gorillaglueaaron
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Thanks, I'm expecting a lot to go wrong but I'm prepared.sounds like fun, good luck.
Cfl no way. I considered cobs but I decided to use individual diodes because cobs would be too focused and I'm going to have the plants growing really close to the lights. Also, since the plants are going to be so close, I wanted the most efficient LEDs as possible to prevent heat.I assume small cob or cfl is not an option?
There are 2 types of LED strips.I see. I could not find it now, but for some time ago I saw a diy tiny growbox on y ewtube. This one used led strips that was controllable with app on Phone. There were top light and side light. Worked brilliantly. I see you wrote that led strips is not strong enough?
There were top light and side light.
I ordered 1 diode boards but I wasn't aware there were different sizes of diodes so I just ordered what looked like the one that would fit me best.I believe you will find lighting from the side to be a pretty big waste. I don't believe undersides of leaves can use sunlight. I read about some testing on this and all it really did was use more energy and add heat. I can find that again if you are thinking about coming down the sides.
What star board design are you looking at? 1 Diode per board or an array?
If you get stuck I can help you design a custom PCB and get them printed at Osh Park I've used them many times for prototypes - you can order small qty of custom boards and takes about 2 weeks.
I thought about doing multi diode boards but then I'm going to get the same problems as with cobs (wait now that I think about it, this is a cob). I'm trying to disperse the light evenly so if I had something like this then I would have a few of these groups of LEDs instead of one sort of uniform intensity. It sort of seems weird since the space is so small but what I'm going for is coverage.View attachment 1079458
Another option, I think this will get you more light in less space than single star boards. You can cut off the tabs with the connectors they are not necessary if you hard wire these.
I'm challenging the limits. Seeing the smallest I can go. I was thinking about building something small but much bigger than this for a mother so I could do SOG in my actual tent but then I saw other people's boxes and just wondered how small was the smallest possible. I'm hoping I can even grow something in it because it's put me back a decent amount already, almost as much as a 2x2x4 set up would be.So, I'm curious. Why so small? I'm really interested in seeing what you do at this scale.
That probably would have been a good idea. Oh well, now I get to learn to do it myself.You should get one of these....perfect for a micro grow.
QB96 Elite V2 Quantum Board
QB96 Elite V2 is a white LED Board with boosted red spectrum. Each Board is powered by 64 high power white LED, 16 630nm Red LED and 16 660nm Deep Red LED.horticulturelightinggroup.com
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