New to building your own led

Greenthumbskunk

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I emailed horticulture lighting group of my questions and they have not responded to me. I'm wanting to see if anyone here can point me in the right direction.




Question on boards and driver

wanting to build my own lights and have never built an led set up before. Presently I'm using 315 CMH in my main flower room. The way my room is set up is I have around the perimeter of the room I'm growing in rdwc. In a scrog net with the CMH lights above the canopy. The area of the scrog net is 3 and 1/2 foot wide and the room is 16' long and 12' wide so in total I have around 8 315cmh lights covering this area which is 3.5x3.5.

I also use 2x4 tents to also flower as well with scrog nets.

I was looking at your boards you have on sale

https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/collections/quantum-boards/products/qb120-quantum-board


https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/collections/quantum-boards/products/qb324-with-slate-2-single-combo


https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/collections/quantum-boards/products/qb288-quantum-board



Not sure what to get or how to configure it with a driver. From what I understand about drivers I could care less about having a dimmer feature hanging on a cord. I'm fine with using w Phillips screwdriver and adjust it on the driver. Like this one.

https://www.amazon.com/HLG-240H-24A-Switching-Supply-Single-Output/dp/B005T6O5AQ?ref_=bl_dp_s_mw_9345416011


I have several power cords laying around that I was gonna use to change my lights over to 220 volts. So not real sure in all I need.


Thanks






This is a pic of the main flower area I've been redoing. It goes around like a U shape.


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whytewidow

Well-Known Member
If you go with the 288s in my opinion are the best boards they offer. They are 48v boards. Maxed out is 2800mA but honestly I wouldnt run them that hard. I'd push 2100mA into them. But they will need a heatsink. If you push 1050mA through each board you wont need sinks. But they are only pushing like 54w per board.

If it was me. I'd do 4 boards the 288v2 on an HLG-480h-c2100A

That will run each board at 100.8w and 403.2w per set of 4. And gives you head room to crank it to the full 480w.
 
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