Aussie High Lights – we're official

Airwalker16 said:

Which is 180-190v

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The interesting thing about Mean Well drivers is that all the ones we've tested generate more power than their rated specs. That particular driver is rated from 91V-183V but according to the test report it goes down to as low as 0.1V, so you could run one board off it no worries but it won't go higher than 184V. But it does output over 2A of current which is more than than the specified 1.75A current.


Technically this means the HLG-320H-C1750 could drive each High Light at 2.02A at 47V (95W) and could handle up to three boards (141V). That would give you about 285W total. I based my 250W on the rated output of 1.75A but you would almost certainly get more than that. How much more i can't say as there are vzriations between batches. We test a lot of HLG-320H-48A drivers and they generally pull 360-380W from the wall with two of our boards, with most falling in the 365-370W range.

Grow Lights Australia said:

Well the good news is you could fit two of our boards to a Slate 2 triple heatsink. The bads news is you can't fit three because our boards are over 1.5x bigger than a Quantum Board so they won't all fit.

But the other good news is you wouldn't need to use a heatsink at all with three of our boards running at around 85W each, so you could build your own simple frame if you wanted to.

The even better news is if you only have a 1x0.5m tent (0.5 square metres), you would only need two of our boards on your Slate 2 triple heatsink and and you could still use your existing HLG-320H-C1750 and have enough power to flower. You would have close to 35W per square foot and all you would need are two High Lights and a bit of time to drill some new holes in your existing heatsink. Cheaper than buying and building your own frame too.

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Thank you, that’s really given me food for thought.

numberfour said:

Wedding Cake f2 x Kush Mints11 #2 flowered under High Lights
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Macro with my kids microscope
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Man, those are super nice looking congrats. Gives me something to strive to obtain with my current run. Hopefully I can keep things on track.

I'm really close to purchasing a house, so can't wait to get some more space and expand things bit. Looking forward to buying at least a couple more boards for a 2x4 or 4x4 tent as a little house warming gift for myself.

Learnt alot from this thread the main reason I have ordered a 350 watt double kit, done alot of research on lights and think these have the better specs and also growers using the lights and being honest-others give free lights and people talk bs about them. Looking forward to when these buddies are available down under. At the moment being using P6 lights in 3 rooms ,down to the last light(absolute rubbish) very inefficient - only running at 550 watts as blowen burple section but still managed 1.36 gpw from 6 autos happy with that--

loco41 said:

Man, those are super nice looking congrats. Gives me something to strive to obtain with my current run. Hopefully I can keep things on track.

I'm really close to purchasing a house, so can't wait to get some more space and expand things bit. Looking forward to buying at least a couple more boards for a 2x4 or 4x4 tent as a little house warming gift for myself.

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Thanks, you can't go wrong with great genetics and great lights.

Best of luck with your house purchase, get a 4x4 for flower and 2x4 for cuts / mothers

@Grow Lights Australia have you got any pre-built models for sale or are these diy for now ?

metic said:

@Grow Lights Australia have you got any pre-built models for sale or are these diy for now ?

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We sell pre-assembled boards through a local hydroponics shop in Perth, but not online I'm afraid.

Grow Lights Australia said:

We sell pre-assembled boards through a local hydroponics shop in Perth, but not online I'm afraid.

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Great do you know the specs of the prebuild?

Same as the kits, just assembled: https://growlightsaustralia.com/product/double-high-light-heat-sink-driver-combo-350-450w-max/

Thanks

How would one Highlight board compare to an Spider Farmer SF-2000 in terms of yield and coverage? I notice the SF-2000 uses about 100 more LED's.

Zootime said:

How would one Highlight board compare to an Spider Farmer SF-2000 in terms of yield and coverage? I notice the SF-2000 uses about 100 more LED's.

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yield: impossible to say. coverage: the SF might have a single highlight board beat, but these boards aren't meant as budget set ups they're meant for their spectrum, to produce quality more so than yield, or low start up cost which is reflected by coverage in this case cause you could improve that by buying two high lights then you'd have much better coverage.

pulpoinspace said:

you could improve that by buying two high lights then you'd have much better coverage.

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and double the price

Zootime said:

and double the price

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correct. if it was my money id buy one highlight and a CV driver now, use it till i can afford a 2nd highlight, then you could use them both connected to the driver you already have and improve your coverage at the same power later.

Grow Lights Australia said:

The interesting thing about Mean Well drivers is that all the ones we've tested generate more power than their rated specs. That particular driver is rated from 91V-183V but according to the test report it goes down to as low as 0.1V, so you could run one board off it no worries but it won't go higher than 184V. But it does output over 2A of current which is more than than the specified 1.75A current.

HLG-320H-C-MEAN WELL Switching Power Supply Manufacturer

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Technically this means the HLG-320H-C1750 could drive each High Light at 2.02A at 47V (95W) and could handle up to three boards (141V). That would give you about 285W total. I based my 250W on the rated output of 1.75A but you would almost certainly get more than that. How much more i can't say as there are vzriations between batches. We test a lot of HLoG-320H-48A drivers and they generally pull 360-380W from the wall with two of our boards, with most falling in the 365-370W range.

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For these reasons i recommend people checkin gthe 'report' section on the meanwell website datasheet section, its closest to actual real numbers.

Zootime said:

and double the price

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But you would also more than double the power, and increase your yields by at least 50% over a SF-2000.

Two High Light boards can be driven at up to 450W, or about 470W from the wall. The SF-2000 will draw 200W from the wall, which is around 170W at the boards. That's 85W per Spider Farmer board vs 225W per High Light. The SF will run more efficiently at that wattage, but not enough to be anywhere near the light output of two High Lights. You would need at least two SF-2000 fixtures for that.

Each High Light board is physically bigger than each SF board and has 1.5x as many LEDs, so the light spread per board will be in favour of the High Light. The SF-2000 fixture is bigger than one High Light, but smaller than two. The SF-2000 comes in one configuration, but the High Lights can be mounted either side-by-side (square) or end-to-end (long rectangle) to adapt to different sized tents and rooms.

So comparing a SF-2000 to a single High Light, yields and light coverage would be in favour of the SF. But comparing a SF-2000 to two High Lights with a 320W driver ("350W kit" which supplies around 345W to the boards and draws around 370W from the wall), I'd expect your yields to be at least 50% bigger, all things being equal. If you opted for a 480W driver, then I would expect your yields to be at least 75% more. For example, we have customers who are pulling 24-28oz each run from each pair of High Lights being driven at just over 400W.

The Spider Farmer also has no near-UV, which in two recent tests has been shown to increase cannabinoids and terpenes. We're not here to knock the Spider Farmer, but you really need to compare apples to apples to make it a fair comparison.

Rocket Soul said:

For these reasons i recommend people checkin gthe 'report' section on the meanwell website datasheet section, its closest to actual real numbers.

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Yes always the best place to start.

pulpoinspace said:

correct. if it was my money id buy one highlight and a CV driver now, use it till i can afford a 2nd highlight, then you could use them both connected to the driver you already have and improve your coverage at the same power later.

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This is always an option. You can also pair one board with a heatsink and drive it hard – over 200W – at first, and then add a second board and drive them a bit softer for better efficiency. That's why we designed these boards to be driven hard or soft. You get better bank for buck running hard, but you get better efficiency running soft.

About three weeks since the flip and still looking alright I think. Wish I would've bought some bigger pots for this run though, 3 gallons is kind of tight for the organic soil route I go but still hopeful for some quality results again.

Hope everyone is staying well though.

Looking beautiful.