anyone on here wanna mentor me on building these QB

fragileassassin

fragileassassin

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Chip Green said:
That's the price, but what is the shipping cost? This is an actual question, never ordered from Ali.
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I paid $200 for shipping and $16 for duty fees on 16 boards with heatsinks, driver, dimmers, and power cords. It was in 2x 3x3x3 boxes and was at my door in 5 days.
You save more money the more you buy. An order like mine or the OPs would be would have massive savings still, but if youre only wanting to order 1-2 kits, the shipping will still be around $100
 
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fragileassassin said:
I spent around $1400 on his setup I use over a 6x10 area.
The prices I paid for meijiu board from alibaba at the time were slightly less than HLGv1 boards cost right now. (around $24 per board IIRC)
You want at least 30w per square foot. I would not attempt to light the whole 10x15 unless you can afford to put a minimum of 4500w over it.
At 140w each for the V1 boards, youd need at least 32 of them at $30 a piece. Plus heatsinks drivers frames ect.Another example would be the HLG kits. You need 17 260w kits at $350 each. A 260w china kit is just a little over $100 now.

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I saw this pic in another post China made QB maybe it was I was gonna message you on this but had to go out
 
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bulla said:
I saw this pic in another post China made QB maybe it was I was gonna message you on this but had to go out
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Feel free to shoot me a msg whenever. I dont consider myself an LED expert by any means, especially compared to some of the other knowledgeable people around here, but I know enough that I was comfortable dropping that kind of money on DIY boards. I almost doubled it, I had quotes done and was ready to place another meijiu order, but decided I didnt need that big of a setup for personal use and cut down to 6 sites instead.

My first and 2nd crops ever were both over 1g per watt dried. 3 and 3.5lbs out of 1300w. I opted for more boards at slightly less power run closer to the plants.
I have been very happy with my meijiu boards and going that route would save you thousands for the total wattage you need.

There seems to be a new discrepancy with what the diodes actually are on the HLG v1 boards that are going out right now, so im not sure I can even recommend those as a good budget option now.
 
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fragileassassin

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Chip Green said:
That's the price, but what is the shipping cost? This is an actual question, never ordered from Ali.
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fragileassassin said:
I paid $200 for shipping and $16 for duty fees on 16 boards with heatsinks, driver, dimmers, and power cords. It was in 2x 3x3x3 boxes and was at my door in 5 days.
You save more money the more you buy. An order like mine or the OPs would be would have massive savings still, but if youre only wanting to order 1-2 kits, the shipping will still be around $100
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I did forget to mention that my $1400 total was all in with everything all said and done with the lights hung in the tent.
Order total was just under 1k + 216 for shipping and duty then another roughly $200 for all of the wire, wagos, hangers, and frames I built.
 
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bulla said:
I really want someone that has made there own custom set up not a bought kit . someone that can u need this many cobs and this many diolds and this is the power supply and these are the serial numbers to order I want a custom board from scratch eventually built by me not one everyone else has ....i have a 10 x 15 foot room that's just one grow area all I here about is 2x2 or 3x3 some 4x4s
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I can help you with that. I built my own lighting rigs from scratch using componentry from digikey and mouser. quality gear from samsung and meanwell. not small rigs either, my last grow was 288oz dry. PM me if you want guidance.
 
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TheGreatSouthern said:
I can help you with that. I built my own lighting rigs from scratch using componentry from digikey and mouser. quality gear from samsung and meanwell. not small rigs either, my last grow was 288oz dry. PM me if you want guidance.
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sound like you have quite a setup, would enjoy seeing any pics of it you have if you dont mind sharing.
 
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fragileassassin said:
sound like you have quite a setup, would enjoy seeing any pics of it you have if you dont mind sharing.
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here's one room with 3 units. there are another 3 units like these and 3 more which are COBs. lights are 15 x samsung qb22a strips mounted on 25x25 aluminium extrusion wired in parallell driven by a meanwell hlg600h-48a. I only drive them at 12.3 amps which makes 568 watts. they stay cool to the touch with the circulation fans blowing across them. Room never goes over 24C even in summer.
 

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bulla said:
After talking to wife she agreed one on one maybe hard to get and that a QB kit modified would be better to start with ..she brought up the point hands on for doing one from scratch buying everything piece by piece would be very detailed and alotta work putting together...she reminded me even though I'm self employed and can make time for a one on one do I want all that work after rebuilding mobilehomes all day lol like she said that's a job straight to another job at night so I'm gonna just do a kit for now .thanks for bringing up that point
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I dont think this is a bad idea, so that you get a feel for it first. Thats what I did. Although HLG has a page with links to everything in the DIY kits on Amazon and you can save a few bucks. You are going to want to watch a youtube video or two either way when you setup the first one. After that you will be good to go and can do the next one in 20 mins. Plus dont be shy about asking questions. The more info gets documented on here the better off the next person is. If its any consolation I ask dumb questions about QBs every day and they havent chased me away yet lol!
 
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i'll be honest I saw a bunch of videos already and after the 3rd video I was like is this it ? its cake that's what made me wanna make one from scratch but I think buying a kit seeing if I really like it then maybe doing one from scratch ...i'm all pumped cause all I read is QB QB and more QB and how good they are i'm like i'm getting some and I really may not even like them lol so I need to slow down like the wife says or it may end up in a pile someplace like alotta other shit I thought I wanted that I really didn't ...the wife has always told me since she met me I have no moderation with buying stuff that I get into and when its played out I have a ton of money wrapped up and i'm on to my next kick lol
 
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here's one room with 3 units. there are another 3 units like these and 3 more which are COBs. lights are 15 x samsung qb22a strips mounted on 25x25 aluminium extrusion wired in parallell driven by a meanwell hlg600h-48a. I only drive them at 12.3 amps which makes 568 watts. they stay cool to the touch with the circulation fans blowing across them. Room never goes over 24C even in summer.
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that definitely looking nice so are you saying each of those lights are 568 watts ?
 
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