[2000pm]

Great light rives, thing is beautiful.

Originally Posted by rives

If you haven't seen the LuxStrip, check out the last link. You can get various LED's, lenses, and current levels, and the price isn't unreasonable.


https://www.heatsinkusa.com/

https://www.ledsupply.com/luxstripII.php

Thanks for mentioning these luxstrips - i was going to put together a comparably garbage looking but similar light using the ah kits and luxstrips but forgot the name of those leds! There are a lot of options to choose from - what would you go with? (paired with 4x 55W plls)

[rives]

Originally Posted by 2000pm

There are a lot of options to choose from - what would you go with? (paired with 4x 55W plls)

If you look at the spectral distribution charts for the PL-L's, you will see that they all have very good spectrums aside from a weakness in the 660nm area. This holds true for all of the colors from 2700k to 4100k. This is why I supplemented with the 660nm Golden Dragon + LEDs. In looking at the LuxStrips, I don't think that the Cree XP-Gs are available in anything other than a variety of whites. Therefore, I would go for the Luxeon Rebels in deep red, at 700ma current, and probably without any lenses. They have a viewing angle of 125 degrees, so they are already a bit tighter than the Osram GD+, and I would be cautious about tightening that up to the point where you could get bleaching from the LED's before you got within the effective range of the PL-Ls.

Hope this helps, keep us posted if you decide to build one!

[whazzup]

I think this is a really nice implementation of a combination of old and new technology. kudos for your engineering skills sir

[budlover123]

Originally Posted by rives

It seems to be working just fine, though. I don't think that I have ever seen a plant flower this quickly - this is 8 days from flipping to 12/12. I don't know if that is a characteristic of the plant, or the LED's. I know that 660nm light is supposed to accelerate flowering, so perhaps that is a factor.

I built a DIY LED / HPS combo for a friend of mine about a year ago, he used to use HPS only but he always uses both lamps now for many reasons, but he mostly loves the fact that by day 7 there are usually nuggets with 50+ pistils already and by day 30 he can cut a couple nugs off if need be.



It's almost the opposite of what you are doing with Pl-l's, HPS red with LED blue. Less LEDs to buy but more power consumption. Amazing results as I'm sure you'll get with your light as well. just wanted to throw that out there, search the forums for the Futura S 2000 if you are interested in this project.

My project got no where near as much love as yours, so I have to fix an occasional broken solder point, but cheaper and easier can be good too

[GP73LPC]

that's killer OGmolton

[rives]

Originally Posted by OGmolton

It's almost the opposite of what you are doing with Pl-l's, HPS red with LED blue. Less LEDs to buy but more power consumption. Amazing results as I'm sure you'll get with your light as well. just wanted to throw that out there, search the forums for the Futura S 2000 if you are interested in this project.

I like it! I am currently scratching my head over something similar - I love the production levels of a scrog, but I am primarily interested in making topical oils and salves, which require more of the leaves in order to get the CBD content up. Toward this end I am looking at building an area for full-sized plants that utilizes either (2) CMH lamps or a 600 watt HPS, used in combination with my Lumigrow ES330 and some DIY LED sidelighting. I have been concerned about trying to get a good balance in relative penetration between the different light sources, but from your results with the Futura and the blue Crees, it appears as though it isn't as critical as I would have expected.

How did I miss this before? Incredible work my man! This puts my ghetto DIY light to shame!

[BENJI]

WOW simply amazing work...

[PetFlora]

Don't hold me to this, but I think I recall something about if you don't change to red (600+) for flowering you will get mostly CBD

very professional design and build bro.............so when are you going into mass production? j/k