yeah i see it now. cool tech. no, the lord provided them with 30000 lux today, try maybe 35000 tomorrow. look fine so far. speaking of cheap LEDs, i see ppl on here suggesting other ideas for a package and im thinking i love my lights but wouldnt mind buying maybe some cheaper ones too. for veg...
cool conversion trick right there. i'll keep it in mind for sure. turned it up to 30' today and all looking good. man you gotta just love these lights, im insanely impressed. was gonna buy like a solarflare or something but i saw the mau5 on the tube and you know seemed complicated and all.. so...
yeah i figure so too. put the lights in last saturday or so but i tell you, not claiming to be an expert or anything, especially at happiness, but them plants look way happier already. the buds are starting to swell up and though theyre due i ascribe it to the cobs. stoked
thx man, ill turn up...
man it would be a whole different game if they could use that much light. im like half way into flowering now...stoked! meter reads 39000 lux 12 inches below, and like i said the canopy is at like 25000. think i should try 50 out tomorrow for a couple of hours and see what they say?
hi guys
i went out and bought myself a light meter today. not PAR, only lux but still. so i got my lights like 40 inches from the canopy and the meter reads 25000 lux. rigged up the old light (no brand chinese burple) and took a reading of it at the same distance. it read 9000 lux, and that was...
hey what up guys
got the lights up and running and i am stoked!
they runpretty cool. lowered the temps in the cab from like 27 to 25c. put a thermometer on top of the pins and have been monitoring them pretty anally; never been warmer than 36c, typically like 33
so i...
hey whats up trapgod
the nutes/water circulates all the time in this kind of system. i have played around a little bit with shutting the circ pump off intermittently due to heat problems but i wouldnt wanna do it too long. pumps do go out, so to play it safe you might wanna keep a spare around...
guys, they ask if i want a linear or a logarithmic potentiometer. does it matter?
@sixstring2112 yeah, i checked plc out, will be buying a driver from them. thanks pal!
yeah, ive seen it bobby_g but its a hassle for me to get,it here and im kinda anxious to get the lamps up and running asap. so any chance i could,use a regular dimmer?
hey th8anks dr airwalker16, theyre working now and man, are they bright! gonna fry my ladies for sure. how about using a regular household dimmer, like one for halogen lamps - think that would work?
thanks again, db
guys, i conncted dc+ (red cable) to minus on the first cob, then plus to minus on the rest of the cobs and lastly plus to dc- (black cable) on the driver, and it doesnt fire. have i done something wrong? i havejust insulated the dimmer cables. arghhh, wanted to impress the wife! pls help!
hi guys!
can anyone advice where to buy a dimmer for this the mau5-kit and which driver to buy if i want to run only one or two of the cobs. sorry for not thanking appropriately for the help earlier but i was waiting for answers from cutter and thought i would share my findings with the...
Hi guys! I bought the growmau5 kit with the LGSU-1400D driver. I need to buy a dimmer for it, so can anyone recommend which one and from which site? Need to have it rather quickly, otherwise i could have bought it from Ali i guess.
appreciate any and all help :)
Hey Mark
thanks for all the help with selecting the driver, and for including it and the dimmers in the same package. I sure appreciate it and i will make sure I do business with you fucking hacks again, i promise...