Lighting The new DIY Section

[BigSm0]

People “love” lighting, nutrients, pots or whatever and never do the necessary side by side grows. After my first cob grow I knew they were special. Not until I had lb’s stacked up did I love them. Honestly I’m still surprised with every grow.


These still have time left to fatten up. Probably 2-3 weeks. Up until a week ago it was at 11 watts per square foot! I’m now at 15 watts per square foot.
8 plants total in a 4x10 space. 450 watts cost me hardly anything to run. Even now at 600 watts.

Not to impressed with these 3 on the left side. Very small plants. Maybe 3-4oz on each of them. More upset it will hurt the average.

Fat Betty sharing 3 cobs with her sister on the left.

 

[mikey2017]

Ok I'm going put my cobs on these heat sinks and I was wondering if it be better or to keep them.on a old LED panel ..

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[BigSm0]

Ok I'm going put my cobs on these heat sinks and I was wondering if it be better or to keep them.on a old LED panel ..

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Not sure how you would fit them inside a panel.

 

[mikey2017]

Not sure how you would fit them inside a panel.

No I'm wanting do away with the panel just curious on how to run the wires I'm want them to be single hangers

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[mikey2017]

Not sure how you would fit them inside a panel.

@BigSmo if u was going run them how would u run them in my case I'm going put each one on a separate heat sink I'm trying figure out how to go about the wires and hanging them..I want to be Abel to adjust each one and trying get that blurple old panel out of the tent..

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[BigSm0]

Unfortunately there is no way around the wires. You can stick a driver on each, or you can run wires to each. No getting around that.

 

[mikey2017]

Unfortunately there is no way around the wires. You can stick a driver on each, or you can run wires to each. No getting around that.

Yes I need me a meanwell driver a buddy to me get one and I could run up to 12 lights from it of I needed to but I'm only going use 6 so what size would u recommend..I'm going try get away from running so many wires.is all I'm trying do I guess I'll just have to zip tie them up out of the way..But I can tell a big difference in the size of the plants using cobs over LED and I think that they veg a little longer under the cobs maybe I'm crazy but don't think so on this one.

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[Trichome farmer]

hello every body im looking into building a 4 cob light to go along with my telos-008 to boost up light for flowering from the research iv done so far iv gatherd that il need 4 cree cxb3590s or something that does the same job .four 80mmx80/140mm pin style passive heatsinks and all the accesories to put them together holders thermal paste and maybe some reflectors the only two bits i have questions about are what color temp at what CRI would be best for my application and what mean well driver would run 4 cobs with ease maybe @BigSm0 or any one who has some experiance could help mean with some specs i need so i dont fry my cobs or cant run them at all thanks to anyone who can help out with some info im based in europe so shipping from the us can be expensive the only reason i havnt got a diy kit

 

[mikey2017]

hello every body im looking into building a 4 cob light to go along with my telos-008 to boost up light for flowering from the research iv done so far iv gatherd that il need 4 cree cxb3590s or something that does the same job .four 80mmx80/140mm pin style passive heatsinks and all the accesories to put them together holders thermal paste and maybe some reflectors the only two bits i have questions about are what color temp at what CRI would be best for my application and what mean well driver would run 4 cobs with ease maybe @BigSm0 or any one who has some experiance could help mean with some specs i need so i dont fry my cobs or cant run them at all thanks to anyone who can help out with some info im based in europe so shipping from the us can be expensive the only reason i havnt got a diy kit

@BigSmo he's the man to guide you in the right direction and he will help u in any way he can. I've probably gave him more headache in the last few months than he's had in his life.But I'm sure he will help u out..

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[BigSm0]

hello every body im looking into building a 4 cob light to go along with my telos-008 to boost up light for flowering from the research iv done so far iv gatherd that il need 4 cree cxb3590s or something that does the same job .four 80mmx80/140mm pin style passive heatsinks and all the accesories to put them together holders thermal paste and maybe some reflectors the only two bits i have questions about are what color temp at what CRI would be best for my application and what mean well driver would run 4 cobs with ease maybe @BigSm0 or any one who has some experiance could help mean with some specs i need so i dont fry my cobs or cant run them at all thanks to anyone who can help out with some info im based in europe so shipping from the us can be expensive the only reason i havnt got a diy kit

I prefer the citizens over the cree 3590’s myself. I’m running the 50v 1812 citizens. For the cree’s a hlg-185-1400 would run 4 wired in series. For veg and flower the 3500k seems to be the best fit. As for cri it is impossible to see any noticeable difference between the two. Buuuut there was one grow where the guy did substantially better with the 90 cri so that’s what everyone wants now.