Cool, ive been looking at and curious about Chilled myself and honestly if i had the option to wait that was the direction i was leaning. A ballast blowing up right when i have plants ready to flower forced a purchase asap tho.
They are starting to show up I still have 6 left but I gotta sell my other kelvin cobs must go lol 3000k BD 90CRI. 5000k DB bin, 3000k CD and 4000k CD
Honestly, from my viewpoint i wasnt fighting. I thought it was a fairly well behaved intelligent discussion. We disagree yes, but id hardly call it a fight.
Driver won't blowup if you use a quality driver. We don't use ballast in the led world
Well aware, it was an inherited free donation that i was using until i could do the appropiate research to get quality LED lighting and you must have overlooked i said hps moving to led. Maybe i said that in the other thread? either way. I thought id be able to finish this grow with it while i learned and researched. I thought wrong it lasted about 3 weeks.
That sucks I used to own Mars leds that's why I make COB lights now and I feel you I was a led newbie 2-1/2 years ago and had to learn from a few mistakes lol. We all do at some point in life.
Yea well it was a clusterfuck of circumstances. The free donation was an old shoplight that wasnt being used anymore, basically an oldass floodlight that was a 600w that grew legs and walked into the trunk of my car at work. A friend gave me an end of life cycle but still alive bulb to put in it, was more than adequate as a temporary solution, just too temporary lol.
I have some 600w HPS ballast brand new never used but they are 220v I can sell you for $50 plus shipping
Already purchased 16 Samsung H series strips that should arrive on friday. Now im just trying to figure out what drivers to pair with them.
I know I saw the same thing lol the datasheet show they are 22-24vf. One thing I noticed is you'll need some optics if you want to grow big plants. I'll be chopping some plants down in 4-5 days maybe sooner because the plants are falling over lol they are 4' tall well 6 out of 8
This is my chance to give a shout out to @REALSTYLES for booking me up with CXB3590 3000K 90CRI 72V chips for $35 each!
Optics is something i was already considering, thats likely for the next run in a month or two. Ledil seems to have some that are matched right to those boards, i just dont have the room to veg too much longer so im hoping to be able to power up those strips by monday and my own self doubt on driver choice is whats holding me back.
I'm firmly on the side of optics and lenses vs reflectors. I think they simply do a better job of putting photons where we want them.
Yea thats something im already looking at mostly from what ive read from you ttystikk. I was looking at the ledil ones which aparently are already made to fit these.