Hello, everyone!
This is my first experience making a post here, so let’s go.
To make a very quick introduction about my goals:
Me and @arexxurus recently graduated at Electronic Engineering and we decided to deep dive in your passion using all the stuffs that we’ve learned in our journey. Life and other things included.
Our budget is really short, so we are trying to develop an automated hydroponic system (talk for another Topics). We are fine with the electronic stuff but we are really noob in grower universe. It is our first adventure planting!
Bearing in mind the money restriction (first steps after college…), we are trying to build our own lighting setup. This is the problem.
This setup should use this LEDs below (100W/Chip on board):
We’ve thought to use this layout for the lights:
And make a box to hold all these lights cooled by an individual heatsink for each light + 4 fan coolers for this box.
In the end we would like to have a box with 7 COBs and dimensions of 50cm x 40 cm.
Then, our beginner’s questions are:
- What material should I use for the box? I have no idea, maybe aluminium (?)
- Is this “cooler setup” enough for 700W LED COBs?
- Would be good this layout for the plants lighting absorption?
Anything would be helpful!
Great hugs!
same as last posted reply. For the plants lighting absorption. Optimal absorption of light occurs at different wavelengths for different pigments. So spectrum, wavelength, color of light, here is a reference image,