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Jonesfamily7715

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What is the mint green mammoth bars? Are those available aftermarket?
Those are built for they're lights at mammoth with Samsung lm301h Evo mint chips mixed In with other whites and reds, bunch o hype imo, I purposely avoid anything samsung but I'll check to see if any h influx or f series available. If interested in building a strip light those osram 3030 strips are probably as good a deal as I'll be able to find.
 

FmSwayze

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Those are built for they're lights at mammoth with Samsung lm301h Evo mint chips mixed In with other whites and reds, bunch o hype imo, I purposely avoid anything samsung but I'll check to see if any h influx or f series available. If interested in building a strip light those osram 3030 strips are probably as good a deal as I'll be able to find.
I'm really loving these qb96 color temp. Looking for a strip build about the same for my 2x4 that will have better coverage a cooler for summer. What about heatsinks? Do they sell clean well built hestsinks for the strips?
 

Jonesfamily7715

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What about these?
Those are horticulture strips fuck yeah they'll work but cost way to much for my liking, to only reasonable place to buy em I could find was digikey $33.00 each. If your willing to spend the money they will work and be easy to assemble. I run my 4, qb96 boards between 40-50 watts each all on 1 heatsink, I like they're spectrum, they work really well I got 2 @BobBitchen dancing lime under that light finna start flower now.
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I would personally buy white strips for cheap and add the reds in seperate, it's much cheaper that way, but i would understand the hesitation red diodes are expensive in small quantities and especially if theyre already mounted on mcpcb boards or stars, I like to solder them myself. Most companies that sell mcpcb will mount the diodes for you, for a price, I think I know a cheap place in USA but I gotta check first been some years since I contacted them
 

ttystikk

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The new energy products are worth looking at the part #'s don't always match the led manufacturers so it's difficult but worth it

Found some ir, Luminous and osram starboards
I bought some osram ir starboard for dirt cheap not far red but ir like 850nm and 930nm like $0.08 and $0.10 per star being that cheap I bought 200, 850nm and 100, 930nm there are still more available if anyone interested. I've seen very very few growlights with ir diodes this high NM. Has anyone seen the effects first hand if useless for a grow light I can use them for night vision with my security cameras



Funny you mentioned the infrared security camera; that's exactly where my head went lol
 

Rocket Soul

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Those are horticulture strips fuck yeah they'll work but cost way to much for my liking, to only reasonable place to buy em I could find was digikey $33.00 each. If your willing to spend the money they will work and be easy to assemble. I run my 4, qb96 boards between 40-50 watts each all on 1 heatsink, I like they're spectrum, they work really well I got 2 @BobBitchen dancing lime under that light finna start flower now.
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I would personally buy white strips for cheap and add the reds in seperate, it's much cheaper that way, but i would understand the hesitation red diodes are expensive in small quantities and especially if theyre already mounted on mcpcb boards or stars, I like to solder them myself. Most companies that sell mcpcb will mount the diodes for you, for a price, I think I know a cheap place in USA but I gotta check first been some years since I contacted them
Also if you add red separately youre not stuck with only 660, you can add whatever combo you like
 

Jonesfamily7715

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Knew something must be off: arrow said test at 1080mA. Thats more than respestable efficiency
Especially for 90cri, I bought all 24 of the 4000k 90cri for $1.50 each same deal. Looks to me like the New energy products sat on the shelf to long or going outta business, there are some really good deals floating around, you just gotta dig lol. It's nice to find a couple deals on osram products, it's like 90% of the shit I find are cree, there are a lot of cheap bridgelux stuff to, I just skip over stuff with to low efficiency. I bet they would sell more products if their was better information, like I didn't even know those strips were osram 3030 until I looked up the part # on Google and downloaded the datasheet.
 

Jonesfamily7715

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These strips are a fucking jackpot, there is a description under the part # that says neon rope, must be why Noone bought them $0.15 each osram diodes but I'm not sure which ones. 179 lm/w 3500k 80cri 48 diodes 14 watt typical



4000K 80cri


3000k 80cri


At this price you really can't lose
 
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Rocket Soul

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These strips are a fucking jackpot, there is a description under the part # that says neon rope, must be why Noone bought them $0.15 each osram diodes but I'm not sure which ones. 179 lm/w 3500k 80cri 48 diodes 14 watt typical



4000K 80cri


3000k 80cri


At this price you really can't lose
Though that may very well be another missprint; thats +0.25w per diode and seems like it may be a bit high lum/w. Still cheaper than anything ive seen, 3 diodes per cent!
 

Jonesfamily7715

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Though that may very well be another missprint; thats +0.25w per diode and seems like it may be a bit high lum/w. Still cheaper than anything ive seen, 3 diodes per cent!
I'm wondering which diodes are used I pulled the actual datasheet and can't figure it out, samsung strips datasheets are bad about this, not specifying which diodes are used. The strips I bought are 3030 osconiq 72 diodes per strip and 13 watts each. Those $0.15 strips are 48 diodes and 14 watts each, can't be the same diodes. The datasheet says 179 lm/watt I thought it seemed a little high as well. All 3 of those models are $0.15 each.
 

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Rocket Soul

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I quite like the 561c and still run som on fotop boards from meijiu.

The thing about these strips is that its hard to get high diode density: putting them side to side you could fit in about 8 strips in the space of 2 qbs, but thats just under 400 diodes. Still going to tag this to a friend.
 

cdgmoney250

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Are the specs right though? Im getting 60ish lum per watt?!? Theres gotta be some misstake somewhere or what?
That’s what I got as well, terrible efficiency compared to a lot of competitors…. But they are a screaming good deal price-wise. Didn’t see a data sheet available on Arrow though, so I’m curious what the spectrum looks like on paper?

Availability of just about any other name brand strip is seemingly becoming an issue lately.
 

Rocket Soul

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That’s what I got as well, terrible efficiency compared to a lot of competitors…. But they are a screaming good deal price-wise. Didn’t see a data sheet available on Arrow though, so I’m curious what the spectrum looks like on paper?

Availability of just about any other name brand strip is seemingly becoming an issue lately.
They are 170ish lum/w at 380mA as per the datasheet, messy details i arrow (they quoted lums at 380 as being for 1080mA).
That means around 55-60% efficient, not bad at all. Jonesy cleared it up and has dets on datasheet and spectrum
 

FmSwayze

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What do yall think about 3 RSPEC boards with 320 driver for 2x4? I'm thinking of remote wiring for my summer light to help keep my tent cooler? Any thoughts on this build? Or could I get by with with 240 meanwell.
 
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