Thank you, hopefully someone in the future will find it useful. Strip lighting is reborn and giving everything a run for its money, look at Robin and Steve, even with good strips available before that, they really drove alot of recent want.....
I am trying to keep at around 50% efficiency, also makes my old drivers usable.....but I noticed that the 3k strips are more efficienct than the higher Kelvin, not by much, but if the LER is the same as other bridgelux offering the 5k 560 strips for example are about 4% less efficient than the same 3k at any current, usually it is the inverse.....
I am thinking of doing a complete 4x4 flower tent with all 3k 1160mm strips....x20 x 22 @500mA....that should put me around 400 watts and still 700+ppfd....
also, I need to do an actual TC measurement, but a close one last night had me about 1 degree Celsius over Ambient right on the board material itself. The heatsinks were almost cold...
.1/8 inch 6060 U Channel
.1/4 inch L Channel
.3 mm Steel rivets [I drilled out a bunch of aluminum ones that had too much flex}