The link you posted to was for white spectrum so its hard to evaluate what the difference would be.
As for strips: strips are great but its a loooooong job, and you wanna be 2 commited people for the work. One to hold the strip in place on your sinking while the other drills and cleans metal shavings with a highpower hover. For 14 tables its too much work. Maybe try one table, r2t has some nice strips with a second mono colors channel.
The fotops will work great for general easy work, you can run 3 over 1 tray or 5 over 2 trays next to eachother. The amount of drilling and connections is half. But you need a secure ceiling that will take the weight. Drawback with fotops is if you wanna mix in monos, its not easy to get it sufficiently even, and its hard to find 3 feet monostrips. Run your fotops between 150-200 w without sinking. Make sure you get the 280mm wide fotop, i think theres a narrower version now aswell.
The 560 board: easier to fit in any way you want, and adapts well with 2 foot strips. I would do 6 rather than 4 for better spread. That would also eliminate need for any sinking beyond some basic alu sheet. If you run these boars 4 a tray, 120w each they will need sinking for sure.
As for spectrum: id skip out on the 560 with extra diodes, they will usually be less quality than the whites and you can add this on later. In any case id make sure that i had my monos on a separate driver.
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this is what I got, I was leaning on these boards for cost purposes. I was planning on doing 4 per 4x4 table
id this what y’all was referring to from R2t strips. Didn’t really want to have to order strips just because of extra research on picking the right one. I know I wanted some uv and red on one strip instead of the just deep red and red I have now. Thanks guys didn’t know I would have to sink the 560 boards with 4boards and from the pic I can tell it would need to be more boards so the price difference isn’t that far apart now. Are fotops back in stock
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