LED strip Lords. I need your guidance.

Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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GiveMeKnowledge

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Airwalker16 said:
I'd get the $10 strips all in 3000k. Unless you're set on having added reds on yours.

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SSK-1560ZGE-30CR Midpower Led Strip - Cutter Electronics

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With them being single strips I though maybe I’d need twice as many? With the added reds would it not be a better spectrum for a flower board? I know the sammie strips are held in pretty high regard aswell as the nichia strips although slightly more expensive.
 
Airwalker16

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GiveMeKnowledge said:
With them being single strips I though maybe I’d need twice as many? With the added reds would it not be a better spectrum for a flower board? I know the sammie strips are held in pretty high regard aswell as the nichia strips although slightly more expensive.
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Well, those strips can out out 9K lumens but 16 of em would do a 4x4 real nicely. 2 22x44" fixtures. HLG-320H-48A on each one powering 8 strips. Very sweet lights
 
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loco41 said:
futureelectronics has both the 80cri and 90cri gen3 4k strips in stock, roughly $6 and $7 each respectively. I know you looking for a smaller number of strips than the minimum 20 required on their site. Maybe you could find some other use for the remaining left over strips. Just figured id try to help since I have gathered a lot of information through you over the past few months.

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BXEB-L0560Z-40E2000-C-C3 in Tray by Bridgelux | Linear Mid Power LED Modules | Future Electronics

EB Series Gen 3 2ft 4000K 80CRI 2700lm 200lm/W
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My 20 strips arrived yesterday, still need to check that they are the BXEB-L1120Z-27G4000-C-C3's, but looking good so far. That'll be ~$438 for strips and HLG drivers for 825 watts (name plate values, so +10% or more in practice) and 155lum/watt but with cri 90. Would have rather had 3000k but I think 2700k is close enough ... and I didn't have to buy 100 4ft strips.
 
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XtraGood said:
My 20 strips arrived yesterday, still need to check that they are the BXEB-L1120Z-27G4000-C-C3's, but looking good so far. That'll be ~$438 for strips and HLG drivers for 825 watts (name plate values, so +10% or more in practice) and 155lum/watt but with cri 90. Would have rather had 3000k but I think 2700k is close enough ... and I didn't have to buy 100 4ft strips.
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Nice man, hope it all worked out ok for you. Looking back, I wish I would have grabbed the 3k 90cri 2 footers too, but I am sure I will be happy with the 4000k that I got. I am hoping it will be pretty versatile for whatever application I end up using it for. I put my strip build on hold for now though. I just have 0 space to use it in right now and need to get myself a house before the end of the year, so gonna put all the fun little hobby things to the side for now and figure out the end of the year first. Would love to see your build though and hear how you like them. Best of luck with the build and grows though sir.
 
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It will be pretty simple, all angle aluminum with the driver not mounted to the fixture. I'm pretty sure 4000k will do well when you get to it! Hope the year goes well for you. I would love to see your stuff in the future as well!
 
Rocket Soul

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XtraGood said:
My 20 strips arrived yesterday, still need to check that they are the BXEB-L1120Z-27G4000-C-C3's, but looking good so far. That'll be ~$438 for strips and HLG drivers for 825 watts (name plate values, so +10% or more in practice) and 155lum/watt but with cri 90. Would have rather had 3000k but I think 2700k is close enough ... and I didn't have to buy 100 4ft strips.
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I like 2700k 90cri + some blue sup for a full cycle light. By adding just 10% blue your level are near to 4000k (but with out the green which also plays a role). This means also you can customise your blue channel, making it wider with 420 400 even some uv.

One of the benefits of this is that blues (and whites) are much less sensitive to heat than adding red monos. I also believe having as much red and far red (within reason) in your white spectrum is a better solution. Flower spectrum + wide blue channel for full cycle FTW.
 
Rocket Soul

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XtraGood said:
How many watts (or amps) will a SI-B8T521560WW take before it needs heat sinking?
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With those prices this should not be run much harder than nominal. Personally i like 20w per 2 ft strip in general, seems like a good measure of heat for something this size. Running last years diodes soft is an excellent way of reaching efficiency and has other advantages aswell. Dont sit and wait on this deal it will prob not last, at least per what weve seen. Just make sure they are the real deal and not old gens
 
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Airwalker16 said:
Can any of y'all give me the part#s to the CHEAPEST 4' Strips available? I would have used the 2' arrow strips for $4.90 but or course, they've jumped back up to $26. Ya snooze ya loose I guess.
I just have to e thoughts about inter canopy lighting to get the buds more light. 2' strips might actually be best honestly to use per site of the 8 bucket RDwC. But let me know if you have the cheapest strips part #s.

Thanks guys!
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Cutter usually has the creek chips pretty cheap
 
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Well rather than use strips I bit the bullet and used a single 1.6a driver to power 6 CXB3590s in series for 9watts each. 18w per heatsink.
I couldn't stand the 4' fluorescent LED tubes anymore. It was getting to obnoxious. Could never get light down to the new ones while mothers were in there tall as shit.
So these are out of the ecosunlite tear apart and some of you might remember me using them for underside lighting. I can't believe I was pushing 35w through each of the 6 cobs/70 per heatsink on a 240-2100 split into 2 parallels. The one driver yesterday got the 2 cobs at 56w hot as HELL. So I just split that one driver over them all. I'm sooooo much happier. This has been years in the making to do something like this for each individual Aero container.
Things are gonna grow a LOT quicker now.
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