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Sorry I was vague, the boards still work flawlessly. I just had to chop my last plants in mid flower due to an inspection in my apartment. If I try another grow here, I will for sure use the highlights over the other leds I have.

Not fully relevant, but figured I'd share this little Mason jar bokashi ferment type thing I did. Made a quiche a couple weeks ago, so had like 10 egg shells at once. Rinsed them then put them in the oven for a little while. Soaked the egg carton in a little water with a of em1. Strained out...

I was just talking to an Oklahoma fan the other day at work. Seemed excited about the season so I wish you all luck if you're football fans. So my worms are loving some avocado seeds right now. Two different seeds, one they crawling on, the other they are balled inside the actual seed. Thought...

I have a similar sized tent, 2.5x2ft, and I got two highlight boards from https://growlightsaustralia.com/ Only got to do a grow and a half with them, but was really happy with the results. You could hit up @Grow Lights Australia and see if they have any suggestions within your budget. Customer...

For sure man. I'm glad my first build was just a couple boards. Super simple and helped things click a little bit more so after actually doing it all start to finish. Wish you the best though and hope it all works out well.

Nice, glad I made sense to someone for a change.. Yea those drivers should work just fine. Again, I'm not the most knowledgeable source and didn't look up the qb volt specs when run at 1400ma, but I'm assuming you'd be around 100ish volts for the 2 boards in series for roughly 140 watts total...

It'll come down to your personal preference, but qbs should work fine too. I have two boards I use and that was as simple as could be to set up. I havent built any actual fixtures with strips, but about to dive into that and it is going to be more planning/work like rocket just said. As far as...

I'm sure you can find a nice match for those drivers. Maybe look at the bridgelux eb gen3 90cri options as a possibility though. It seems like you could wire up some of the 4 foot strips in a 3Series/2Parallel configuration. So you could put like 6 of those strips for +/-160 watts per driver...

Haha for sure its gonna be overkill, but lots of room to crank things up if/when the time comes. I'm still waiting to purchase a house, so figure stocking up on some things now won't hurt as money will be getting a little tighter soon. Plus, this kind of stuff helps take me away from the...

I ended up just buying 5 of these baking sheets https://www.webstaurantstore.com/bakers-mark-full-size-16-gauge-18-x-26-wire-rim-aluminum-bun-sheet-pan/407FULL16G.html Really just kind of winging it with these fixtures I'm gonna slap together, but these sheets seemed pretty versatile for the...

Curious to see what route you go for heatsinking/framing. What size area are you trying to cover with these builds? I'm still trying to figure out my plan for my cheap strip purchases. Baking sheets seem to be a cheap and easy option for what I have in mind, but would like to see what other...

I'm with you there man. I figured understanding a few basic points was good enough for now. A lot of stuff goes right over my head, but thankfully we have people herea who can help to try and inch us along in the whole scheme of things.

I figured I was off somewhere in my attempt at trying to help. Thanks for dropping some more knowledge for us though. I feel I have a little clearer understanding of it now as well. As always, much appreciated.

For sure, I have a few random blurple drivers too and they're nice to play around with. Helps being able to actually see and do some things instead of reading and picturing the end result, at least for me. I'm not sure exactly what you're shooting for, but maybe multiple smaller...

So when I first wired it up, I turned the vo (volts) all the way up and the io (current) all the way down. I then plugged it in and slowly turned the current up until I saw the watts from the wall I would use as the absolute max, the hlg 185 a goes beyond even the 200 I limited it to but figured...

Check out ledgardener website, lots of good info/videos on drivers over there. My understanding is that the voltage can be "set" so that if a board/strip fails, the driver will be limited to that specific voltage instead of increasing since more current will be available to the remaining...

I have done straight ewc/amendments as a topdress before and ran into the dry crusty top layer before like @youraveragehorticulturist pointed out above. For me, mixing in some fresh soil along with the ewc/amendments helped keep things a bit more consistent, less "muddy" when watering and less...

That's what was hanging me up on grabbing some of the 2700k ones I got. Wasn't sure if the large dip in efficiency made it a worthwhile venture, but in the end I figured that running each strip around/under 10 watts per would still give some benefit, albeit not very efficiently, to the whole red...

I was just looking at some options on how to mount and set these strips up too. I need to do my research on how hard these can run for minimal sinking as well though. Look forward to seeing what you and others come up with since a lot of people scooped these up. I was looking at doing...

I'm excited to see the new products coming out. Was asking teknik about his blues not too long ago and really liked what he was saying. Hopefully the new GLA boards and some blue buddies roll out around the same time. One day ill stop smoking too much and get around to buying a house instead...