ok, finally at a point to get this going somewhere
Main goal of this project.. to have a all white LED lamp giving max performance ( lower watts used ). I guess one could say, why not just buy some T5 and be done, well I could, at it makes logical sense and $ sense also, but then I wouldn't be following my heart.. damn heart leads you down the harder path every time, but it's been enjoyable so no complaints.. I hate "retro" / purple color light looking at my plants, the whole point of growing for me is to enjoy looking at them, and taking care of them, smoke is something secondary as I feel "in-tune" enough to never need it if it came to that.. but do I enjoy it.. hell yes.. and thus the quest was started to bring an all white LED to life, being able to get max enjoyability from my plants again, and wanted no mercury.. I guess we could go into metals and heavy metals, but mercury was on the mind years ago, and .. well I guess we work toward progress on step at a time.. I always wondered why no one every built a seedling tray light for clones / bonsai moms / and young plants.. it made sense to me, but I guess to no one else, so above all this hits the spot as since LED came out I was wanting a light to cover a seedling tray, and now have it
I am focused on veg for the moment, as it's the first stage of plants, I grow from seed and moving away from clone so it's even more important, and I believe it's just as important as flower, as shitty plant in, means shitty plant out.. veg is under-valued I feel, and we must have respect for all sides of growing, life to death..
I'm using xm-l2. why? I'm a perfectionist, and they are the newest chip, new to me, means more for the same if I was to use xm-l. bad is that each chip that comes out changes color spectrum.. so this test might not mean much to some, to others it might help if building a light, or switching out chips from xm-l down the road..
I like to keep things short, so a little more. fans have been changed to "better" newer models, and pushed together to only have airflow out the sides, as before it was coming out the middle and am sure being re-circulated.. colors are CW at 6500k / NW at 4500k / WW at 3000k .. still deciding if I should have gone 4000k for NW, and 2700k for WW but this is some of my first stuff for HML, so I can't be to hard on myself.. Simon go back ( Simon is my perfectionist sides name.. haha , thank the wife for that.. ) , also using sinkpad stars, suppose to give better temps which = higher lumen, hence my fans also..cooler sink = cooler chip = higher lumen.
I have 6 bars, so 6 tests can go at a time, 1 is open to my imagination still.. I do have some ideas how to narrow this down quickly in spectrum, and is as follows:
COMPARING:
NW/WW - NW/CW
WW/NW - WW/CW
CW/NW - CW/WW
then there is more a tailored mix to try once the above are shown what grows best to:
CW leaning - 9 CW / 3 WW / 6 NW - 9 CW / 3 NW / 6 WW
NW leaning - 9 NW / 6 CW / 3 WW - 9 NW / 6 WW / 3 CW
WW leaning - 9 WW / 6 CW / 3 NW - 9 WW / 6 NW / 3 CW
now a thing to keep in mind, these bars were built on the basis of max performance, and to light a seedling tray ( 1x2 foot ) to very high performance.. it's designed to be overkill for two reasons, number one is simply overkill, getting max lumens, second is upgrade ability, being able to be used later down the road for veg / flower or any idea that comes to mind.. all that needs to be switched are the chips / drivers.. the sink is built, also if it comes to the point of high lumens per watt, there's always the dimmer, or spacing the led, and using one bar to cover two trays... but that's down the road when we hit extremely high lumens per watt..
attack of the clones ( first time tacking LED to star base )
switching out fans ( mind the carpet, I'm in a extended stay hotel... moved again...... )
color combo as of right now.. most likely gonna change the all WW one, color can be seen from screw color
chart of XM-L2 for anyone interested in the color spectrum
Main goal of this project.. to have a all white LED lamp giving max performance ( lower watts used ). I guess one could say, why not just buy some T5 and be done, well I could, at it makes logical sense and $ sense also, but then I wouldn't be following my heart.. damn heart leads you down the harder path every time, but it's been enjoyable so no complaints.. I hate "retro" / purple color light looking at my plants, the whole point of growing for me is to enjoy looking at them, and taking care of them, smoke is something secondary as I feel "in-tune" enough to never need it if it came to that.. but do I enjoy it.. hell yes.. and thus the quest was started to bring an all white LED to life, being able to get max enjoyability from my plants again, and wanted no mercury.. I guess we could go into metals and heavy metals, but mercury was on the mind years ago, and .. well I guess we work toward progress on step at a time.. I always wondered why no one every built a seedling tray light for clones / bonsai moms / and young plants.. it made sense to me, but I guess to no one else, so above all this hits the spot as since LED came out I was wanting a light to cover a seedling tray, and now have it
I am focused on veg for the moment, as it's the first stage of plants, I grow from seed and moving away from clone so it's even more important, and I believe it's just as important as flower, as shitty plant in, means shitty plant out.. veg is under-valued I feel, and we must have respect for all sides of growing, life to death..
I'm using xm-l2. why? I'm a perfectionist, and they are the newest chip, new to me, means more for the same if I was to use xm-l. bad is that each chip that comes out changes color spectrum.. so this test might not mean much to some, to others it might help if building a light, or switching out chips from xm-l down the road..
I like to keep things short, so a little more. fans have been changed to "better" newer models, and pushed together to only have airflow out the sides, as before it was coming out the middle and am sure being re-circulated.. colors are CW at 6500k / NW at 4500k / WW at 3000k .. still deciding if I should have gone 4000k for NW, and 2700k for WW but this is some of my first stuff for HML, so I can't be to hard on myself.. Simon go back ( Simon is my perfectionist sides name.. haha , thank the wife for that.. ) , also using sinkpad stars, suppose to give better temps which = higher lumen, hence my fans also..cooler sink = cooler chip = higher lumen.
I have 6 bars, so 6 tests can go at a time, 1 is open to my imagination still.. I do have some ideas how to narrow this down quickly in spectrum, and is as follows:
COMPARING:
NW/WW - NW/CW
WW/NW - WW/CW
CW/NW - CW/WW
then there is more a tailored mix to try once the above are shown what grows best to:
CW leaning - 9 CW / 3 WW / 6 NW - 9 CW / 3 NW / 6 WW
NW leaning - 9 NW / 6 CW / 3 WW - 9 NW / 6 WW / 3 CW
WW leaning - 9 WW / 6 CW / 3 NW - 9 WW / 6 NW / 3 CW
now a thing to keep in mind, these bars were built on the basis of max performance, and to light a seedling tray ( 1x2 foot ) to very high performance.. it's designed to be overkill for two reasons, number one is simply overkill, getting max lumens, second is upgrade ability, being able to be used later down the road for veg / flower or any idea that comes to mind.. all that needs to be switched are the chips / drivers.. the sink is built, also if it comes to the point of high lumens per watt, there's always the dimmer, or spacing the led, and using one bar to cover two trays... but that's down the road when we hit extremely high lumens per watt..
attack of the clones ( first time tacking LED to star base )
switching out fans ( mind the carpet, I'm in a extended stay hotel... moved again...... )
color combo as of right now.. most likely gonna change the all WW one, color can be seen from screw color
chart of XM-L2 for anyone interested in the color spectrum
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