Can’t fine the specs on these LED’s. Can you provide a part number?
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No like led lights bars. Two footers.
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I dont have any 2’ only 4’ at the moment.
Here is the lengths. In the pdf. I circled the ones you would need.
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If you are asking me tag me. Use the @preybird1 like this and then ask me. Or make sure you touch the the reply arrow on the bottom right of the screen your reading. Then i can touch your reply. And the screen moves to what you were replying to and shows me.
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I need to find me some waterproof photoboost strips if such a thing exists lol? Try to plan next crops upgrades
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These are very inexpensive boards $8 and up each. Drivers are big money. Hmmm waterproof.
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I’d like to use them to side/underlight my plants.
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I know it’s not the most efficient but I’m stuck w my number of plants for now
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Ok folks got some time off and completed the light! Sorre about the green wire its what i had. I forgoed the wego connectors and hardwired the entire light and i tinned each wire connection so the insert into board connector very easy.
I also wired in and external dimmer-potentiometer.
This is the lowest setting.
The highest.
I do not know how my pictures got out of order? I uploaded them in the order i built it to show the steps.
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Very cool! And nice spread of the boards. Did you use a fuse? Couldn’t see one in the photos.
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No need for a fuse. Its has a surge protector wired in parallel. And the driver is fail safe and reverse polarity protection. I tested it powered up and grounded the driver while it was runing and it functions well. It just shuts the light of if it shorts out.
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If anytone has questions on how to wire these drivers or light fixtures feel free to hit me up. This is now the 5th light i have built but this is the 1st of my own design and my own hand picked parts. I did all the research and learned all the info watched a lot of videos. Sourced all my own parts and jumped in with both feet and im glad i did because now i can build my own equipment and i understand how it works because “I” made it. So if you want to know how ask the person who made it. And a big shout out to… @BudBrother for helping with his parts list. This made it possible for me to learn enought to start dabbling into lights. THANKS @BudBrother your the man!
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Hey just saw this dont spend that crazy money on the emerson boards go to hlg and they have the same boards for alot less and tour light is not 650 watt it will only be 450 watts I have 2 of the same drivers they the hlg-480h-c2100b means 480 watts at 2100 milliamps is what is can push the drivers only have about a 90 to 93% efficiency meaning it may at max pull 480 watts from the wall but because of the conversation from ac to dc you only get 90 to 93% of that I would also recommend buying a dimmer from rapid if your only using the 1 driver theirs will work but if you get another one and want to tie the 2 drivers together you must buy a 50k ohm dimmer the one from rapid is a 100k ohm and wont work for 2 drivers
This is the rig I built 2020 aluminum rails 4 v3 red growmau5 pucks, 2 HLG 288 v2 rspec, 2 HLG 288 v2, 2 HLG far red flower initator boards, running on 2 hlg-480h-c2100b, with a hlg apc-12-700 driver for the far red strips these are the numbers in LUX that I get from the tops of my 6 plants and using a conversion calculator at only 450 watts from the wall I’m pulling over 600 ppfd
Convert Lux to PPFD - Online Calculator | Waveform Lighting here is the calculator
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The boards come in 5 different spectrums the 660 would be the deep red
https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/collections/quantum-boards/products/qb11-quantum-board
Then the far red 730 nm
Get 2 of the 660nl strips for 25 each then 4 far red at 9 each spending only 88 bucks plus drivers and shipping as opposed to 200 for 2 strips of the same thing run the 2 660 down the middle then the 4 730 in the corners that would be a sweet upgrade
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@xgx13xgx nice build i jave a lot more equipment to play with now also. now have 2 more lights i jus got today. And i just found a source for scrap aluminum sheets for more light builds
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Sweet only suggestion I would have is not to use sheets stick with rails only because think of a aluminum sheet like a kite in the wind you have air being pulled from the top and a sheet of aluminum will act like a kite adding resistance if you use rails it’s open and does not create that much resistance thus will help keep the lights cooler and will help better circulate air inside as opposed to a pocket
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Nice ideas. I wanted an eemerson effect board and exotic booster board from rapid led
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Impressive…just want to point out that the Mean Well driver will output a max 480W, which means (assuming your LEDs are drawing the full 480W) that you would be pulling more than 480W, as you mentioned efficiency is in the low 90%, so you might be pulling 520W-530W from the wall outlet.
Also a fuse is highly recommended guys, not trying to be a buzzkill here. If the input filter caps in the MW power supply were to short your house circuit breaker wouldn’t trip, but that supply would go up in flames - not good.
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Wouldn’t a surge protector do the trick???
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