Lighting Citizen 1812 build from Cobshop.net

[fatcalvin]

I'm going to try to get the wiring as neat as possible. It's hard because I have L brackets that hold it together. I wired up 4 of the cobs and I had to plug it in to see how bright it was. I must say it was pretty bright with only 4. Even with all the crap in my garage that was in the way the light found its way around it and cast some nice shadows on the wall!! Super stoked to get all 8 going. Here are some pics of what it looks like. Excuse the crap in the garage lol

 

[fatcalvin]

Well I got good new and some bad news. Good news is that it's completely done and works. Seems to be operating correctly and not getting very hot.
Bad news is I don't feel like it's going to be a replacement to my 600hps. I have one of those green 3 in 1 garden tools with the light intensity reader on it that I use as a gauge to set my plants under the lights. With the 600 about 12" from the hood it's at the max of 2000. With the cons I hit max at about 6" from the cobs and in the middles of cobs it's basically a dead area, around 200ish. So I know that it won't have the intensity of the 600.
Other thoughts: now because this is different lighting maybe the 3:1 tool doesn't pick it up correctly. I mean don't get me wrong the thing is bright!! I'm really hoping that because this thing was pricey and took a few hours to build. I will be starting a grow log probably in a month or less. Really just waiting for current run to finish up. I'm curious to see the results though. If you have any suggestions on why my light may not register high on that tool let me know. The tool works under my LED

 

[BigSm0]

These lux and even cheaper par meters are not an accurate way to compare lights. You would need to spend 500 on an apogee par meter and still have to do certain calculations depending on the type of light your testing. That light is also spread out more too so that tiny photo cell isn’t getting all the light from each cob. You are nearly double the light of a 600w hps depending on which brand.

 

[fatcalvin]

Thanks @BigSm0 . Sorry if I sounded like a dick in that post lol I was frustrated because I was hot and just got done finishing building it. I could tell by a visual amount of light that it was in fact bright as hell. I really want to put it into action. I got like 5 days of flush left so I might throw it in there for that just to see in the room what it looks like.
Also I forgot to ask what K those cons were. They look white so I'm thinking 3500k?

 

[Unique]

These lux and even cheaper par meters are not an accurate way to compare lights. You would need to spend 500 on an apogee par meter and still have to do certain calculations depending on the type of light your testing. That light is also spread out more too so that tiny photo cell isn’t getting all the light from each cob. You are nearly double the light of a 600w hps depending on which brand.

yeah, it's true that is smoking the 600w all day long in par, probably twice the output or better... plus as @BigSm0 say's your light more evenly balanced not constrained to one area like an Hps will do.

 

[BigSm0]

Thanks @BigSm0 . Sorry if I sounded like a dick in that post lol I was frustrated because I was hot and just got done finishing building it. I could tell by a visual amount of light that it was in fact bright as hell. I really want to put it into action. I got like 5 days of flush left so I might throw it in there for that just to see in the room what it looks like.
Also I forgot to ask what K those cons were. They look white so I'm thinking 3500k?

Yes 3500k. Ditch the light meter and compare the new growth rates. You will be amazed very soon.

 

[wwwillie]

I have to tell ya I’m using 4 of these and they easily replace my 640 watt HPS.


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[fatcalvin]

Thanks for the help guys. I figured since it is like a synthetic light source that it wouldnt show up on the meter right. I will start a journal and hopefully its not too much light lol

 

[Free Flow]

Tag me in the journal, lights looks amazing.

 

[wwwillie]

I have a great comparison going t5 vs cob. 260 watt t5 vs 110 or 225 watt cob. I say that because there are two over the plant I am comparing. To my point, the flowers under the cob are literally rock hard, the t5 are nice, real nice actually, but no comparison.