BCBlondes LED Grow Lights Official Thread

BCBLondesLEDGrowLights

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Hello everyone. We are proud to announce that we are now an official sponsor of RollItUp!

This thread will be for all things BCB.

We are based out of Kelowna BC Canada (about 3 hours northeast of Vancouver)

We started building and selling LED grow lights over 5 years ago, originally on Ebay.

My name is Graham, my nickname is Grip, and I have been growing since 2002. I am a chonically ill medical patient myself, and I got into building/researching LED grow lights because I needed something better than HPS technology, and every LED that was being sold was a complete ripoff and under performed.
Our lights have always been priced well under the competition, for one reason and one reason only, IM SICK OF SEEING MEDICAL PATIENTS GETTING RIPPED OFF!

I have always used large grow rooms with co2. My old HPS setups ranged from 20,000 watts to 60,000 watts with large air conditioners and co2 supplementation.

I currently use all BCBlondes fixtures in our test lab, other than specific lights we are testing our BCB fixtures against.

You can find us on social media here:

Facebook: BC Blondes
Instagram: BC Blondes Grow Lights (without spaces)

I will be posting data relevant to our lights, like par maps, 3rd party testing results, grow pics from our test lab, and anything else relevant to our product lineup, here in this thread.

I welcome you to ask any questions you have in this thread, and have a look at our product lineup at our website.

Thank you!
 

PSUAGRO.

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Nice Pirg, finally ponied up for some sphere testing . 2.52 umol/j, should be noted 380-780nm bumps up the #s vs some others. No test results for the big fixture? Interesting same umol/j on your chart

Why active on Sammie mid power? What happens if a fan fails ?lol
 
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BCBLondesLEDGrowLights

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Nice Pirg, finally ponied up for some sphere testing . 2.52 umol/j, should be noted 380-780nm bumps up the #s vs others. No test results for the big fixture? Interesting same umol/j on your chart

Why active on Sammie mid power? What happens if a fan fails ?lol
380-780 is what hlg is using. So I think that's good enough justification.

"The big fixture" is just 2 of the small fixtures, its a modular system.

The fans are on their own switch, if you don't have an auxillary fan in your tent, then use the fans on the board. This keeps the heatsink at 33C and provides a bump in efficiency.

nothing happens if a fan fails, it will run just fine with out fans, but runs more efficient when the active cooling is on. Theres lots of guys running tents way too hot, this gives a bit more functionality, the power supply for the fans is a meanwell as well.

Thanks
 

coreywebster

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Nice one on becoming an advertiser.
Do you have any links showing side by sides against DE HPS or anyone in the process of doing so?
 

BCBLondesLEDGrowLights

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Well some of us have some DIY fixtures we can put up against for a side by side comp. Lol.
DIY is awesome, that's how I started. We are offering the DIY parts on our website, although right now we only have the printed circuit boards for sale, soon ill have the power supply and heatsink in a kit, on the site for the DIY guys, and the prices will be awesome ! thanks for chiming in
 

BCBLondesLEDGrowLights

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So you didn't test the larger one then? Modular or not, more power effects ambient; system efficacy

I do like the aux fan toggle option, good job
Didn't test 2 of the 340 boards at once, didn't see any point.

Thanks, some of the other guys are running their stuff at near max heat (around 60C), and im just not comfortable doing that, specially knowing a lot of guys are running HOT tents, well above 25C which is the testing condition. You see guys on IG running tent temps in the 85+ range, that's 29.4C+, with out fans on their boards they are losing a lot of efficiency, IMO.

Oh and the fans+ driver only use 3 watts per 340 watt board, so that's 6 watts total on a 680 light. Its not a big deal wattage wise...
 
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