TOGGLED LED Tubes - Anyone Tried??
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Airwalker16
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Never hears of them. But I'd have to say its most likely garbage using SMD3050's or some cheap shit Osram diodes.
Airwalker16
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Yup. Absolute trash. 1.9u/J. Holy shit that's bad..
And OMFG ......
They state "with a little retro fitting to BYPASS the fluorescent T8/T12 ballast, these run in normal fixtures directly off AC MAINS VOLTAGE WTF.
And OMFG ......
They state "with a little retro fitting to BYPASS the fluorescent T8/T12 ballast, these run in normal fixtures directly off AC MAINS VOLTAGE WTF.
Argentocobs
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Really 1.9 umol/j is trash ?? I bet they will grow and yield just fine , maybe with more green like citizen PW horticulture cobs , Wich are 1.7 UMol/j and yields like any warm white cob.
Couch_Lock
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Probably fine for supplemental lighting, maybe side lights. Very low powered tho.
Not worth considering.
Not worth considering.
Airwalker16
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Quantum boards are hitting near 3.0 consistently now.
OneHitDone
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Rocket Soul
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These will probably to quite fine as a spectrum enhancer if you have low hanging height.
1.9 is decent for this kind of phosphor coated blurple spectrum. Remember theres a fair hit of dar red in there which wont be counted to the 1.9/w as they are outside 700nm.
Lumileds did a few of these a year ago and they also landed around 1.9-2.0 at nominal (.2 of a watt)
Soft, at board level maybe. If we can trust the spec of the light this would be total ppf/w with prob shitty power supplies, i could easily imagine it go up 10% if using meanies.
OneHitDone
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Observe & Report
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Why even use these for side lighting when you can get a 2' EB gen 2 strip for $8?
OneHitDone
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You would need 2 strips to make a 4 footer and then a driver etc...
Observe & Report
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4x 1120mm Gen 2 EB Strips @ $14 = $56
1 mean well LPC-100 = $23
total = $79
4 x 4 ft toggle led @ $17.50 = $70
For ten bucks more up front you get more light (~3500 lm vs ~3100 lm each), by using less electricity (~20W vs ~23W each) By the time you're replacing the lights you'll have spent less money and gotten more buds if you go with Gen 2 EB strips. To add insult to the injury, Gen 3 EB strips are expected by summer and will be 10-15% more efficient than Gen 2.
Face it, these things only make sense if you have some legal requirement for a fully assembled, enclosed, and certified light.
OneHitDone
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Yada yada
What if someone just wants to walk into home depot and go home tonight and grow some plants?
Not everyone cares about a few extra % "efficiency"
This thread was just to see if anyone had in fact purchased and grown something with them to see how they performed.
No need for another thread becoming a DIY efficiency pissing match
Observe & Report
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You claimed that these tubes were cheaper and I showed that you are wrong.
Most growers are concerned with yield and many are already pushing the upper limits of temperature, it's not a bunch of yadda yadda.
OneHitDone
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hybridway2
Amare Shill
Yeah right. Nothing manufactured. Any smuck can run anything soft.