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Help me to build my dream setup!
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:28 am
by Darkomatized
Greetings! First post and I'm allready counting on you to help this lazy manatee to come up with something that works. I got this around 2mx 2m (6fx6f) space that I'm planning to stuff full of leds and plants. But I'm very stuck on the planning part. My budget is around 1000-1500 bucks and I have the required skills of soldering and building and stuff but I really don't know what kind of leds and in what colour range, how many watts etc etc etc.
I got experience in growing in general (HPS + shitty leds) If there is someone who really likes to plan growing tents and DIY led setups, all the help would be appriciated. I got room and I got money for it but I got no brains for leds.
Re: Help me to build my dream setup!
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:39 am
by DaveJonesFan
Just a quick my idea notes. This is considering you want something toward the budget end of the highest tech. Just the core drivertrain components for you here.
Strip build utilizing Bridgelux EB Gen 2 strips 560mm in 3500K. Would work great for veg and flower alike.
108 - BXEB-L0560Z-35E2000-C-B3 (110 currently available on digikey
) ~$526
https://www.digikey.co.uk/product-detai ... ND/7907663
6 - HLG-240H-20B ~$375
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ME ... 0lJQtLQ%3d
18 each of the aforementioned strips wired in parallel to each driver.
666mA per strip.
1440w potential.
40w/sq ft.
175+ lumens/watt.
Layout something like this, I did spacing so you can kind of see the groups of 18 for each driver. You could do them on 6 individual sections so you could fine tune the verticality of sections within the space for extra cool factor, like having 6 lights. You could do 6 potentiometers as well. Or work it all into one huge frame or segment as desired.
What do you all think?
Re: Help me to build my dream setup!
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 6:23 am
by alienfarts687
DaveJonesFan wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:39 am
Just a quick my idea notes. This is considering you want something toward the budget end of the highest tech. Just the core drivertrain components for you here.
Strip build utilizing Bridgelux EB Gen 2 strips 560mm in 3500K. Would work great for veg and flower alike.
108 - BXEB-L0560Z-35E2000-C-B3 (110 currently available on digikey
) ~$526
https://www.digikey.co.uk/product-detai ... ND/7907663
6 - HLG-240H-20B ~$375
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ME ... 0lJQtLQ%3d
18 each of the aforementioned strips wired in parallel to each driver.
666mA per strip.
1440w potential.
40w/sq ft.
175+ lumens/watt.
Layout something like this, I did spacing so you can kind of see the groups of 18 for each driver. You could do them on 6 individual sections so you could fine tune the verticality of sections within the space for extra cool factor, like having 6 lights. You could do 6 potentiometers as well. Or work it all into one huge frame or segment as desired.
big strips baby.jpg
What do you all think?
For something of this scale, I'd probably go with Quantum Boards from HLG or similar. I can't imagine mounting all 108 strips by hand! At the very least, I'd go with strips with more diodes, like maybe a bunch of these:
http://www.cutter.com.au/proddetail.php?prod=cut3317
I think 40w/sq. ft is also slightly too powerful for that space
unless you're supplementing with CO2, in which case, this would be perfect.
Re: Help me to build my dream setup!
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 12:17 pm
by Darkomatized
I have suggestion, would it work out if I replaced 72 of those with :
https://www.digikey.fi/product-detail/e ... ND/7907661
And could I still use the same drivers? I guess not I should do the math my self.
Re: Help me to build my dream setup!
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:45 pm
by DaveJonesFan
I think the 4 footers have different voltage, 40v. If you drove them with more suitable drivers, might be doable to mix and match and get similar current to each strip across the board.
You could do this setup with:
2 HLG-240H-20 derivative (A or B type for dimming) for the 560mm strips
2 HLG-480H-42 derivative for the 1120mm strips
Seems like a good iteration towards simplicity and could lower cost a tad as well, depending on the acquired driver cost.