Nikolaj06
Active Member
Hello RIU!
I've been inactive for a while (moved to an apartment rather than a house) and couldn't really get growing. As a matter of fact a police(wo)man lives in the apartment across from me lol...
But to the real ordeal! I've had plans for a while to make a stealth growbox, with some DIY led arrangement (I love leds). I've already made one LED light, with high-end Osram GD+, Cree's and some random chinese led's. I just haven't gotten around to testing it yet because of above reasons, unfortunately.
But now I will stop lurking and whine and shit, and get to it!
My PC case is a normal old one (I just got it for less than 4$ yay!), I've just removed most of the inner workings, and will try to smooth everything as much as possible, and put in some Mylar in the sides (still have to get some though).
Now to the LED's, I'm going to use a total of 85 watts true power draw from 13 LED's, yes 13. And not just any LED's, I'm using 5 Cree XML bin T6 (highest) cold white run at 2A each (6 w) and 8 LEDengin LZ4 660 nm unknown Bins run at 670 mA each (nearly 7 w each).
All of the LED's are mounted on stars and will be directly glued (with thermal glue) on to the top of the PC case, which will act as a heat sink.
A problem I will most likely encounter is that the LED's will become to hot, since my heatsinking is not quite adequate.. My solution right now will probably be to attach some CPU coolers on the outside of the casetop with some thermal glue..
I think I will end it here, as I can't really think of any more to write
Any que/suggestions feel free to post. And I will update tomorrow with pics and progress!
Ohh and btw, I only have the Cree led's right now so I will use those only during the short veg, the LEDengin should be here next week
I've been inactive for a while (moved to an apartment rather than a house) and couldn't really get growing. As a matter of fact a police(wo)man lives in the apartment across from me lol...
But to the real ordeal! I've had plans for a while to make a stealth growbox, with some DIY led arrangement (I love leds). I've already made one LED light, with high-end Osram GD+, Cree's and some random chinese led's. I just haven't gotten around to testing it yet because of above reasons, unfortunately.
But now I will stop lurking and whine and shit, and get to it!
My PC case is a normal old one (I just got it for less than 4$ yay!), I've just removed most of the inner workings, and will try to smooth everything as much as possible, and put in some Mylar in the sides (still have to get some though).
Now to the LED's, I'm going to use a total of 85 watts true power draw from 13 LED's, yes 13. And not just any LED's, I'm using 5 Cree XML bin T6 (highest) cold white run at 2A each (6 w) and 8 LEDengin LZ4 660 nm unknown Bins run at 670 mA each (nearly 7 w each).
All of the LED's are mounted on stars and will be directly glued (with thermal glue) on to the top of the PC case, which will act as a heat sink.
A problem I will most likely encounter is that the LED's will become to hot, since my heatsinking is not quite adequate.. My solution right now will probably be to attach some CPU coolers on the outside of the casetop with some thermal glue..
I think I will end it here, as I can't really think of any more to write
Any que/suggestions feel free to post. And I will update tomorrow with pics and progress!
Ohh and btw, I only have the Cree led's right now so I will use those only during the short veg, the LEDengin should be here next week