Indoor Tasty LED T4-2100 Grow by Son of Hobbes

[Son of Hobbes]

Hey everyone I'm going to be starting a grow with a new test light from Kevin with @Tasty LED. The shipping was incredibly fast and I just received the light today, so I thought I would start this off with an unboxing.

The light arrived in a very discrete cardboard box. I know there's a lot of growers out there that are worried about what it says or if the delivery driver might pick up on anything, so here's some screens of the actual box itself as is, freshly delivered:

Literally two labels on the entire thing. I won't post the shipping label for obvious reasons, but it shows his name, the company address and telephone #, and Tasty LED, LLC as the company.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Here we are actually opening up the box. Thick styrofoam for padding and packing peanuts holding in the parts.

Here's a layout of what's all included:

Two heavy duty hanging ratchet straps:

One included blue cloth containing caribiner clips on thick key-rings:

One included power cord:

Four included reflector cups:

 

[Son of Hobbes]

The light itself:

Very sleek and clean!

And now we have egg yolks!

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Here's the fan and switches on top. I was playing with the dimmer switch and toggle, that's really cool! Will have to find out when a guy should be using that (maybe for seedling?)

Here's the heat sink:

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Here's the light hung up to test it out, I'll be repositioning it or possibly even moving it to a separate tent, but just to give an idea:

 

[briman]

That is quite the intro Hobbes! Looks like a solid unit for sure! Sub'd up for this run and wish you all the grow karma under your new toy!

 

[Tasty]

Glad it got there safe, the box looks kinda beat in that first pic. Anyway, looking forward to the grow. The dimmer can be useful for acclimating young plants. You may find in the veg stage that plant growth isn't linear with light level, so a bit of dimming can save some electricity. If you find a level you like you can use the switch to make the knob a preset.

 

[Ripper]

Looks good what kelvin are your cree's?

 

[Tasty]

They are 3500K 80 CRI. I can do custom builds and am open to changing the stock option at some point. I have a variety of K/CRI samples on the way to do some testing on. In the past there has been an efficiency penalty for high CRI versions but as they improve the phosphor coating tech the performance gap has been closing.

 

[Ripper]

They are 3500K 80 CRI. I can do custom builds and am open to changing the stock option at some point. I have a variety of K/CRI samples on the way to do some testing on. In the past there has been an efficiency penalty for high CRI versions but as they improve the phosphor coating tech the performance gap has been closing.

3500 k is perfect and what I run..