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    Wollastonite as a soil amendment?

    Wow! Great feedback and results from your wollastonite grow :bigjoint: Yes, the Silicon from the wollastonite is leaching from the growing medium so I would top dress at 2 months, and here's why I think that ... Dissolution of Silicon from Soilless Substrates and Additives (Opens a PDF research...
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    Wollastonite as a soil amendment?

    Sorry, didn't directly answer the question. Mixed in once when blending the soil. Good luck! Saw some on eBay: Wollastonite-calcium Silicate -vansil W -20 __2 Lb Maybe let us know how it goes, too?
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    Wollastonite as a soil amendment?

    It is added to the soil and then releases over days time.
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    DiY LEDs - How to Power Them

    You want to convert solar panel DC current to AC using a micro-inverter. Youtube series on a unit which claims it can plug into your household US 120volt. Plugging Solar Panels Directly Into An Outlet | Surprising Results
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    LM301H vs LM301H-EVO

    This is the study using EVOs to which Samsung refers. But it's lettuce :|:| Effects of White LED Lighting with Specific Shorter Blue and/or Green Wavelength on the Growth and Quality of Two Lettuce Cultivars in a Vertical Farming System From conclusion, "At the same electrical power, the new...
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    Elevate Your Grow Game with the New Arrival Spider Farmer SF1000 EVO!

    I am very interested in learning more! Are both the 3000k and 5000k Samsung LM301H EVO diodes? What type of diodes do you use for 660nm and 720nm? Can you list the diode mix, i.e. quantity of each diode on the board?
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    LED diode expert?

    Wow! Thanks for sharing all this knowledge Prawn Connery!
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    LED diode expert?

    To clarify, here I meant the series replaced by parallel strings, like this:
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    LED diode expert?

    On this light the EE said that the power to the series would be uneven. And that the diode intensity in Series 2 might be different from that on Series 7. And this was because all the series draw off of that one green-tinted positive pad. Could this be a thing? I don't know much about...
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    LED diode expert?

    I'm going to ask, thanks!
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    LED diode expert?

    I have a discussion going with an EE about the PCB design of this light. He says the design is inherently poor because it is using unregulated series of diodes. He claims that, because each series is unregulated, the diodes will be difference light intensity. He introduced the idea of 25% loss...
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    Is this LED light in series or parallel or both?

    Is it a mix of both? I think I've noted 13 series circuits here, all feeding from the one big positive pad (see green overlay). If this is the case, how does the power get equally distributed to each of the 13 series circuits? Please be kind :) I have a limited idea of electronics. I believe...
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    2023 Plant Zone Maps from USDA

    https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/ Here's a closeup of Massachusetts.
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    2023 Massachusetts Outdoor Growers

    These are incredible! I'm blown away these are here in Massachusetts, especially with the wet summer. You wrote "1:3 peroxide spray every couple of days" for problems. I was wondering if you used anything else?
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    The Best Deals Thread. Post Best Deals And Lowest Prices Links

    40% off. Buy two? 30% off this one.
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    How does LED PWM dimming work?

    I also came across this technical note (https://www.upowertek.com/what-is-pwm-dimming/) about Fake PWM Dimming, which I think is what I'm getting confused about. Would this still be constant current?
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    How does LED PWM dimming work?

    How does dimming work on an LED panel? Does the power supply voltage drop like analog incandescents? Or does the supply get chopped up like I've read with PWM? I'm interested in constant current output but PWM adjusted duty cycle coming out of a power driver. Is this even such a thing and who...
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    Does smoking weed daily increase hair loss?

    What are you talking about? Where did this come from? :confused: Very funny.
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    3.19 umol/j

    Just to clarify. The mint white diodes are a specialty LED, not a complete spectrum. Here's a graph where you can see the Samsung EVO mint white diode in blue and the EVO 5000K in black. The mint white spectrum is different, but it is not really complete. I think you were referring to the...
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