Northern Grow Lights TITAN w/ SST-X and Vero Gen7 72v 90 CRI Grow

The Titan has landed! I am beyond pleased with this build! Ever since I built my CXA bars I was always interested in running Veros hard and Robin finally convinced me to make the jump. Excellent work my friend, thank you!

This thing is blinding at the full 420w.
I really like this color temp and cri. Way different than my 3000k CXA's. Seems much more white. Which I expected from Vero. After 13 hours sinks are ice cold running all four at 100w combined.

Can't wait to flip these.
In 2 gallon pots, on the right is a clone of the Underdog og and the left are two clones of the Golden Lemons.
In the cups are Kandy Kush and another Underdog which I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with.
Will probably veg another week or two if I can keep my finger off the trigger long enough.
I have two 4" passive intakes down bottom with 6" hyperfan and presh filter up top.
They are in nutrifield 70/30 coco with about 30% of growstones aeration mix. They will get the 321+.5 and I will also be giving them ful-power from bio-ag.

On with the pics of this beast.
Have it dimmed to about 100w right now

Nice bro, looking forward to watching this. CRANK UP THE POWER. What size tent you running this in?

sauce on that nice box and pot/knob?

I'm Surprised It Didn't Set Off Alarms With All The Popping Of The Bubble Wrap

Coolest light I've seen yet.

4x Bridgelux Vero 29 C 70V 3000K 90 CRI from Digikey for $31.67each
4x SST X Splay pin Passive heatsinks $24each
2x HLG-185H-C1400B from Online Electronics $51.70 each

Junction boxes 100x68x50mm or 100mm x 70mm x 40mm on ebay for $3-$8 each
PG 9 and PG 7 cable glands
Power cord
Frame
Shipping cost

100 watts per COB per heatsink.
Vero 29 has reflector adapters and LEDiL Angelina reflectors can be added if needed.
There will be a 3x3 run with Titan after this one.

@NapalmD good luck with Titan in your 2x2.5
f*** GPW numbers. 80W/sqft. Blast away with as much power as your plants can handle.

You could make some sick looking lamps with those sinks. I'd like to see a black Photon type fixture with two of those sticky out the top. Possibly at jaunty angles. Just a mean looking lamp.

Would that work? What would it do to over all efficiency compared to the current active fan set up.

Nice looking forward to see what this new gen of Vero will do. One thing that I didn't understand.
So you had Cree cxa 3000k cri 80 and you say that the 3k cri 90 Vero ia putting les yellow and more white ?

for us super OCD types would it be possible to offset the mod420 holes so the heatsinks sit square to the frame? im guessing this would be an easy redrill

puffenuff said:

Nice bro, looking forward to watching this. CRANK UP THE POWER. What size tent you running this in?

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It's in my 2x2.5 but will be running it in a 3x3 next. Believe me man, I can't wait to crank it to 11!

optzulu said:

Nice looking forward to see what this new gen of Vero will do. One thing that I didn't understand.
So you had Cree cxa 3000k cri 80 and you say that the 3k cri 90 Vero ia putting les yellow and more white ?

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Yes, the veros appear more white in color. You can check out my current run under the Crees and see for yourself.

robincnn said:

4x Bridgelux Vero 29 C 70V 3000K 90 CRI from Digikey for $31.67each
4x SST X Splay pin Passive heatsinks $24each
2x HLG-185H-C1400B from Online Electronics $51.70 each

Junction boxes 100x68x50mm or 100mm x 70mm x 40mm on ebay for $3-$8 each
PG 9 and PG 7 cable glands
Power cord
Frame
Shipping cost
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100 watts per COB per heatsink.
Vero 29 has reflector adapters and LEDiL Angelina reflectors can be added if needed.
There will be a 3x3 run with Titan after this one.

@NapalmD good luck with Titan in your 2x2.5
f*** GPW numbers. 80W/sqft. Blast away with as much power as your plants can handle.

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Thanks man! You better believe it. I'm gonna push these to the limit. I have to get the screen on ASAP, maybe tonight or tmrw. Have to take a few cuts from that Golden Lemons too. I just have a good feeling about her.
Let the games begin!

How cool do those sinks stay at full blast? Im not trying to ditch the lamp, it looks awesome. My regular 1m heatsinks get really warm at 200w cxb3590 if the fans are turned off. And I accidentally broke one of my fans, so thats really annoying.

benbud89 said:

How cool do those sinks stay at full blast? Im not trying to ditch the lamp, it looks awesome. My regular 1m heatsinks get really warm at 200w cxb3590 if the fans are turned off. And I accidentally broke one of my fans, so thats really annoying.

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Robin took a reading of 62c at 105w.
I will take readings as well throughout flower.

NapalmD said:

Robin took a reading of 62c at 105w.
I will take readings as well throughout flower.

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Any chance we could see a PAR map of your area? I would love to see as much real world data as possible... seems like this might be the cheapest option to get started. I dont want to recommend blindly

Cool.

Could you share a bit about how that dimmer is wired up in the junction box?

robincnn said:

f*** GPW numbers. 80W/sqft. Blast away with as much power as your plants can handle.

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im using 73W/SF in one of my 3x3s right now

i just measured, 1300-1500 ppfd at the top, 700-900 6" down in the canopy. this was a preflower tent (400ishW of blueish osram) that id normally move into a 4.5' x 5' on day 14 but the big tent is still full up....so i just flipped on the reds and let it go in the 3x3. solarstorm 880 (osram)

I was a little off quoting Robin, it was actually lower but again I will be taking heat measurements throughout the grow and that's what counts.

Took a few clones from the 2 Golden Lemons last night and put the screen down today and cleaned them up a little.
I also turned up the power a bit.
I'm eager to flip now but will probably do it on Thanksgiving so I can pour a little gravy in the pots as a blessing
Since both these strains grow similarly I should be able to pull off a pretty nice scrog.
Will also start feeding both of my tents some Ful-Power on their next feedings.

CobKits said:

i just measured, 1300-1500 ppfd at the top, 700-900 6" down in the canopy. this was a preflower tent (400ishW of blueish osram) that id normally move into a 4.5' x 5' on day 14 but the big tent is still full up....so i just flipped on the reds and let it go in the 3x3. solarstorm 880 (osram)

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Any reason you're not scroging? Seems like a waste of light

time

CobKits said:

time

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So how longs your veg? I thought a month wasn't a bad amount of time