What was wrong with the blurples? Nothing really, I'm getting 500 actual watts in my tent right now(250ish at the socket from each) and things are thriving. The money I've spent on them together, I could have built a higher quality light. Mostly looking for better PAR/light intensity compared to wh...

So I thought the whole point of led grow lights was to use red & blue so we don't waste power making light that the plants don't use ? What am I missing? Goony There are studies out there that show the efficiency of various LEDs vs two HPS 1000W lamps. The study talks about what plants need in term...

Okay, so started out hastefully without research, bought some shitty mars LED blurple to handle my first set up. Once I started researching, LED's seem like the seemingly obvious way to go. I'm technically inclined, capable DIY'er for most things, but once the technical stuff starts getting tossed ...

Hi unkle_psycho, what do you mean that the LEDs on the bridge Lux strips are too close for the micros? As in too close on the PCB that they’re on or that the power of these things will be too powerful and the microgreens on the shelf will be too close to the light? I currently use a couple of QB288s...

That’s pretty interesting. I checked out those articles and also the lights. I like that they’re water resistant! Do you know what the diode quality is like on these? Am I going to run into dead diodes or need to replace the strips very often? I am trying to make my build as low maintenance as possi...

Alien farts, what red blues do you suggest? And what do you mean by better efficiency? Is that power draw you’re talking about or photon density? Any help would be appreciated! I was mostly interested in the Samsung diodes due to their quality and length of life. Thanks!

Hi I’m trying to build lighting for my microgreen rack. I want to use the lm301b Samsung diodes configured on the 4’ light strip set up. Data sheet for the LT-QB22A linked here. https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Samsung%20PDFs/LT-Q282A_562A_B22A_Rev0.0_6-19-17.pdf According to LEDgardeners...