Samsung F564B Linear Strip Build

Wow nice work dude,beautiful light and beautiful plants

Smashed it!! Well done

Takeshy! That's awesome! You even beat me on W/gm! I pulled 6lbs 11ozs of cured bud from three plants, but I was running 1600W of mixed Samsungs and CXB3590s.
Your results are amazing!

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Is this your secret? Making sure they have enough to read and they explode?
Shit, I just put my paper in the paper bin..., lol!
Just kidding, mate! She look nice and healthy!
So lucky, I've got my F-strips finally running too.
I'm already working on another one using F-strips together with some old COB's at low current.

Lol, yeah, I have the fan blowing from the other side, or they would have twice as much to read.

Sour Wreck said:

I just popped king tut, hoping for fire !!!!

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I'll be interested to see how it compares to your GTH.

jonsnow399 said:

I'll be interested to see how it compares to your GTH.

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Check back with me in several months

Good read! A man made a plan did his homework, and followed through. Excellent job Takeshy!

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I'm trying to understand your lights, ANC. What are those housings the strips are attached to? I presume they were repurposed from other lights. They look hell for stout.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/pictures-of-your-diy-lights-post-your-pics.871625/page-93#post-14032094

Just common 3" by 20mm channel.

ANC said:

https://www.rollitup.org/t/pictures-of-your-diy-lights-post-your-pics.871625/page-93#post-14032094

Just common 3" by 20mm channel.

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Cool. Maybe I just can't see the ridges down the sides in the build pics. And it looks like the channel does this in the above pic:

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Good to see you growing with strips! You'll never look back.

Yes, you are right, it has a slight lip on each side, and a slightly recessed area.
It is common aluminium shit, I just picked up at the building supplies place.

Metric dimensions are 74 x 20mm and it is just over 2mm thick. maybe 2.6mm. It is very light.
Lightness was a goal, I got nervous over the weight from the sheet metal COB rigs we had.

Everything is held together by the two 5mm threaded rods (I will use 6mm next time)

I used some M10 threaded bar for mine but I put four lights on mine used 3 foot sections glued the end nuts on left the middle one's able to move to even the light at different heights

The 5mm is more than enough for just 3 strips. But I'd like to make one more 3 bar and one 4 bar setup.
I think the 6mm will handle the extra weight better

I think my threaded bar weighs more than the light strips

And there was me thinking of adding more qb's style boards to my existing qb setup. But after looking at some of these builds and results that sorta put the qb idea to bed. Plenty of choice with diy led builds now which is fantastic. Drawing board time again.

@zypheruk if you are in the uk same as me then it is simple's mate digi-key for strips mouser for drivers somewhere local for ali channel

knight mare said:

@zypheruk if you are in the uk same as me then it is simple's mate digi-key for strips mouser for drivers somewhere local for ali channel

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I am indeed in the uk no stranger to mouser etc, but thanks for heads up.

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And there was me thinking of adding more qb's style boards to my existing qb setup. But after looking at some of these builds and results that sorta put the qb idea to bed. Plenty of choice with diy led builds now which is fantastic. Drawing board time again.

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Each one of those strips carries 288 diodes just like some of the QB panels, and they are 'only' $50.

The M5 rod weighs almost nothing.