Diy with arrow

FmSwayze said:

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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It would work well as long as you have good air movement across the boards.

FmSwayze said:

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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Them refurbished boards for $29 are a good deal for something you can put together quickly without to much time invested. The slate heatsinks aren't a bad deal either.

I wanted a way to get a cheap mcpcb to reflow solder some xpg3 photo red and xpe2 far red diodes to and thought I'll just remove diodes from some cheap ass strips, found these the 2700k 90 cri ain't great efficiency but color quality for flower on point 5700k 70CRI extreme opposite


12 up xpg3 5700k 70cri $0.70


4 up xpg3 2700k 90cri $0.15

The 12 up and 4 up xpg3 boards have thermal tape already attached. Which is awesome, if I wasn't planning on removing and replacing some of the diodes
I bought 150 of the 2700k 90 cri

I plan to remove 3 of the diodes on some and replace them with 2 xpg3 photo reds and 1 xpe2 far red making an extra wide red at 500ma be around 4.5 watts each supp to add to the osram 3030 strip build

I realize these options will not appeal to the majority, but for a home grower with a small operation, or even someone like myself living in a cheaper electricity area, these will work. I've always wanted to do a build out of extreme high power (xhp series) diodes. More specifically I always wanted to try xhp50.2 being such a big single die diode. Anyways here are some cheap options available ATM

Xhp35.2




Xhp50.2



There are more but it keeps erasing when I switch tabs, anyways I think they would make a cool light