First step to heaven...building my dream

WELCOME TO MY DIARY

hello everybody, hope you are all good and safe.


i made this diary to share my passion for Grow LED, share the knowledge and my vision of led growing
Also made this diary to get your help from all of you :D

This is my first grow, my first time i use tools, first time as well doing electricity stuff, so i would love you to be kind and helpfull, for the others ....get some pop corn a lets do some fun!

This part will focus on BUILDING MY LIGHT

Its been 2 years now i ordered from Cutter many led strip with 3 channels tunnable : https://www.cutter.com.au/product/sol-strip-br-nic/
i never had space or time to do my dream grows, i moved from a flat to an other ect ect...but .... ITSSSS TIMMMME lady and gentleman:
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i wanted to be able to make Vegetativ and Flower stage with the same light, i also wanted to go on a spectrum witch aproach the most from the Real Sun light
That why i went on Nichia 757 Led , they are 1w each at 1amp , and has an amazing serie called "optisolis", especialy the 5000k@ 97 cri . more info here : https://www.cutter.com.au/led-technology/nichia-optisolis/
i show you their spectrums :

sunlight spectrum:
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Nichia 757 optisolis 5000k97cri ( so beautifuuulllll, got everything hmmmm, could put that in poster in my gaming room :D )
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i Choose the cree xd16 @3500 , those tiny beast goes to 6w each, and will help me provide penetration,
also choose the nichia 757@2000k and some cree xpe2 730 nm for the emersson effect and also to promote leaf grow for the autoflower seeds ;)
each strip has 108 led and can go up to 120w , but i will use them at max 75w each :)
for resuming we have 2 kind of led strip with 3 channel each ( hold tight, its become tricky ^^):

6 x strip :
1st channel 48x nichia 757 optisolis @5k @ 48v
2nd channel 48x nichia 757 optisolis @5k @ 48v
3rd channel : 12x cree xpe2 730 nm @ 28v



4x strip :
1st channel 48x nichia 757 @2000k @ 48v
2nd channel 48x nichia 757 @2000k @ 48v
3rd channel : 12x cree xd16 @3500k @ 36v


SO, i will make 2 structure with 5 led strip each structure size is : 60cm x 75cm / 23,6 "x 29,52"
each structure will have 3 led strip with the nichia optisolis 5k and 2 led strip with the nichia @2k.


let go for the build, i repeat , i never touched tools in my life, im a freaking geek witch dont know how to use his hands, im scare about doing electrical part, but with your help, it will be possible :

first step, make the structure, i use 20/20 profile and some beasty heatsink from steveled https://www.stevesleds.com/HD-Heatsink--24-610mm-Length-_p_390.html, they can handle 120w of heat without problems :) :

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then add the heatsink ans strips:
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3d print holder was so tight, its gonna be a war, but i did it:
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and there is the work :D
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lets duplicate that:
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Lets do some cable management, each structure has 30 wires....sometime i dont know why i started such a project....
bought big box to contain all the wire inside, lets drill some heatsink's holes, then screw the box on top of the middle heatsink's strip:
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lets make some cable management:
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....took me 4 hours to do that....im so bad with my hand, let clean it out :

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ok its start to look well:
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ok guy, finish for now, tomorow i will do the wiring connection between the strip and those 2 illumi meshteck pcb: https://eu.mouser.com/new/ilumi/ilumi-meshtek-controller/
with those baby i will be able to drive 4 channels with the same driver for each pcb:
so i will seperate like this:
1st illumi meshteck pcb with 600w meanwell driver for the 10 strip "white" nichia 2k&5k

channel 1: all the nichia 757 optisolis 5k from the structure 1
channel 2 : all the nichia 757 @2k from the structure 1
Channel 3: all the nichia 757 optisolis 5k from the structure 2
channel 4 : all the nichia 757 @2k from the structure 2


2nd illumi meshteck pcb with 240w meanwell driver for the 10 strip with xqe and xd16

Channel 1: all the cree xqe 730nm from the structure 1
Channel 2 all the cree xd16@ 3500k from the structure 1
Channel 3: all the cree xqe 730nm from the structure 2
Channel 4 all the cree xd16@ 3500k from the structure 2

will be able to driver each structure indepently
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to finish out, we will have 2 set of buddies from LED Teknik https://www.instagram.com/led_teknik/?hl=fr : 2 set of 4k high cri + 2 set of PCRED :D https://growlightsaustralia.com/product/buddies/
will see if i put them on side or/and under the canopee
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ok guyz, i know its a tricky thread, i will understand if you find that....too much, just tell me and ill stop it,
hope you took some pleasure, next time ill post the electrical part, it will be messy, i never did that in my life, then the first light test, cant wait to close this thread and make and other witch will finaly speak about growing!!!!!

have a great day/night everybody.
Lady and Gentleman, it was the Grisbi Shooow :D
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im gonna leave you with some picture of the baby and the sofware:


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managing the channel is so easy:
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temp/rh sensor, need to learn how to put action depending of temp/rh:
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First try of the light with connector and everything was fine! so happy and relief:

i can control white 5k independently from right structure to left structure :
left light nichia 5000k97 ON @50% of full power (3 strips ):
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Right light nichia 5000k97cri @50% of max power ( 3 led strip):
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Nichia 2000k @50% of max power ( 4 strip)
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Red 660/730: ( 6 strip)
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every thing @50% :D

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Been a long journey to achieve that, have to finish the ventilation and we are good :D
hope you guyz a good day/night
next time ill make a PAR test :D
and will configure the CresControl with their engeneer , really cool from them to take time for me!!
will thank them FOREVER


Big shotout to Cutter led Australia to sold me amazing led strip ( they are slooow to answer, but you can find amazing led brand and rare :d )
And to my dude Led teknik who offert me the Led buddies witch will be really usefull when my canopee will be packed :D
My seven wonder is almost finish, and ready to see what will be the result.
 

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hello boyz/girlz
hope everybody is fine :)

lets finish the hardware:
today ill drill 40 hole in the heatsinks to put my 10 pc fan Noctua 20cm pwm piloted by the cresccontrol hub :D
Noctua has such nice spacer witch allow me to put some space between pcfan and heatsink and optimise so well the ventilation + silence :D

the spacer: noctua na sav3
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put it in the hole!
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then apreciate your work :D :

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will do the same for the next 8 pc fan :D
waiting also for my heatsink endcap.
90% job done.
also working on my tent to do that with my Buddies from LedTeknik ( thank sir!!)
and will do the same than in the next picture for flowring mode when capony will be dense: ( will put them lower :D

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best regards!
 

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