
 
Gond00s

Gond00s

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Cutter can be hit or miss doe most of the time their decent but I don’t care about their solder joints to their boards that’s the only reason I like the bxebs especially now
 
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