That's it I'm now not only obsessed with growing canna, I have now also picked up a fetish for building my own lights. I'm not pretending to understand the geek side of cobs, I get the gist but most of it makes my head hurt. But I do love building stuff and putting these lights together is so much easier than expected...its not rocket science.
So I've got my self 5x Citizen CLU048-1212 90 CRI 3500k hooked up in my main tent and I need a veg light for my propagation tent (120cmx60cmx100m). I do own 2 Mars Hydro's, one Reflector 48 and a Classic 600w both waiting for a hacking. I'm leaving the 600w, I really want to pimp her up and take my time on that build. But to get thing started I thought I would rip my Reflector 48 apart and do a quick and cheapest possible hack I can do.
So what do we get in a Mars reflector 48 claiming to be 150w. Not much really for £80... I didn't spend that much, only 40 notes on ebay, second hand...one grow old... they all say that.
Well you get 2 x 50w drivers for the lights and one 12v for the fan, you don't even get a heat sink.
Here's the driver specs for the LED's
Where is my heat sink...pffft...Looks like I'm going to have to buy a heat sink that fits... So my idea so far is one cob per driver at 4000k, @BigSm0 has advised to go with using the 1812's ... good thing is i have 2 switches so i can turn one off when not need... no dimmer though, will that be an issue with my high restriction of only a meter ?
If any one has any cool pimping idea's towards this hack please speak up
I want to keep the cost as low a possible, so the shopping list so far will be
1 x heat sink... @2Stoned2Care where did you get your from dude ?
2 x citizen 1218 at 4000k plus holders... this can be a little tricky in the UK to source, speak up if you know where.
And I may upgrade the fan to something quieter, that's not a big cost.
To be honest that is not much to ask for to do a conversion and turn a cheap light into a kick ass light... would be even cheaper if it came with a heat sink...
Once I get the parts sorted I shall document the build step by step so hopefully I can encourage some of you over to the cob side of light and rip those Mars lights apart for there guts.
Here's pic of a cute dog to look at wile I source these parts...
So I've got my self 5x Citizen CLU048-1212 90 CRI 3500k hooked up in my main tent and I need a veg light for my propagation tent (120cmx60cmx100m). I do own 2 Mars Hydro's, one Reflector 48 and a Classic 600w both waiting for a hacking. I'm leaving the 600w, I really want to pimp her up and take my time on that build. But to get thing started I thought I would rip my Reflector 48 apart and do a quick and cheapest possible hack I can do.
So what do we get in a Mars reflector 48 claiming to be 150w. Not much really for £80... I didn't spend that much, only 40 notes on ebay, second hand...one grow old... they all say that.
Well you get 2 x 50w drivers for the lights and one 12v for the fan, you don't even get a heat sink.
Here's the driver specs for the LED's
Where is my heat sink...pffft...Looks like I'm going to have to buy a heat sink that fits... So my idea so far is one cob per driver at 4000k, @BigSm0 has advised to go with using the 1812's ... good thing is i have 2 switches so i can turn one off when not need... no dimmer though, will that be an issue with my high restriction of only a meter ?
If any one has any cool pimping idea's towards this hack please speak up
I want to keep the cost as low a possible, so the shopping list so far will be
1 x heat sink... @2Stoned2Care where did you get your from dude ?
2 x citizen 1218 at 4000k plus holders... this can be a little tricky in the UK to source, speak up if you know where.
And I may upgrade the fan to something quieter, that's not a big cost.
To be honest that is not much to ask for to do a conversion and turn a cheap light into a kick ass light... would be even cheaper if it came with a heat sink...
Once I get the parts sorted I shall document the build step by step so hopefully I can encourage some of you over to the cob side of light and rip those Mars lights apart for there guts.
Here's pic of a cute dog to look at wile I source these parts...
