They're Ideal 50-2303 holders that came with the kit. they're solderless, you just shove the end of the wire in the connector and it grabs it somehow. I'm not sure if can i yank the wire out and stick it back in. I may just order new ones. The Bender and Worth holders lays over the cob and is screwe...

I switched out the driver and the cord connector for ones I know work and sure enough it did the same thing so i'm guessing cobb holder rather than cobb? How to figure out which though... it definitely isn't obvious visually

I built 3 others all with the same parts that work fine, so one of those 3 things

no... they're taped up. I think I'll just take the whole thing apart and put it back together again

yep, brown is positive... i put a mark on the port of the cobb holder closest to the + sign. double checked too tho. if any of that was backward it just wouldnt have come on right?

yes, serial. cxb 3590's

added some pics to the original post

Just got finished putting together a unit of four 50 watt crees with a hlg 185h c1400b driver following the build on here. the lights come on but are really dim. the potentiometer does nothing so i took it off but that didn't effect the brightness. strangely after it's unplugged the lights stay on a...

Here tap water tends to be 8 something, yes they are in soil, fox farm ocean forest to be exact, since learning that that medium will actually lower the ph i didn't ph down at all for a while. from the image in the original post you can see i had transplanted the clones into variously sized small po...

Marine2143 wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2019 4:49 pm

Aloha & Try this KNF method with proper lighting levels.

what's knf?