horribleherk
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I was given 2 of these I would like to hear from anyone who has swapped the blurple chips for cobs or strips utilizing the vipar heatsinks & drivers
Has anybody hacked a vipar spectra 1200 ???
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Airwalker16
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Rocket Soul
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Im not sure what would be the point? It isnt that hard or expensive to get a new solution which doesnt force you to adapt to vipars foot print and use their (i suppose...) dodgy drivers. You might have maybe 100$ of useable parts on both those lights.
Airwalker16
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The heatsinks and fans for sure for sure.
horribleherk
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pulled it apart & it looks like the 5 drivers are gonna be useless maybe but heatsink is a good one ,fans & housing adaptable to a few options
Airwalker16
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Not totally useless. That would run an old style 100V board at 80ish watts
horribleherk
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Each one has a 12v. Plug to run the fans I'm wanting to use the housing , fans & heatsink to run about 350w of cobs for one of my 3x3 tents that right now has a 200w. CLW ss-275 its a bit shy of what I'm wanting the other 3x3 I'm running has 340w. 6 cob light & works good 400w. of cob not out of the question like timber 4-vero
Renfro
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Just my 2 cents... Not trying to be a negative Nancy lol, rather keeping it real. Probably better off just using them as veg lights or selling them on craigslist and using the money towards your build. IMHO LED is all about matching components up for the best performance AND also having the latest / greatest / most pricey tech. Of course one could use some old drivers and cobble something together thats less than ideal only to have the driver fail after a month since it's old. Then you have a pile of crap thats not worthy of paying to replace the obsolete driver.
Airwalker16
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The housing is pointless. Our goal with LEDs is to SSSPPPPRREEEEAAADD the light across out canopy as much as possible. Like a strip build.
horribleherk
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I'm on my first run with the light I used the housing , heatsinks , wiring & fans I ordered 6 luminus cxb 22 50v. cobs & found 2 meanwell hlg 240 h -54 b drivers on e-bay ran into a few hiccups but its together & working in my 3 x 3 tent this is a single plant grow moving forward I'm getting a 4 x 4 tent and a pair of 260 cm exhaust fans but overall I'm happy with the performance just a few bugs to work out my growmie is running a spider farmer knock off (480w.) in a 4x4 with 6 plants were gonna have us a little grow off & compare notes
