Recent content by tinyplantas

@Rahz Thanks man, I understand now. I just ran to radio shack and wired a 10k resistor and a 100k audio pot (all they had) and everything is working great. Once my linear pot arrives on Monday I'll do a nice wiring job but this will do the trick for now. @bizfactory worth noting that to get...

@Rahz I'm a dumbass. I just wired up the 10k pot to the dimmer circuit and when I turn it up I get 26.8 watts, so the issue is that when I wired the dimmer together it was at a super low level. Once I get the 100k pot on there everything will work great. What I don't understand is why when I...

Dammit, I just hooked my light up to a KW meter and for some reason it's only pulling 9 watts at the wall? I thought the lights looked really dim....what am I doing wrong here. @Rahz @REALSTYLES @bizfactory any ideas? @Humanrob Yea these are 5 gallons, but for my next run I'll be doing just 2...

Got my light all set up in the tent. Going to have to take it out in a few days once the potentiometer arrives. I would've installed it today but the only one I could find locally was at radioshack and it was a stereo volume pot with two inputs so I ordered one on amazon and am waiting for it to...

Sure, you can see in the pics I posted but here is a close up. I split the green ground wire from the driver into 2 with an ideal 3 way connector (the orange one). One goes to the ground wire in the power cable, the other goes to a ring connector that I screwed into the heatsink.

Ah great idea :clap:

Hey thanks man! Sorry to hear about the PM issues, I haven't experienced any pests before and I really hope I never do. Have any pics of your setup? I couldn't find them in your history.

@Rahz I just had a thought, since I bought a 10k potentiometer by accident, could I get a 100k resistor and wire them together for the same result as a 10k resistor + 100k pot, or am I not understanding how it works correctly?

Wooohooo! Got her all built and wired up. Still have to go get a potentiometer and add that in but it works, I have created light! Thanks @Rahz @bizfactory @REALSTYLES @zangtumtum and everyone else who has offered such awesome advice throughout this process, I truly appreciate it. Can't wait to...

I just want to clarify the exact procedure for grounding my light. Do I need to split the ground wire coming out of the meanwell driver and screw it to one of the heatsinks with a ring connector, or is it enough to just attach a grounded power cable to the meanwell and screw the driver into the...

Just posted some progress pics over in my build thread, thanks for the help @Greengenes707 https://www.rollitup.org/t/best-led-for-a-2x4x5-tent-looking-to-replace-a-144x5-mars-hydro-reflector.896220/page-3#post-12279100

Thanks @Rahz Some progress pictures are attached, plus a bonus pic of one of my og kush ladies. If I get this light finished in the next couple days they will get a full month or more of those sweet sweet diy led photons :)

Thanks for the reply @Greengenes707, appreciate it man - got one half of my light all drilled and really to install cobs - will post progress pics soon.

I'm pretty sure in this video Greengenes mentions that you need 4 screws per cob, 2 per ideal, 2 per reflector:

Thanks @Rahz appreciate the clarification. So the wiring would go Dim positive, resistor, pot, dim negative? Also, do you happen to know the answer to the question in this thread I posted earlier? https://www.rollitup.org/t/attaching-the-ideal-50-2303cr-to-the-50-2300an.897709/