Lighting Cobkits Light Engines!

[pop22]

general consensus is 400 watts of modern COB lighting will equal 600 watts of HPS. I'm eager to see what my 300 watt light does with a big, bush strain Auto Ultimate of Blueberry Domina, etc. We'll see soon, next grow will be some light busting plants! lol

 

[Puddentane]

Oh, and BTW @pop22

you consumate salesman you... Well, all of you guys in this thread actually.

I will be transitioning out my Chinese lights and blurples to a separate grow space where I can use them to build specimen veg plants and then they can come to the colliseum to fight it out. Two plants enter, both get chopped up, eviscerated, and incinerated to dispose of the bodies.

 

[Evil-Mobo]

Well, when I replaced my T5 with 275w of COB for veg and I took down the 1 HPS and put 600W of COB's I was able to turn off my portable A/C in the grow room period. It's in the garage I put a rack in place to hold my supplies lol. With the old setup that unit ran all day at 73 degrees or so, plus the house A/C had to be set cool all day running. Now I just run the house A/C as normal and there is still a 1K HPS in half the tent. So the temps can only improve when/if it comes down after this run, we shall see. But it's looking like it's coming down lol.....

Now I can run my exhaust fan quieter too, going into the grow room does not borderline require hearing protection lol. That's why I built my COB lights with passive cooling in mind got tired of all the damn fan noise. There is also no U/V in the COB's lighting to worry about when working under it. Mess around and work under an HPS for too long and see what happens lol, sunburn!

These are the major things off of the top of my head but there's more I am sure.

But, at the end of the day lighting is but a part of the equation, your room/area as a whole needs to be dialed in. Environment plays more of a role. The guys that are good, can grow under anything.

 

[Evil-Mobo]

Oh, and BTW @pop22

you consumate salesman you... Well, all of you guys in this thread actually.

I will be transitioning out my Chinese lights and blurples to a separate grow space where I can use them to build specimen veg plants and then they can come to the colliseum to fight it out. Two plants enter, both get chopped up, eviscerated, and incinerated to dispose of the bodies.

 

[pop22]

Yes, there are more option than people realize, and we have guys like Northern Growlight and cobkits testing new ones all the time. Citizen's next gen chips should be out soon, and promise a nice increase in both output and efficincy! Cree has new chips also, along with Bridgelux ( NOT those Epistar garbage that all try to claim their Bridgelux ). We haven't even got close to where LED's will peak yet! But most of what's available now is all capable of building great growlights and most of your DIY will let you upgrade the chips rather than the whole light. We all tend to use the Meanwell drivers because, they are the most reliable and efficient driver you can get. You can save $10 or so if you want to give that up.......not me!

Your my kind of guy my dad taught me how to phone for estimates and get the best quote lol. The most I ever DIY'ed with the old boy was a still LMAO. I have zero electrical experience unless you call screwing in a lightbulb electrical work. Being Canadian nothing is cheap when our dollar is a 72 cents to a 1.00 dollar american. So I need to keep it in stages I want to build to 400 watt COB lights. Is this not like any other business you get what you pay for something might work amazing now but 10.000 hours in they show there true quality. I read somewhere led inside magazine I think that CREE leds take 10.000 hours just to stabilize into a life of longevity. Some great reading out there I found out there is a lot of korean japanese and chinese led COB makers more than I thought and for all differnt aplications. I was looking at company that makes 3000 color spectrum COB and they had the NICIHA which is supossedly right up there with orsam and cree sorry about this I will apply the short pencil beats a long memory affect next time I get reading on this stuff

 

[Puddentane]

That's my kind of porn. stripped her down and made her blaze. what a great way to take an ailing panel and bring it back to new life. Did you use the drivers fans and sinks from the original lights? I am going to eventually want to change out my Mars 300 and that looks like just the kind of approach I am looking to do.

And the idea that a new family of chips are just around the corner has me really pumped. Gotta start saving some cash to upgrade.

 

[pop22]

This is how I discovered my previous light were way, under powered. 685 true watts from Apollo ans Sunspect lights ( cheap Chinese crap ) were great in veg, grew some big plants. But when flowering was complete, buds were all large grape to smaller than a golfball. Now, well, you see the buds... Even if I never add another light, my grows will exceed anything I had before, with no question. With better heatsinks, I could run at 400 watts and still be better than 47% efficient.

Well, when I replaced my T5 with 275w of COB for veg and I took down the 1 HPS and put 600W of COB's I was able to turn off my portable A/C in the grow room period. It's in the garage I put a rack in place to hold my supplies lol. With the old setup that unit ran all day at 73 degrees or so, plus the house A/C had to be set cool all day running. Now I just run the house A/C as normal and there is still a 1K HPS in half the tent. So the temps can only improve when/if it comes down after this run, we shall see. But it's looking like it's coming down lol.....

Now I can run my exhaust fan quieter too, going into the grow room does not borderline require hearing protection lol. That's why I built my COB lights with passive cooling in mind got tired of all the damn fan noise. There is also no U/V in the COB's lighting to worry about when working under it. Mess around and work under an HPS for too long and see what happens lol, sunburn!

These are the major things off of the top of my head but there's more I am sure.

But, at the end of the day lighting is but a part of the equation, your room/area as a whole needs to be dialed in. Environment plays more of a role. The guys that are good, can grow under anything.

 

[Evil-Mobo]

That's my kind of porn. stripped her down and made her blaze. what a great way to take an ailing panel and bring it back to new life. Did you use the drivers fans and sinks from the original lights? I am going to eventually want to change out my Mars 300 and that looks like just the kind of approach I am looking to do.

And the idea that a new family of chips are just around the corner has me really pumped. Gotta start saving some cash to upgrade.

I did this to a shitty Hydroponics Hut Pro Gro 260 and then gave the light to a friend who needed something to grow with but was tight on funds. :smoking:

 

[Puddentane]

As piece meal as my system is, I am approaching the point in time that I have to sit down and start doing some math and planning to optimize the next system I build. I am thinking of using last years cabinet for the starter tent, and next year getting a much larger tent to flower in. 2x4 by 5 is tiny and I see that now. Thinking along the lines of a 4X8 for flowering. But that is next years adventure.

So here is what I ran with last year. I wont call it a joke because it got me nicely toasted and helped to produce sufficient fun stuff to get me and my friends some very nice brownies out of it. I just gave them away and they were some potent little suckers. I have had enough friends in the past take care of me that now I feel like I gotta give back.

 

[Puddentane]

I did this to a shitty Hydroponics Hut Pro Gro 260 and then gave the light to a friend who needed something to grow with but was tight on funds. :smoking:

That is a true friend indeed. Teach a man to fish, then give him the fishing tackle to get the job done...