Klompen
Active member
My new chamber I am building is basically going to be a set of four stalls that are sort of like lockers that each have their own lighting and are totally sealed from the others(so I can run photoperiod and autos separately among other things). Each chamber is going to be 18" wide and about 28" deep and about 6 feet tall. I want to put some high efficacy lights along the side and am currently leaning toward high efficacy tape light since I can't seem to find any quantum board products that meet my needs. I'm aiming for about 10-20W per side and then a powerful COB overhead.
That leads me to my current question: What COB is best? I know the CXB5690 from Cree is more or less the standard, but its been around quite a while now. The Luminus CXM-22 Gen 4 has comparable or superior efficiency and I see a lot of folks saying they're good. Right now I am using blurple Chinese "driverless" COB lights and while they performed way better than I ever expected, they also get hot like an inferno and are expensive and noisy to run as a result. If I have to, I'll use such a COB overhead, but I think it would be nice to have something more quality.
Budget is a huge issue so it all has to be DIY. I probably won't be able to buy them all at once, but I need to start getting these parts together and get my photoperiod plants flowering soon. I have Summer Breeze(Trifoliate), OJSDKB, Loud n' Proud, J1 Hashplant, Killer Orange, and Black Triangle waiting to go to 12/12 whenever I get this stuff figured out....
That leads me to my current question: What COB is best? I know the CXB5690 from Cree is more or less the standard, but its been around quite a while now. The Luminus CXM-22 Gen 4 has comparable or superior efficiency and I see a lot of folks saying they're good. Right now I am using blurple Chinese "driverless" COB lights and while they performed way better than I ever expected, they also get hot like an inferno and are expensive and noisy to run as a result. If I have to, I'll use such a COB overhead, but I think it would be nice to have something more quality.
Budget is a huge issue so it all has to be DIY. I probably won't be able to buy them all at once, but I need to start getting these parts together and get my photoperiod plants flowering soon. I have Summer Breeze(Trifoliate), OJSDKB, Loud n' Proud, J1 Hashplant, Killer Orange, and Black Triangle waiting to go to 12/12 whenever I get this stuff figured out....