I hate giving advice, but...... personally I could flower if there were 4x strips or 8x strips or 12x strips....but intensity and strains will vary.
Thanks, It is my first build, just need a place to start. It think I've researched myself into circles.I hate giving advice, but...... personally I could flower if there were 4x strips or 8x strips or 12x strips....but intensity and strains will vary.
3500k is fine for veg/flower. They all work veg/flower 2700k, 3k, 3500k 4000, 5000 even 6500k. Some use a combo of multiple K temps...
How about this....if you ran 4x strips at 1050ma....It will use the same power roughly as running 8x strips @500ma...but the 8x strips will be putting out a bit more PPF and less of the heat is light energy........running lower currents [amps] almost always makes a light diode more efficient, referred to as running "soft". HTH
Not too burst your bubble either, but then, we need to find the QER which is what the diode will emit as 100% efficiency/watt and compare that to the figure you are receiving from your amperage at running....Then, you need the umol/ joule to multiply against the ration of the Efficiency/ QER to get the PPF.....then we can start comparing output....You cannot compare Lumens / watts, especially across different Kelvin temps....People get lazy, use it as an easy guideline and people who don't know how it works, now assume a different meaning....
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Lumens alone is not a good figure for comparison, alone, but PPF is. Photosynthetic Photon Flux.
In their defense, I am riled up a little and pushing buttons. But still.....
I never said you were an asshole and im a sarcastic smartass its just the way i am. I meant it in a joking way cause to me it felt like, one guy asking another how to multiply, and a third showing up and trying to explain calculus and quantum mechanics. Take it however you like but if what i said offends you my advice is to get some thicker skin, cause it was never intended that way.
Do you know how to properly gauge lumens per watt? Would you like some help. I am not an island. I put out many positive posts, I hope. But I am also a snarky human being too. behind the facade of digital bliss. 0110110
I don't get it I guess? You took it as a shot 1st. Maybe it is you that needs thicker skin? You brought me into this, I was bringing maff.
Again, what makes you think im mad? I quite enjoy poking fun at people who take things abit too seriously. You yourself admitted you were riled up and pushing buttons. Relax, go smoke a fatty or something. I never called you an asshole, and im not butthurt and im not going to reply again cause this is a moronic exercise in futility. Just realize i pushed your button back.
So thats a no?
What driver were you planning on using?
Not sure on the driver, but I am assuming it will be a meanwell. The space is MAX 2x2 and am planning a one plant Scrog. If all goes well I have plenty of room to expand.
Awesome advice, concise and to the point without a 3 paragraph math lesson, thanks buddy!
If I had a "Do-Over" button, I would sure go with the 90 cri now. Doing the math (I'll save the wall of words on that one), the 90 cri puts out about the same amount of photons as the 80 cri. It is just that more of them are outside of the conventional PAR window of 400-700 nm. But weed doesn't have a PAR meter and it seems to really like the peak about 630nm and all those photons above 700 nm. I, like many, am waiting for the harvest weights from the Dawg's side-by-side.
Thanks man, and yea i threw that little dig in there towards you know who just for a laugh. Some people have good intentions but just like hearing the sound of their own voice and cant take a sarcastic joke about it. For now im going with the eb strips, future expansions maybe QB's but the lack of supply combined with smartass replies from the creators has me not ordering there for now. Here's hoping a whole bunch of competition makes those samsung 561c's common and cheap on boards.
I have been hanging out in this section of RIU for about 4ish years, and there are some really sharp guys in the LED section. Guys like, "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you." Those kind a guys. Anyway, fortunately, you don't have to have an extensive background in math to build and work with LEDs.
What's not to like!
Yep, and all i did was make a fairly innocent joke about it and dude got bent out of shape thinking i called him an asshole or something. Maybe he reads these replies and gets it was an innocent eye rolling laugh with no ill will.I have been hanging out in this section of RIU for about 4ish years, and there are some really sharp guys in the LED section. Guys like, "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you." Those kind a guys. Anyway, fortunately, you don't have to have an extensive background in math to build and work with LEDs.
I don't think the 561c strips or boards are worth the price premium. The H-series strips are close to double the price of the EB strips and the EB strips are about 91% as efficient as the H-series strips when run as soft as the H-series strips. And the EBs are rigid, easy to mount, easy to cool, 3 different lengths, relatively cheap, AND (wait there's more) there available!
My 2 cents worth...don't get in a pissing contest with anybody. You'll be a lot happier.