The answer in a nutshell seems to be China. I have been using well over 1000 strips per year (and growing) in my builds and am looking for a wholesale source. I would rather do business with a nation that has more ethical labor and environmental laws but I have found that it is not possible to make ...

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Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:39 am

I am thinking about doing a similar build with a 125g Planted Aquarium . What did you use as a Heatsink for the Samsung Horticulture LED Strips?

So sorry I didn't see your post until now. The top of the fixture is sheet metal, which acts as the heat sink.

I only want to control dimming and possibly on/off of the lights. The rest of this rooms environmental controls are managed by a trolmaster brand system (and a separate CO2 device since trolmaster is worthless at controlling CO2 in open loop rooms). I use a blumat automated watering system. I know ...

Led Lights ? do they have the manual dimmer ? or is the LED driver dimmable ? with Home Assistant pretty much everything is possible LEDG is dimming his LEDs here and you can make Automations on HA to dimme down led lights if to hot , get a little hotter dimme again . https://youtu.be/SMWJXIhill8?t...

I only want to control dimming and possibly on/off of the lights. The rest of this rooms environmental controls are managed by a trolmaster brand system (and a separate CO2 device since trolmaster is worthless at controlling CO2 in open loop rooms). I use a blumat automated watering system. I know t...

So I'm putting together a shopping list of parts to build this project. Do you have any recommendations for sources or brands?

I'm googling terms and learn as we talk here. Thanks for being patient with me. So if I wanted to go the i2c route for connectivity, I could use something like this, https://store.ncd.io/product/12-channel-i2c-0-10v-analog-to-digital-converter-with-i2c-interface/ and the dimmer leads from the driver...

This guy seems to have made an arduino based lighting controller for mean well type b drivers,

https://growgreenled.wordpress.com/

to be honest i dont remember and idont have my multimeterhere to read it , the AC infinity blowers on amazon run on a 24 volts PSU , i used the same PSU connected to the Mosfet L298M and i matched the same output voltage as the original 3 speed controller from the Blower .been working good for mont...

It would be awesome to build something like this but to control mean well drivers

https://hydrobuilder.com/grow-light-bul ... oller.html