Water cooled COB Build/pic heavy

Organic Miner

Organic Miner

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Godfather420 said:
Good looking Organic! How are the 1212's treating you? Color and CRI please?
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I got the 3500K/80. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to build them yet. Put the house on the market and moved. New house ready in another month, I will rebuild my grow room. Hence, why I am interested in water cooling, since I get a chance to start over!

When I am up and running, I will start a thread.
 
qballizhere

qballizhere

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Godfather420 said:
What color and CRI are you rocking now and what are you buying in a few days?
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3000k and I went with the 80 cri that was was in stock at the time. I bought the drivers heat sinks holders and reflectors for the whole room but I only got half the cobs for the room. waiting for the paycheck so I can order the other 24.
I also decided to make an automation lighting panel and I should be firing it up for the first time this weekend. Then its sitting down and programming the driver software and each individual driver.
 
Godfather420

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qballizhere said:
I had been running my hps system almost 3 years so it was time to upgrade reflectors and ballasts
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Ive been running mine for 15 years.. 10 years on digital ballasts.. I just finally had last ballast crap out on me. The rest made it 8+ years. Can't say enough good things about those purple monsters.
 
Godfather420

Godfather420

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Organic Miner said:
I got the 3500K/80. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to build them yet. Put the house on the market and moved. New house ready in another month, I will rebuild my grow room. Hence, why I am interested in water cooling, since I get a chance to start over!

When I am up and running, I will start a thread.
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Please do, I'll stay up on this page, and plan on showing how to make net zero grow rooms! boyar! And least thats what I dream about while laying awake at night thinking about growing skunk!
 
Godfather420

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qballizhere said:
3000k and I went with the 80 cri that was was in stock at the time. I bought the drivers heat sinks holders and reflectors for the whole room but I only got half the cobs for the room. waiting for the paycheck so I can order the other 24.
I also decided to make an automation lighting panel and I should be firing it up for the first time this weekend. Then its sitting down and programming the driver software and each individual driver.
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It's funny how not ordering exactly( due to small stock what we want seems to be protocol for these unless you're willing to wait a month...
When you speak of controls on the ELG's are you referring to the dali interface?
 
qballizhere

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basically once it is set up it will run the program continually lights on 8am @40% and increase so much until high noon then decrease for sunset oh yea I will also have 660nm and 720nm for a sunrise and sunset effect.
 
Jaybodankly

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Some beautiful machining work. My simple end caps I made up for 2"x3" aluminum stock. Used a drill press and tablesaw for machining. You can use a two part metal epoxy to join. I sized the tubing to fit regular garden hose. The metal tube is offset to the top in case of leak. It will leave water in the aluminum stock.
 

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Godfather420

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Jaybodankly said:
Some beautiful machining work. My simple end caps I made up for 2"x3" aluminum stock. Used a drill press and tablesaw for machining. You can use a two part metal epoxy to join. I sized the tubing to fit regular garden hose. The metal tube is offset to the top in case of leak. It will leave water in the aluminum stock.
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Yeah, I seen that a lil while ago! Way to make it happen! If you were able to size that garden hose down a bit, you could. a 600w light needs about 1.4-1.9gpm of fluid running through it and a 3/8" line will flow that easy. I like the idea offsetting the return from the end of the light (SUPPLY is the name for the line going into the light, RETURN would be the exit) for safety sake...Also, by accident you created a way for the air that can get trapped in the cooling tube to be able to escape. Nice!
 
Godfather420

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CobKits said:
well its hard to cover all chip sizes and flavors. stocking chips in a falling price market is a death sentence for a small business. I still have CXBs i paid far more than i can sell them for now
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Totally understood! :cool: Was just commenting, but thanks for keeping it real!
I was eyeballing the 90 cri 3000 1818....you got 27, i need 54..whats the backorder wait time on those babies
 
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