Hi everyone,
Thank for helping me
First I agree XML WW in U2 bin is very suspicious I have always seen some S6 and T3 bin for 10$ the chip.
Then I had a little thought on this MKR:
I am in france, hence I can not import from many different suppliers otherwise the addition with huge shipping cost will b tremendous...
I looked at led.tech which seems to be interesting for us because the shipping is only 9$ and also steve led and cutter.
First these are the leds I could find : MKR WW bin G2 at 20$ on led tech and the same at cutter at 15,39$/ then come XTE R3 3000K at 3,5$ / XML2 3000K T5 at 9,89$
MKR put huge amount of lumen (let's not focus on spectrum as I will compare them with XML and XTE) but if we look closer at these led, their is a problem:
by going on the cree led site for comparaison, @700mA
I have MKR 106lum/W then consuming 8,5W
XTE 111lum/W consuming 2,2W
and XML2 143lum/W and 2,06W
I don't need to have the best led but the best efficacy/price/quality:
XTE are 1,6$/W MKR are at 1,8$/W on cutter and 2,35$/W on led tech XML2 are at 4,8$/W
Clearly XML2 are too expensive for just 30lumen/W more than XTE I can have much more lumen by adding more XTE and I will spread the light better.
Then MK-R are not as efficient as XTE and cost a bit more.
I will go with XTE so far...
If I was going in a comparison process like SUPRA I would take XML2 and other very efficient led to have the best efficiency possible and prove that 100W of led can easily beat 300W of HPS.
But I do not care about that... I just want some easy grow, with a great pannel, and having less difficulties with heat issues and fire safety. I fuck the gr/W ratio, I just want enough weed. I am sure you see what I mean
@Guod : I will look at LG, thank you, they do not seems very expensive.
Edit: so I looked quickly at it:
the spectrum in 3000K is about the same than cree, but maybe more blue than XTE
the efficiency is not as good, indeed it's less than 89lum/W @700mA...
the price is very low 1$/W so I can have approximately 1,6 of them for the price of XTE.
It's interesting but as we do not know the bin for the module you show me, the effiency can be less than 80lumen/W I prefer going with the cheap led from satisled I show at first.
Only a first quick feeling of course.
@petflora: Have you got a link of the 440-450nm supplementing led you found please? I am very interested in them if there price is low and efficiency good.