igrowpot87
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Well when my plants hit day 13 of flower I'll take a another Pic. I'm still waiting for screenshots or links.
Anything but Mars hydro
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TreeFarmerCharlie
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Like I said earlier...I also thought my COBs were doing great until I built my new lights. They will give you good results but they won't give you the best results. I had no chance of hitting 1g/watt with cheap Chinese COBs and it took me a lot of grows to realize it was the lights that were holding me back. I gave you the model number of the strips...google it and you will very easily find Samsung's F-Series spec sheet.
igrowpot87
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do they need a driver or do they wire up directly to 220 or 110?
TreeFarmerCharlie
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They need a driver. Almost any quality LED needs a driver. The "driver on board" LEDs are usually cheaper and more prone to failure. Driver quality is just as important as LED quality and, it's worth repeating over and over that you get what you pay for with lighting. I know you are happy with what you have, so I'm not expecting to change your outlook on this, but I suspect that 6-12 months from now you will be saying the same thing I am to someone else who is using what you are using now.
igrowpot87
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Possibly, ill probably end up getting some crees and some drivers i wouldnt want those cob holders to go to waste now would I. id probably still mix them in with those strips if i were to get them. i need some strip lighting for my sides. its the nice thing about those cob holders is that you can put quality lights in them. I just didnt becuase it was cheaper and easier. and theres 1000's of good reviews on them.
TreeFarmerCharlie
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There are thousands of good reviews for garbage lights on Amazon, too, and that doesn't mean anything. Why would you go with better quality diodes for side lighting? Use the cheap COBs for side lighting and build better lights for the main lighting. If you upgrade you can use those COB holders for a veg tent. I kept one of my COB LED light assemblies as a back up and shipped another to a friend who is just getting started growing.
igrowpot87
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yeah i seen that too, i stopped buying lights off Amazon, its aliexpress now. those strips are a decent price. i seen that they came in 5000k but not 6500k id personally go 1 strip 6500k one strip 3000k for my setup. 5000k is good tho too. for 8 bucks each its not that bad. how many strips can 1 power supply power are you using a led dc power supply controller one of the higher power ones?
igrowpot87
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LRS-150-24 MEAN WELL USA Inc. | Power Supplies - External/Internal (Off-Board) | DigiKey
Order today, ships today. LRS-150-24 – Enclosed AC DC Converters 1 Output 24V - - - 6.5A 85 ~ 132 VAC, 170 ~ 264 VAC, 240 ~ 370 VDC Input from MEAN WELL USA Inc.. Pricing and Availability on millions of electronic components from Digi-Key Electronics.
TreeFarmerCharlie
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I built two four strip lights and each light is powered by a MeanWell XLG-240-H-AB
igrowpot87
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Now theres information everyone could use, wheres the like button?
TreeFarmerCharlie
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You can find a lot more info in this thread. It was started by someone else, but you can see what they did, and posts from me and others showing the different ways we built ours.
Samsung F Strip Build
I built this unit yesterday and since I can't show it to anyone personally, I am going to show it off here instead. It was very helpful for me to look at other builds and there is a ton of information on this website so thanks everyone. Overall Dimensions 37" x 24" Strips - 6 x Samsung F-Series...
www.rollitup.org
the problem was you, like many of us, were dupped. Fortunately I didn't bite on either Kind or Advanced
I am not a fan of panel type lights. Bars allow more airflow and room for humidity to escape
again, likely a large led factory that makes all kinds of led lights for all kinds of uses. Simply engage them to make lights for you and they will even slap a name on them and ship
PLUS, the so called Mars Factory rep (see post #1
still hasn't responded. Why do you think that is?
MarsHydrofactory
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budman111
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That LED looks cheap as fuck
StareCase
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So ... the efficacy and spectrum of their high end competitors leaves these lights in the dust - and the features they choose to market for over 2 minutes are daisy chaining and dimming?
Wow ... where can I get one?
Romulanman
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The only thing i buy from Mars now are their tents. I have bought four of them so far but only 2 have been delivered. More probs with that US warehouse. I just got one of the two 4x8's left. I'm sure I'll get an email stating they are out of stock now. I even emailed them to check the stock and they said yeah we have them in US. Let's see how long I wait. I've already been waiting for a month for 4x4.
MarsHydrofactory
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Dear Friend, is there anything misunderstanding? tell us your order number or PM us, we will ask the relative department to help you to address the issue. how about your ideas?
Waiting for your kind response to proceed.
Shape Shifter
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Here is my MH experience. Ordered a tent and a light. Website says 'in stock' at the time of order. Neither were in stock. Credit card charged full price at the time of order. I still think its shipping asap. Three days later someone from MH contacts me and tells me my items aren't in stock, but I can change my order to things I don't want. I stick with the items I ordered. I eventually get the order in two shipments. The order took more than a month to complete.
The light and tent work fine. Happy with the products so far. Not impressed with their customer service or dishonest sales tactics. This will affect who I order my next gear from.
The light and tent work fine. Happy with the products so far. Not impressed with their customer service or dishonest sales tactics. This will affect who I order my next gear from.
