SomeGuy's LED & Other Grows. 2014-15 Season

Fireball and Hammer looks so awesome! Damn thats frosty..

Those look great! I really need to get on that LED build.

Are you doing a single LED for veg in that tent, or did you end up building that one to go all the way through flower as well?

The LED tent is for vegging a few weeks and then through flower. I use two bars for veg. three in flower. Its versatile. I will eventually build another LED fixture for flowering a 3x3 and probably some veg lights too. Just takes time and $$$ LOL

Nice! What would you suggest at this point in time for both the flower and veg bars up in 3x3 tents?

damn fine work SG

Well.. I have a drawing for a 540w panel fixture with Vero 18. I think its in this thread. The fixture is 2'x2' and I was thinking 3x3 tent. However.. it is a bit much on the wattage IMO. 400w would be fine for a 3x3. so I was driving the cobs at 30w for a 540w fixture.. They could be driven at 20 or 50 as well...
over 40w psqft is not doing much for you.

yes... driven at 20w each piece would be 360w. so That is right at 40w psqft if you did this cob layout at 20w each piece.

Hope you don't mind if I steal your design. I'm still researching some drivers, but had decided to do the Vero 18s for my build.

Steal as you like. It would be hard for you to copy me 100% based on these anyway.. I have plans for a cool case etc.. muahhahhahahah.. LOL sorry.... thats my stoned mad scientist laugh.

Some friend of mine dropped a bunch of weed on me. RSO caps all around.. LOL

HydroGp said:

Hey SG.
Seems like you got good experience with the led's, hope you will look at this and let me know if you think it is okay..
432w Spider COB LED
I have a m8 wanting to buy 10 of these to use for flowering. Wanted my aproval but i know shit about led's and searching i found a few test growers but so new they are still in veg..
Thanks

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Didnt see this before but I responded in the 600 anyway. I would wait or invest in apache tech/ a51. I think manufactured cob fixtures are coming soon. Hell if i am designing lights someone with a company is for sure right.. LOL

Probably not after seeing you show us how to make LEDs ourselves or have you do it!

LOL! I owe you one MO. If you need help with trimming and processing this season LMK and I will come out for a day and send the wife and kids to Dland. I am a pretty awesome trim machine.. LOL

Its true I can build lights. But we are talking for like one or two people at a time maybe. Plus they arent really "cheap".. LOL My led bar fixture design would be like 450-500 per bar. The big panel fixture design would be around 1400. Its alot of this and that on top of the basic parts and a ton of time to build them right. Although this is cheaper than current top end panels for what you are getting it still is a helluva lot more $$ than a cheap chinese led panel.

My only real argument is look at what they can do... I show it in my own garden. Im not a hack or fake. I just want people to see what is possible. I encourage people to DIY if they are able. Its the best to gain independence and freedom in the mind. self learning is a large part of setting yourself free IMO.

OK dude....how many watts in that tent all together?

LOL, those ladies do *not* appear to be wanting, at all.

:0)

JD

Javadog said:

OK dude....how many watts in that tent all together?

LOL, those ladies do *not* appear to be wanting, at all.

:0)

JD

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I am running 500w of led in the 4x4 tent. Thats it. a kessil 150 red runs for 30minutes a day....so there is that.
I am redesigning the bars so I it will go up to about 600w in the 4x4. That should give me 1k results I imagine.

I am also running a 3x3 tent with a 400w cmh vertically.

So two flower tents and running less than 1000w for both. Veg is less than 80w for veg and clone. Add fans n junk for it all and I have maybe 1400w total in the grow total I would think.

I must do this. Cali makes me.

:0)

JD

P.S. This will have to come after some dough is piled up tho.

It is worth the initial cost JD. I plan on replacing the cmh with around 300 or so watts of led eventually too. I would love to be right about a 1000w with two lights and minimal cooling. I think I can even run one cooling fan for both tents when I change over. That would free up my second fan/filter setup to just scrub air in the shed.

What's your thoughts on individual heat sinks vs the big blocks? Just curious. I know I ran across some like the SynJets which have some that are geared specifically around the Vero series COBs and even have the fans designed to sit on top of the heat sink.

Well... When I rebuild to a more finished product I will be using big heatsinks and minimal fans. Much better design wise and safety wise IMO.

The Fireballs though...