Super simple single board veg light.

[TerrapinBlazin]

I ordered another one of these Atreum 288.2 lm310b boards and just put it on a 120h-54a driver. Atreum seems to be a really legit competitor to HLG. They’re based out of Seattle and I’ve reached out to them. Super nice guys.

I love how cheap and easy it is to build lights using these boards. It’s just a solder splice and heatshrink wire harness with a length of landscape wire between the driver and the board so the driver can sit anywhere. I built all that while I was waiting for the board and driver to come in so it only took 10 minutes to actually assemble the light today.

I can’t believe how bright a single one of these boards is. I turned it on and pointed it into my living room and it was like daylight in there.

 

[TerrapinBlazin]

Well this light is becoming less simple now that I’m adding these two strips to it. Still waiting on thermal paste and heatsinks. I kinda want to let the other thread about the heatsinks die because I bought some from that heatsinkusa site. I need to buy some aluminum angle or something so I can bracket the strips about 6 inches away from each side of the board.

 

[ebcrew]

About your first post do you have a link with more information? Possibly a diy, prices or anything. It looks just like the sf1000 that's about 150 bux

 

[TerrapinBlazin]

About your first post do you have a link with more information? Possibly a diy, prices or anything. It looks just like the sf1000 that's about 150 bux

Atreum 288.2 LED Board, Horticulture Full Spectrum Grow Light Panel, Samsung LM301B

This high efficiency LED Board uses 288x Samsung LM301B SK Bin diodes for full-spectrum lighting; critical for the vegetative and flowering stages in your indoor grow. Accepts up to 120W of power at a compact 9"x9". Uses Meanwell drivers, and can be daisy chained for a clean setup.

atreumlighting.com

I bought all my boards and bars from them. Really good prices, really nice people. I like them better than HLG. The board is $75 if you want heatsink included. $60 for the bare board. They sell drivers too but I get mine from http://mouser.com — they seem to have the best prices and selection in general.

Here’s a pic of the light I built for flowering. It has two of those boards as well as two 60 watt bars and the 4 cobs on the end that I salvaged from some spotlights. They just happened to be really nice cobs.

 

[ebcrew]

Thanks bro I'll check it out looking to add another sf1000 type light to my grow
Edit: After doing the math , before the taxes and shipping it's only about a $25 difference.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

Atreum 288.2 LED Board, Horticulture Full Spectrum Grow Light Panel, Samsung LM301B

This high efficiency LED Board uses 288x Samsung LM301B SK Bin diodes for full-spectrum lighting; critical for the vegetative and flowering stages in your indoor grow. Accepts up to 120W of power at a compact 9"x9". Uses Meanwell drivers, and can be daisy chained for a clean setup.

atreumlighting.com

I bought all my boards and bars from them. Really good prices, really nice people. I like them better than HLG. The board is $75 if you want heatsink included. $60 for the bare board. They sell drivers too but I get mine from http://mouser.com — they seem to have the best prices and selection in general.

Here’s a pic of the light I built for flowering. It has two of those boards as well as two 60 watt bars and the 4 cobs on the end that I salvaged from some spotlights. They just happened to be really nice cobs.

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Sweet man. Beautiful plants. And that company sounds great. I was actually born in Seattle, and I'm a pretty good product too, lol.

 

[TerrapinBlazin]

Yeah their stuff is high quality. Those boards are just insane and the bars are really nice too. I switched to the LED halfway through this harvest and I’m hoping my next one will be better. I started what I’ve got now under a 600 watt HPS. I was trying to find some 12 inch strips with those same lm310b chips but I couldn’t find them anywhere. I don’t know exactly what’s in the influx strips I bought but the lumen/watt efficiency isn’t quite as good. The heatsinks won’t be here until next Wednesday so I won’t be able to update this for a while.

 

[TerrapinBlazin]

Well I got everything all put together except I’m waiting until I get paid to buy some landscape wire for the main cord and some aluminum angle to bracket it all together. Came out pretty nice but the self tappers look kinda stupid. They aren’t perfectly centered either but I would have needed to set up a jig and template. I just freehanded this.

 

[TerrapinBlazin]

Well I finished it today. Got the outriggers mounted and they’re perfect. These influx strips really crank for only being 25 watts max. Bright. I wish I could have built nicer brackets, but that would have required the knowledge and equipment to do tungsten welding, and I have neither. I’ll tell you what though, Samsung has some new Gen 3 influx strips that hit 100 watts each. They look sweet, and if I was going to build a flower light from scratch knowing what I know now, I would use 6 of those, on two 4 foot x 8 inch heatsinks, 3 strips per, spaced about 12 inches apart. Those Atreum boards are awesome and I really like their stuff, and the influx gen 3 strips weren’t available when I first started building.