LED Lighting for first PC Case grow?

[Ghostdark11]

Hi All,

In the process of building my first stealth pc case and looking for cost effective lighting. I am in OZ and came across this http://www.livingapartment.com.au/Products/LED-Grow-Lights-Au/LED-Grow-Light-18x3w-Red-Lens-No-Fan
Any thoughts on how this would go?
Cheers in advance

 

[Cabinet Ninja]

Looks pretty good from my view for a PC sized grow. I am however. complete amateur when it comes to LED lighting, so do wait for the experts to chime in!

There are a fair few very well put together DIY LED light arrays here on the forums, so make sure to check them out.

 

[Ghostdark11]

Thanks for the reply Cabinet Ninja

 

[Ghostdark11]

Sorry for the bump. But really need some input about the specs on this light. Cheers

 

[Mingfa tech]

it looks pretty good , but maybe you need a better thermal solution https://heatsinkled.com

 

[Mingfa tech]

http://www.heatsinkled.com/

 

[Gr33nSanta]

http://www.rapidled.com/10-solderless-led-low-profile-rooting-kit/ this kit is pretty flexible, you could cut the heatsink, use different color temps. most LEDs are going to be too powerful for a computer grow. honestly, can you find something bigger than a cpu!?

 

[HuffnPufferfish]

pricey!

 

[mjconfid]

The rapidled choice above is good- plug and play and I think a lot better value and better suited to a pc case with limited height than the one you originally posted.

Depends on your pc size, but 280mm or 560mm bridglux eb strips are good value and have plug in connectors.

http://www.cutter.com.au/products.php?cat=Discounted+Led+Modules+Linear

Taking the 280mm ones as an example, bridglux say they can be ran with no heatsink at 350ma. @350ma they put out 7.7 watts each with 159 lumens per watt. Each strip has 12 leds, so light will be nicely spread out.

https://www.bridgelux.com/sites/default/files/resource_media/DS130%20EB%20Series%20Datasheet%20Rev%20A_0.pdf

If you did want heatsinks for peace of mind, 2mm thick aluminium sheet would do the trick and is v cheap at a local metal sheet shop.

So say you ran 6 strips (3 strings of 2 strips in series) with a driver like the meanwell LPC-60-1050, you would end up with around 45w of light giving 7000ish lumens.

...of course other drivers are suitable depending on your pc size, and how much light you want.

6 strips in parallel on a LPC-35-1400 would be about 30w and 4800 lumens .

More info about these and other strips here:
http://ledbuilder.org/index.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNp30XRYXO0

 

[mjconfid]

whoops....each 280mm strip has 24 leds, not 12

 

[Soulrebel239]

You should give those screw in leds a try. They are cheap and you can find them everywhere.