DIY with Quantum Boards

GardenGuy

GardenGuy

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The video with growmau5 and robin was a bit critical for making a trustful profile for HLG, imho. At least for noobs like me who didn't want blurples and growers on an upgrade process. I may have bitched in this thread about the qb availability, but i trusted the guys for their product quality. Evil-mobo's sog thead was also a good example of what those boards can do, among other guys' pictures and journals.
The profile of the maker/seller is really important to my point of view. The hlg guys are not ebay chinese epistar sellers.
 
BobCajun

BobCajun

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Not to be a downer but aren't the QB and similar boards essentially the same as Samsung inFlux linear strips but in a squarer shape? It's right about the same wattage as 2 or 3 of the 66w strips. I guess you use different material for the boards though, so that's a difference there, but does that even make that much difference? I doubt if many people would even have thought of the linear strips if they hadn't heard about the QBs though. That's kind of the problem. Once you bring something to market everybody can then look for substitutes. Didn't take me long to find the inFlux strips simply by searching about the Samsung LEDs used in the QBs.

Let's face it, it's not really a proprietary technology, LEDs on a board, other than the actual LEDs, to Samsung. People could say you imitated inFlux. Anyway, rather obvious that the idea has already spread so now it's a competition, just like with the COBs. QB clones will probably be on Alibaba shortly if they aren't already. Like I said, you messed up by exposing the product before you had a reliable supply, leaving people looking for substitutes that are readily available. Chalk it up as lesson learned and when you get another idea like that, make sure you have a warehouse full before you even show a pic of one, or at least know that you can have more made up FAST. Suing that guy would likely fail, unless it's an exact duplicate and you patented the design, which I doubt you did.
 
greg nr

greg nr

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Personally, I wouldn't trust someone who blatantly stole someone else's IP. Sure, they can claim S6, or top bin, or even Samsung. But the fact is there is no way to tell what a chip is when it's mounted to a board.

Just look at the crap on ebay and alibaba. CREE!! not.

And try getting any level of support. Ha! Better be cheap enough to just throw away and lighting nothing more critical than your garage.
 
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Madmungo

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sixstring2112 said:
Im always going to buy originals over knockoffs,kinda like the whole cree vs shitizen lol.I'm sure hlg will do whatever it takes to keep their share of the qb market.we all know both robin and steven have been around here a while now doing business and standing behind their work.wait till theres a problem with any of these quick hit companies/knockoff sellers lol.
As long as hlg keeps changing the game and taking care of its base like it has they have nothing to worry about imo.10 guys selling 20 to 40 knockoff boards will only account for a small percentage of the total sales from hlg.
@OLD MOTHER SATIVA its pretty low and shameless to pop into this specific thread with that shit,you get zero respect from me for that .
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Not wishing to be a pedant and I may be wrong, but didn't citizen invent the COB?
 
captainmorgan

captainmorgan

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Just to set the record straight. The QB guys told me a while back that someone had purchased a QB and they sent it to a Chinese company to be copied exactly and the company was told that it was to be sold on Amazon. Well karma is a bitch,turns out it was the same company that the QB guys use to assemble their boards.
 
Victor6634

Victor6634

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All I can say is it a real lowlife bottom feeding scumbag to steal someone else's idea and design especialy with all the work and help that Michael and Robin put in just my honest opinion
 
robincnn

robincnn

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Will include these connector/board guards along with Slate 2 orders.
These are just M3 screw holes for the guard. Optionally these holes can be used to attach acrylic sheet.

Cable joiner at the bottom of pic comes standard with all kits. Wagos included if you cannot figure out this power cable connector.

This 135W comes with HLG120H-54A and was pulling 158 watts at wall.
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Back to fulfilling orders :peace:
 
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Madmungo

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greg nr said:
LightSpot holds the patent and licenses it out.
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robincnn said:
Will include these connector/board guards along with Slate 2 orders.
These are just M3 screw holes for the guard. Optionally these holes can be used to attach acrylic sheet.

Cable joiner at the bottom of pic comes standard with all kits. Wagos included if you cannot figure out this power cable connector.

This 135W comes with HLG120H-54A and was pulling 158 watts at wall.
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Back to fulfilling orders :peace:
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im really looking forward to getting my pair of 260's in 3000k
 
MrTwist1

MrTwist1

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lukio said:
cool. got a link to S6 bin? cause that what people want and theres nothing wrong with that
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I agree there is nothing wrong with that... just pointing out there's many ways to skin a cat. Folks will make there own decisions about what is important to them, but lambasting the creators of this fine product for not having supply available immediately is lame when u consider there are many fine alternatives available at this moment.
 
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