Fiber optic cables direct light straight to fan leaves.

[gradolabs]

 

[gradolabs]

At what point do I patent this?

edit: my conscience says before i post it to a forum on the internet.

fml, its 900 bucks to submit a patent. plus government fee's. well shit...

 

[BLACKBRIAR]

This had me laughing pretty good,
Download a picture of a bright sunny day and use that to grow with
awesome thread by the way.

 

[gradolabs]

It'll be a few weeks, but I'll put together a business model and post it to http://www.kickstarter.com/ - I could use more technical input so if you want to get in in this at the ground floor, there's no better time. Everyone's invited.

 

[gradolabs]

I redesigned the breadboard for better packing efficiency. Also made note of two potential spectrum profiles. Veg gets 2 430nm, 2 470nm, a warm white (3200k-3500k, unsure of cooresponding wavelength - guessing 480-550), 620nm, and 665nm. That should be 7 led's, and I might go with 3w chips cause they're less costly and with any luck we won't need the 5w till bloom. Speaking of which, for flowering I'd like a 450nm, 470nm, 2 620nm, and 2 665nm with one warm white. I wouldn't mind using the 5w chips here cause its ass kicking time for the plant and I don't want to disappoint. I'll have to focus the beam of the led down to 10* or less to channel all the light into the fiber optics cables, so that's left to be addressed along with pretty much everything else... just an observation I've made.

 

[gradolabs]

Added a fan and an aluminum heat sink to the design. I might stay up for a while and work on a diagram I can share with you guys. Too many schematics won't do anyone any good if they can't see the big picture.

 

[gradolabs]

It's like they knew I was coming... this focuses seven led's into a single beam for fiber optic transmission. And it's not the only one they sell... I have options to experiment with.

http://www.luxeonstar.com/Polymer-Optics-7-LED-Cluster-Concentrator-Optic-p/263.htm

I feel like Agent Mulder, thinking the truth is out there, but instead of aliens, I'm looking for a better grow light.

The funny thing is this is all just for weed. I mean, I can license the tech to NASA so they can grow tomatoes on mars, but personally... I'm just going to grow some monster cannabis.

It even looks sexy. Looks like you could propose to someone with it. Will you be my cannabis? And the hell of it was I was having trouble mixing the light from each different led so it comes out homogenized instead of each FO bundle carrying a different part of the spectrum. Now it all gets mixed properly. One less thing to worry about, I suppose.

 

[gradolabs]

As with all great ideas, the scope and magnitude of this undertaking doubles every minute I spend thinking about it. It's 8:30 in the morning here, and despite having donated the entire night to CAD design, fiber optic research, and coffee breaks, I just had another revelation... But I'll wait to dump it you guys. The punch line is, everyone is going to want seven of these.

 

[Sherlock Bowlmes]

im all for this!!! when this shit hits the market in theory it will make everything else more obsolete so to speak lowering the price of all grow lights. but i had thought of this before but with using the suns rays, and mounting it on a tracker similar to the ones they use for solar panels that follow the sun. i mean it seems like a smarter idea than putting your plants out on the roof for everyone to see lol

 

[gradolabs]

Alright - I'll produce a single prototype with off the shelf products and use it to garner enthusiasm and professional contacts within the various industries contributing to the design. Shouldn't be more than $150 for everything believe it or not.