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Aolelon

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You do that. Let us all sit in awe as you lead the entire Cannabis industy on your shoulders and we will all follow suit. I'm out of this thread. By Trump.
Lmao any light with an active cooling system is going to run cool. I can throw a couple fans on my system and bring the temperatures way down as well. And yea plenty of us have used shitty Chinese LEDs and were highly dissapointed. How many watts did it say the light was? Bet it was nowhere near the real wattage. Any light that had to lie about its wattage ro get customers is a shit light.
 

Aolelon

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And I'm sorry but timbergrowlights is expensive as hell. If you can use a drill and a screw driver you can put together a cob build with double the cobs for the same price. But I understand not everyone can.
 

Frank Nitty

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Lmao any light with an active cooling system is going to run cool. I can throw a couple fans on my system and bring the temperatures way down as well. And yea plenty of us have used shitty Chinese LEDs and were highly dissapointed. How many watts did it say the light was? Bet it was nowhere near the real wattage. Any light that had to lie about its wattage ro get customers is a shit light.
i hope not

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OK, so I went to cobkits.com and I see this CXM22 passive light engine 120mm-133mm,what's the best color temp?they have so many different ones! I'm leaning towards the 133,just don't know about the color temp thing...
 

1212ham

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3500k is good for veg. and flowering. cobkits will be glad to help you select well matched parts.
I bet he suggests an HLG-185 driver, that will give you 200+ watts AND have dimming. :-)
 
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Aolelon

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OK, so I went to cobkits.com and I see this CXM22 passive light engine 120mm-133mm,what's the best color temp?they have so many different ones! I'm leaning towards the 133,just don't know about the color temp thing...
3000k and 3500k are general purpose for veg and flower. There is really minimal difference between the two. I am using 3000k myself, but it's just preference really.
 

Aolelon

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not exactly but they do have cob mounted which is the more challenging part
Yea I was looking at the wrong light. My bad. I swear I seen a cob in your selection that already had the driver attached. Maybe that was rapidled.
 

Aolelon

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I don't think there is a fan. The heatsink is what cools the cob. You will need a driver to power the cob though. Are you planning on ordering just one or multiple? And do you already have a light or is this the only light?
 
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Frank Nitty

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I don't think there is a fan. The heatsink is what cools the cob. You will need a driver to power the cob though. Are you planning on ordering just one or multiple? And do you already have a light or is this the only light?
First time I ever saw one...no, I take that back,its the first time I really thought about getting one though...
 

Aolelon

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Well if you're just getting one I would think about overdriving it a little bit for the 2x2 area. Maybe running it at 100w or so. And then you can plan on getting another one down the road and lowering the wattage. Depending on what driver you get is how high they will be ran. If you get an hlg-100h-54a then you have a built in potentiameter and it will run about the 100w with the possibility of dimming it if needed.
 

Frank Nitty

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Well if you're just getting one I would think about overdriving it a little bit for the 2x2 area. Maybe running it at 100w or so. And then you can plan on getting another one down the road and lowering the wattage. Depending on what driver you get is how high they will be ran. If you get an hlg-100h-54a then you have a built in potentiameter and it will run about the 100w with the possibility of dimming it if needed.
And how much will that cost me
 

Aolelon

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You could go with a bigger driver if you plan on adding more cobs later and dim it down a bit.
 

skoomd

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You could go with a bigger driver if you plan on adding more cobs later and dim it down a bit.
I would get a bigger driver. 100w in a 2x2 space isn't a whole lot. Usually with cobs/quantumboards/etc we aim for 30-40 watts a square foot. 100w is only 25w a square foot.

edit: though the a versions do pump out closer to 130w or so. Which would be fine actually.
 

Aolelon

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Yea that's what I would do. Probably go with the hlg-185h-54a and run it about 60%. It's still around the same price. Or an hlg-120h-54a.
 
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