floods and highbays

caretak3r

caretak3r

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A friend of mine picked up some 100W LED floods, and some 100W LED highbays from a going out of business sale. I don't have the details on the floods, but here's the highbay info:

http://atg-led.com/docs/C_eLucent_A1.pdf

it's 100W, 5500-6500K, 45degree highbay using a bridgelux chip. I'm not sure if it has a removable lens or what.

My question to the experts - what would you supplement with to make this viable for flower?
 
caretak3r

caretak3r

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also, haven't gotten to tear into them yet, but the other option is to just use the housing, heatsink, and driver... the units only cost $30-40 so it's not all bad if that's all that is useful
 
Gaius

Gaius

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caretak3r said:
also, haven't gotten to tear into them yet, but the other option is to just use the housing, heatsink, and driver... the units only cost $30-40 so it's not all bad if that's all that is useful
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Need to know driver output specs to recommend a different chip.

If you need supplemental side-lighting, a couple 2700K T5HOs will absolutely rock the house. If you wanna go pricier though, throw an 80w hans panel on either side of the area for bloom. The Hans will end up costing less than the T5s after just a few grows.

What size is the grow area, and how many of those enclosures did he snag?
 
caretak3r

caretak3r

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agreed on driver - working on it.

not sure how big of an area he's planning on - and the crazy guy bought 17 lights total I think. After I get ahold of the lights and check drivers I'll have a better idea of optional replacements. I was just curious what would be suggested to supplement with other LEDs/cobs... 2700 or 3000K COBS at equal power might balance out the 6000K, or, maybe just run some good quality Reds
 
Gaius

Gaius

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I'm building a 3000K CXA3070 flowering room, check that thread out for some great tips with COB builds. I knew relatively little starting out, but now have a pretty fair grasp on the subject thanks to help from several kind folks on this forum.
 
caretak3r

caretak3r

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Gaius said:
I'm building a 3000K CXA3070 flowering room, check that thread out for some great tips with COB builds. I knew relatively little starting out, but now have a pretty fair grasp on the subject thanks to help from several kind folks on this forum.
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:lol: well aware of your thread - I'm the kind soul that pointed out you can't use a PC power supply to drive LEDs :)
 
MrFlux

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For supplementing with brand COBs 100W of warm white per baylight would be OK. The COBs would be twice as efficient as the baylights so the effective ratio of warm:cool would be 2:1.

The baylights give a measly 60 lumen per watt so you might want to replace the emitter with a brand COB as well. The driver is likely ~34V x 3.5A, you could rig it so that one driver powers two Vero 29's in parallel, one Vero per baylight because of space constraints.

or CXA3070 instead of Vero 29
 
caretak3r

caretak3r

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MrFlux said:
For supplementing with brand COBs 100W of warm white per baylight would be OK. The COBs would be twice as efficient as the baylights so the effective ratio of warm:cool would be 2:1.

The baylights give a measly 60 lumen per watt so you might want to replace the emitter with a brand COB as well. The driver is likely ~34V x 3.5A, you could rig it so that one driver powers two Vero 29's in parallel, one Vero per baylight because of space constraints.

or CXA3070 instead of Vero 29
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thanks so much MrFlux - just the type of info i was looking for
 
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