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Cool stuff but the prices have come down enough that I just buy them. Last one I got is rockin it at we speak. Plants love it.
It's waaaaayyyy cheaper to build one.
You don't even have to be tech savvy to build these. I'm an idiot so if I can do it.... It's crazily easy.That is a very good read. It gave me flashbacks to my electronics engineering classes.
All that stuff used there for making the LED arrays could be bought at Radio Shack at one time but now it has to be ordered online as they quit carrying that stuff for the most part.
If you are tech savvy at all, doing those builds is a blast. I did a very similar thing to build "moonlight" arrays for my 55gal fish tank. But instead of using a circuit board, because of the simplicity of my needs, I was able to just mount everything into the plastic covers of my hoods. They worked great for several years until I had to replace the hoods.
I would have to agree with you my friend not to mention you'll get a lot better quality I don't know much about this stuff but what I have learned in this last little bit is you're definitely better to build one like you said Plus you can get a lot better coverage instead of A store bought one beams the light and one Derakhshan where you can get full coverage by spreading it out on your custom built one
Sorry I didn't ever take any pics of it. It was very simple. I had 2 white and 2 blue leds with little screw-in led mounts that I mounted to the plastic in each of the hoods. I bought a 6v 300ma plug in power supply. I mounted small push button switches on top of the hoods so that I could switch them off and on. I used the same formula for figuring my resistors. I mounted a small terminal strip inside each hood and made all my connections through those (rather than using any boards). It was fairly crude but for my purpose it worked out really well.
I think I am going to build a couple of these in strip lighting to hang with my HPS lights in my flower space to see if I can increase resin production in my plants.
Sorry I didn't ever take any pics of it. It was very simple. I had 2 white and 2 blue leds with little screw-in led mounts that I mounted to the plastic in each of the hoods. I bought a 6v 300ma plug in power supply. I mounted small push button switches on top of the hoods so that I could switch them off and on. I used the same formula for figuring my resistors. I mounted a small terminal strip inside each hood and made all my connections through those (rather than using any boards). It was fairly crude but for my purpose it worked out really well.
I think I am going to build a couple of these in strip lighting to hang with my HPS lights in my flower space to see if I can increase resin production in my plants.
This is awesome i'm going to sit back watch and pay close attention to what you guys say maybe somehow I can understand this LED business I watched a few videos for me putting it together part will be easy for me but I just don't understand all the different LED and drivers to choose from. :48:
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