Dawamesk
Active Member
Hi all !
This is my first post and it's a pretty long one so here is a little track for you to make it less painful:
I'm a new european member of the forum willing to start a 100% organic indoor LED grow and I will probably need a couple of advices to bring success on my project.
I've read a lot of the threads dealing with LED DIY builds with CXAs which allowed me to gather a good ammount of knowledge already. Therefore I'd like to start by giving HUGE thanks to all the LED DIY gurus out there like SDS, SupraSPL, Gaius, Happy75 and all the others ! You guys did really spend time sharing your skills and expertise improving the community knowledge and we all owe you for what you've done so far ... this is really much appreciated !
So here we go, my project consists of growing the following babies (for a start) in a 2x2x5,3 tent for my own consumption:
My main concerns are:
- having a truly stealth/safe setup to have my mind free from stress when I'm not home (safe meaning electricaly safe and stealth meaining the less noisy possible)
- reaching a good 150-200grams of sweet flowers per harvest (but quality will definitely prevail on quantity here)
- having dimmable light source if not too complicated to build (not afraid of soldering but my elecrticity knowledge is quite poor)
- being able to clone my babies and have a couple of mother plants in a separate small grow box
To reach those goals I am planning on geeting some Cree 3000k CXA 3070. AB bin if possible but I will maybe end up using z2 bin cobs since those seem to be the only ones truly available nowadays (z2 are still ok to make a descent grow right ?).
Since it has to be the safest setup possible I'm thinking of using passive cooling (never fails) or well known reliable components only for active cooling. I guess 4x3070 cobs will be enough to light that room up and I 'd like to have each cob separately mounted onto heatsinks (no pannel here) to be able to play with light distribution and ajust the height and be as close to the canopee as possible (yes I will probably grow multiple type of strains at the same time).
My grocery list (for the most important items and to be updated shortly):
- 4 cree 3000k CXA 3070 cobs for the main tent and an extra one for clone/mother plants
- this kind of heatsinks if i go passive cooling (1 per cob):
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-pcs-up-to-100W-Watt-LED-Aluminium-Heatsink-Round-XXL-10W-20W-30W-45W-50W/1397878241.html
- this kind of heatsink+fan if i can't go passive cooling:
http://www.arctic.ac/us_en/alpine-11-gt-rev-2.html
- Meanwell drivers, 1 per cob:
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2101315_-1
Now a few questions for the experts:
1 - Provided that I drive the 3070 z2 at 60w 1050mA current will 4 of them be enough to ligth up that space and reach the 150-200grams I expect ?
2 - are the passive cooling heatsinks I've choosen good to keep the cobs at a descent temperature or is there maybe other heatsinks you guys could know of that will be more effective ?
3 - are the active cooling choosen fans reliable enough not to fail too easily ? In other words: do you know other types of fans well known to be highly reliable and more secure ?
4 - for the clone/mother box is it better to run 5000K cob rather than 3000k and will a single 3070 be enough for that purpose ?
5 - do you know drivers that could be more safe to use than the selected ones ?
You can be sure I have another thousand questions in mind but I don't want to flood you guys so I'll keep them for another time ... of course when you have remarks on the overall thing or maybe on some smaller details don't hesitate to throw them at my newbie's face shouting WHAT THE FUCK YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING YOU DANGEROUS WANNABE LED BUILDER cause I won't complain ;p
One last thing, I will do my best to update this thread as often as possible trying to give back to the community what I've learned from it (even though the ratio will definitely not be well balanced
)
OK that's enough, let's call it a post !
PEACE
Dawamesk.
This is my first post and it's a pretty long one so here is a little track for you to make it less painful:
I'm a new european member of the forum willing to start a 100% organic indoor LED grow and I will probably need a couple of advices to bring success on my project.
I've read a lot of the threads dealing with LED DIY builds with CXAs which allowed me to gather a good ammount of knowledge already. Therefore I'd like to start by giving HUGE thanks to all the LED DIY gurus out there like SDS, SupraSPL, Gaius, Happy75 and all the others ! You guys did really spend time sharing your skills and expertise improving the community knowledge and we all owe you for what you've done so far ... this is really much appreciated !
So here we go, my project consists of growing the following babies (for a start) in a 2x2x5,3 tent for my own consumption:
My main concerns are:
- having a truly stealth/safe setup to have my mind free from stress when I'm not home (safe meaning electricaly safe and stealth meaining the less noisy possible)
- reaching a good 150-200grams of sweet flowers per harvest (but quality will definitely prevail on quantity here)
- having dimmable light source if not too complicated to build (not afraid of soldering but my elecrticity knowledge is quite poor)
- being able to clone my babies and have a couple of mother plants in a separate small grow box
To reach those goals I am planning on geeting some Cree 3000k CXA 3070. AB bin if possible but I will maybe end up using z2 bin cobs since those seem to be the only ones truly available nowadays (z2 are still ok to make a descent grow right ?).
Since it has to be the safest setup possible I'm thinking of using passive cooling (never fails) or well known reliable components only for active cooling. I guess 4x3070 cobs will be enough to light that room up and I 'd like to have each cob separately mounted onto heatsinks (no pannel here) to be able to play with light distribution and ajust the height and be as close to the canopee as possible (yes I will probably grow multiple type of strains at the same time).
My grocery list (for the most important items and to be updated shortly):
- 4 cree 3000k CXA 3070 cobs for the main tent and an extra one for clone/mother plants
- this kind of heatsinks if i go passive cooling (1 per cob):
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-pcs-up-to-100W-Watt-LED-Aluminium-Heatsink-Round-XXL-10W-20W-30W-45W-50W/1397878241.html
- this kind of heatsink+fan if i can't go passive cooling:
http://www.arctic.ac/us_en/alpine-11-gt-rev-2.html
- Meanwell drivers, 1 per cob:
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2101315_-1
Now a few questions for the experts:
1 - Provided that I drive the 3070 z2 at 60w 1050mA current will 4 of them be enough to ligth up that space and reach the 150-200grams I expect ?
2 - are the passive cooling heatsinks I've choosen good to keep the cobs at a descent temperature or is there maybe other heatsinks you guys could know of that will be more effective ?
3 - are the active cooling choosen fans reliable enough not to fail too easily ? In other words: do you know other types of fans well known to be highly reliable and more secure ?
4 - for the clone/mother box is it better to run 5000K cob rather than 3000k and will a single 3070 be enough for that purpose ?
5 - do you know drivers that could be more safe to use than the selected ones ?
You can be sure I have another thousand questions in mind but I don't want to flood you guys so I'll keep them for another time ... of course when you have remarks on the overall thing or maybe on some smaller details don't hesitate to throw them at my newbie's face shouting WHAT THE FUCK YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING YOU DANGEROUS WANNABE LED BUILDER cause I won't complain ;p
One last thing, I will do my best to update this thread as often as possible trying to give back to the community what I've learned from it (even though the ratio will definitely not be well balanced
)OK that's enough, let's call it a post !
PEACE
Dawamesk.
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