PhatNuggz
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My 600 was unique at the time I designed it in Feb/March 2014, but it was shipped in late April 2014, about a million years ago in LED technology.
Nick was making separate veg and bloom specific lights @ $1000. When I contacted him I already had several successful grows using my 8 bulb Quantum BadBoy T5 replacing the 4 foot 54w HO bulbs with 5000k + 3000k led tubes @ ~ 24w. This was close to the 54w as 100% of the leds were directed at the canopy. I would use 3 5000k + 1 3000k for veg and the opposite for early bloom, doubling it to 8 bulbs, if I needed to.
Anyway, I suggested that I had a design to make one 600 that could do both, saving the customer money, which would mean more sales. So he agreed using his then custom bar on line template.
Alas, his production line only allowed for a single custom 12" bar and piggyback it into a 4 ft bar. This meant all diode spectrums were positioned the same across all 6 bars (spectrums are impossible to see when lights are off or on), where I wanted the 450/630s dispersed. I also wanted 2 bars with veg spectrums and 4 bars with bloom spectrums. Instead, all 6 bars are the same, but it still produces excellent buds/harvests (see pics). To compensate, I staggered the bars ~ 6"
This is my second grow after removing the diffusers, which significantly increases the amount of light hitting the canopy, as well as deep into the plant
This is a pssive design, so I use a fan that blows air across the heat sink bars, which significantly increases efficiency
His newest company (Fluence), pretty much copied my original design
First picture is current grow
The 4th picture was first grow using it, way back in May 2014
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