It's not a great design amare has....cobs need to be hung higher than single diodes , kinda makes the single diodes a waste of money when you are hanging them as high as COBs. I'd just take the money you are using for those and get more cobs , use a different color temp if you want to vary spectrum.
Good point. This will be for mostly flowering, and I think the 300 watts from the 6 veros will be plenty for my 6 sq ft. These $1500 lights really make you feel like you're missing out on something when you build one with 6 cobs for $400
You could easily toss a 2 ft t5 uv lamp and a 2 ft t5 660nm lamp down the sides of your fixture and have a better fixture than any fancy smancy high dollar fixture
I hear the DIY'rs say its to much work & expensive. Might be able to get pre-made hard-strips. Thing is, bar isn't the ring. And there's a big difference.
I was looking at those as well they have all the colorsYou could easily toss a 2 ft t5 uv lamp and a 2 ft t5 660nm lamp down the sides of your fixture and have a better fixture than any fancy smancy high dollar fixture
Take a look at eye hortilux fs+uv lamp and the 660nm
I'm cutting it close on space with the sides as the closet is only 20" deep and my COB frame will be either 18" or 16" (1 cut or two) but what if I put them right in the middle of everything?You could easily toss a 2 ft t5 uv lamp and a 2 ft t5 660nm lamp down the sides of your fixture and have a better fixture than any fancy smancy high dollar fixture
Take a look at eye hortilux fs+uv lamp and the 660nm
Yeah i wanted to grab all the dif colors but i stopped myself lolI was looking at those as well they have all the colors
That is a sweet idea and cheap to pull off
Less than $100 and it fits perfectlyThat is a sweet idea and cheap to pull off
You dont have to use the 660nm,i just used that as an example because that was my choice.rhey have a bunch of dif spectrum i think up to like 720 or 740nm.but def use 1 of the fs+uv
I guess I should look at my data sheet and see what these 29 SEs are missing the most of
I think 660 is definitely the way to go since this will be for flower. The cool thing is, I can always exchange for a 420 later on if I want to veg under it as well. Thanks for the idea sixstring!
Make sure to read up on the eye horti site about all those dif spectrums in the power veg lineup.most of these white cobs tail off pretty hard around 640 -650nm but some of those spectrums will induce stretch and others will keep stuff shorter.i wanted some extra stretch because i dont like how short the cree 3500k keeps shit.
Even if you use cool white?
I can show you proof it is more than enough light for a 4.5x4.5
Sure. 400ppfd for that space. Some Chinese panels match that.
