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Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:24 am
by Frank Cannon
Well since the LavaLord has graced us with his appearance I'll post a few pics off whats up in the land of the long smoky cloud. We do speak English in New Zealand - land of the mighty All Blacks and Americas Cup, but it is a strange dialect down under so you will struggle with our terminology.
I am on my third LED grow after my first Sensei Master Mr Prawn Connery converted me from HPS. In case you are wondering who the third Sensei Master is, it is none other than the legendary St Randomblame, hopefully they swing through too!
Here is a pic of my 2nd grow using the HLG 96 engines 2 weeks after flip - awesome lights!!
My slippery slope to LEDS started here, some good info offered to me in this thread:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/5-x-5-light-set-up.978296/
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 7:33 am
by Frank Cannon
Moving along now, Prawn conned me and OG into trying his new "High Lights" boards he built. I went with his 2 colour HighRed panels - in a nutshell:
[*]The boards measure 415mm x 205mm x 2mm (aluminium) and have 450 LEDs
[*]Two high CRI LEDs for a nominal 2700K
A couple of threads on his panels and efficiency tests:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/high-lights- ... ia.988805/
https://www.rollitup.org/t/high-light-e ... -2.989161/
So not being backwards in going forwards and always keen to get myself in a cluster f$%k I came up with my own design - Ok I got the idea from Randomblame for heatsinks (which incidentally are not required at the power I am driving them at) my Vesuvious sinks have been designed to mount his panels but also a recess to run Arcadia T5s
The Cannon Fodder control ctr, remote mounted drivers etc
Which brings me to here, 1 week after flip, plants and me both alive which is remarkable really
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:05 am
by unkle_psycho
Beautiful! looks like a pretty heavy fixture... did you need help hanging it?
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:13 am
by TEKNIK
Very very neat set up. You should get some great results with the added UV, makes it look like it was made for it.
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:33 am
by Frank Cannon
unkle_psycho wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:05 am
Beautiful! looks like a pretty heavy fixture... did you need help hanging it?
Its 4 individual fixtures so I can adjust heights easily depending on plant requirements and if I go some sort of perpetual grow in the future. Sink is 3mm Ally, i would guess each fixture weighs in at about 2-3 kgs
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:35 am
by Frank Cannon
Thanks TK, not much OCD in the Sth Island cuz
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:27 am
by Or_Gro
Frank Cannon wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 7:33 am
Moving along now, Prawn conned me and OG into trying his new "High Lights" boards he built. I went with his 2 colour HighRed panels - in a nutshell:
[*]The boards measure 415mm x 205mm x 2mm (aluminium) and have 450 LEDs
[*]Two high CRI LEDs for a nominal 2700K
A couple of threads on his panels and efficiency tests:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/high-lights- ... ia.988805/
https://www.rollitup.org/t/high-light-e ... -2.989161/
So not being backwards in going forwards and always keen to get myself in a cluster f$%k I came up with my own design - Ok I got the idea from Randomblame for heatsinks (which incidentally are not required at the power I am driving them at) my Vesuvious sinks have been designed to mount his panels but also a recess to run Arcadia T5s
P1.jpg
Ves 1.jpg
The Cannon Fodder control ctr, remote mounted drivers etc
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Which brings me to here, 1 week after flip, plants and me both alive which is remarkable really
Gonna have to organize my electricals someday....
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 9:06 am
by Frank Cannon
Allo Allo, whats going on here then?
In collaboration with @themadGermanScientist I bring my latest Kiwi cock up....
5000K H_Influx L09 strips:
Cutter ZGE-280-SXP Customs: Cree XPE-2 475nm Blue(2) Semileds 420nm Violet(3) and Cree XPG-3 Photo Red, 660nm(5):
Stop it Prawn, I know you are flapping your tail and shaking your head at me
it's an addiction yeah?
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 10:38 am
by Or_Gro
So what do those things do?
Re: Cannon Fodder
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:06 pm
by Frank Cannon
Patience Coalhopper, remember we talked about blue light and nodal spacing in the Windtunnel .....