My new 4x3 flower light

TheTinkerer

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I assembled the first phase of my light today. It’s just four ChilLed logic pucks on an HLG-320H-C1750B, so far, but I’ll be adding another 150-200 watts of LEDs on another driver. Probably strips, maybe QBs.
My frame is made of repurposed steel shelving parts that were lying around the shop.
I made my frame in such a way that the pucks can slide wherever I want them. Currently they are mounted toward the center, but when I add more LEDs the pucks will move to the corners. I just loosen the set screws and slide the heatsinks where I want them. When it hung a little crooked in the tent, I adjusted a couple of the heatsinks to balance the frame.
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TheTinkerer

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I like the idea of adding multiple spectrums to my light, on separate drivers. Are vesta strips still considered a good choice? Sol-strips?
Any suggestions?
 

TEKNIK

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With solstrips you can get nearly what ever spectrum you want. To fill in anything that's missing. I would suggest 730nm on at least one board
 

TheTinkerer

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With solstrips you can get nearly what ever spectrum you want. To fill in anything that's missing. I would suggest 730nm on at least one board
I like it! Can I run six or seven of the $10 Cree strips with one or two strips with 730nm all on the same driver?
 

TEKNIK

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So long as you balance out the voltage you can. One benifit of 730nm is to shorten grow times that's why you need a separate driver on a separate timer
 

TEKNIK

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Easiest way to set up the drivers is to have a 48V driver for the cree strips and a 24V driver for the 730nm strips.
 

TheTinkerer

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Well, I jumped on a four pack of 3000k qb120v2 when they came back in stock this morning. I’ll get those running and then add some reds and uv when I can. Woohoo!
 
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