Has anyone done a DIY light with Samsungs new SL-B8R5C9H2WW horticulture lights

Jesusgrowsmygrass

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• Jul 23, 2019

• #1

Hello all, I am thinking about building my next light and am looking hard at the samsung strips that came out recently and was wondering if anyone had any experience with them.

 

GBAUTO

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• Jul 23, 2019

• #2

Might be useful for veg lighting.

 

Rocket Soul

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• Jul 24, 2019

• #3

I dont know of anyone. The spectrum looks a bit off for flowering, its based around 5600k + 660 iirc. It might need a bit of far red to balance all that 660nm maybe mixing them with other warmer white strips or 90 cri bridgelux.

 

captainmorgan

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• Jul 24, 2019

• #4

The RW-150's were 100 watts of 5600k and 50 watts of 630nm and performed quite well for the time.

 

ANC

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• Jul 25, 2019

• #5

I did read a review by someone who did a grow with them recently, the response was severely underwhelmed.

 

Rocket Soul

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• Jul 25, 2019

• #6

ANC said:

I did read a review by someone who did a grow with them recently, the response was severely underwhelmed.

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The sammies or the rw150?

 

zypheruk

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• Jul 25, 2019

• #7

Use samsungs 301b white 3k and add some red strips on their own driver. Works well.

 

ANC

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• Jul 25, 2019

• #8

samsung horti strips, they are pretty expensive too.

I tried to explain the red light thing to my wife today... she's a non-scientist.
She looked at me perplexed and said questioningly, but your lights work fine...

 

BuddyColas

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• Jul 25, 2019

• #9

ANC said:

samsung horti strips, they are pretty expensive too.

I tried to explain the red light thing to my wife today... she's a non-scientist.
She looked at me perplexed and said questioningly, but your lights work fine...

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Most here like to endlessly adjust, tune, tweak spectrum, etc....but it's hard to argue with simple logic like that!

 

captainmorgan

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• Jul 25, 2019

• #10

ANC said:

samsung horti strips, they are pretty expensive too.

I tried to explain the red light thing to my wife today... she's a non-scientist.
She looked at me perplexed and said questioningly, but your lights work fine...

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Didn't have a come back for that did you lol.

 

ANC

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• Jul 25, 2019

• #11

More often than not my problem is the fucking things grow faster than I like.
This last run I had to tie bitches down sideways again, and it is not because of long nodes.
Realy a pain when you are running seed and have to wait for them to mature.
The only times the growth is a little slower is over winter... but they still grow well and healthy. I'have a largish grow room (compared to the canopy size), and it has no ceiling insulation and concrete floor and brick walls, so I'm not going to run a heater. I'm not growing at a commercial scale.