Selling used, older tech grow lights: Is it even worth it?

tstick

tstick

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I'm cleaning out my attic. I have a bunch of older grow lights that go back to ~2012. Some have the old 3-watt Cree red and white LEDs and some have the COB tech. They have fans. I was looking at Ebay to see if people list them. Mostly, I saw really inexpensive, brand-new lights with newer technology, that are probably all better than my used stuff. Beyond throwing it all away or donating it to Good Will, etc., I was just curious if it would even be worth it to try and sell any of it. Shipping, alone, is likely more than the value of the lights....and then Ebay takes their cut....I'm tired of storing the lights because I know I won't ever use them again.

Ideas?
 
MtRainDog

MtRainDog

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tstick said:
I'm cleaning out my attic. I have a bunch of older grow lights that go back to ~2012. Some have the old 3-watt Cree red and white LEDs and some have the COB tech. They have fans. I was looking at Ebay to see if people list them. Mostly, I saw really inexpensive, brand-new lights with newer technology, that are probably all better than my used stuff. Beyond throwing it all away or donating it to Good Will, etc., I was just curious if it would even be worth it to try and sell any of it. Shipping, alone, is likely more than the value of the lights....and then Ebay takes their cut....I'm tired of storing the lights because I know I won't ever use them again.

Ideas?
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Most areas have Facebook groups for selling things locally, might be your best bet.
 
tstick

tstick

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MtRainDog said:
Most areas have Facebook groups for selling things locally, might be your best bet.
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I'm not part of the FB society so I'd have to join and get familiar with all of it....probably not going to happen, but thanks all the same.
 
chuckeye

chuckeye

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I recently purchased a new LED and even though I am on a tight budget I did not consider used simply because I would have no idea how much life is left in them.

And the technology has come a long way in the past few years...

I have a 42" parabolic reflector, a gull wing reflector and two newer bulbs - MH/HPS that will be retired to the dump, sigh...

Sad to say but they have paid their way !

Cheers
 
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1212ham

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tstick said:
I'm cleaning out my attic. I have a bunch of older grow lights that go back to ~2012. Some have the old 3-watt Cree red and white LEDs and some have the COB tech. They have fans. I was looking at Ebay to see if people list them. Mostly, I saw really inexpensive, brand-new lights with newer technology, that are probably all better than my used stuff. Beyond throwing it all away or donating it to Good Will, etc., I was just curious if it would even be worth it to try and sell any of it. Shipping, alone, is likely more than the value of the lights....and then Ebay takes their cut....I'm tired of storing the lights because I know I won't ever use them again.

Ideas?
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Old blurples are often used for seedlings and white lights can be used in a shop or garage etc.
 
medidedicated

medidedicated

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I sold all my unneeded stuff on local platform of anykind. Same here didnt want to do the shipping or ebay. Took a few months but its all gone. People will buy dirt cheap stuff it was more a blessing to them but if that interests ya.
 
medidedicated

medidedicated

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Idk if you meant like actual led chips that need to be bought with other things to diy a light but even that someone might budge. If its plug and play forget about it, someone will want it.
 
Moflow

Moflow

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Rocket Soul said:
If you take the old lights apart and strip out the pcbs blurples can easily be made into supplementary on low power to be used along with something more modern. @Moflow has atleast something in his setup like this
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A couple of bare purple pcb's at 50 watts a piece on the original drivers, even made one to run on just the red channels, 620 - 720nm as a red booster. They were platinum leds, remember them lol
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1212ham

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Rocket Soul said:
Nice thing about that is that you get a very full wode coverage of reds, not only 660
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And they are being used rather than going into a landfill. :cool:

I've never thrown out a grow light, they get reporposed.

The back panel and backlight LEDs of my old TV light my garage. They are very blue/high color temperature so they might end up in the tent to stop strech. BTW, the diodes have very interesting dispersion lenses, about 5/8" or 15mm diameter. There were also three interesting filter films behind the glass.
 
hillbill

hillbill

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Some of my older LED panels with mostly discrete Red/Blue diodes used very inefficient diodes, even the “Big Name” stuff. Better, more efficient diodes are widely available now, even cheap board lights are so much better.
 
waytoofaded

waytoofaded

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I've been watching the second-hand market and no one is buying these old lights unless they're $10 a piece. I've seen ads up for a year now, older cob lights people want $30-$40 for.
 
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