FINALLY. They're here!
Now then, I wonder which tests I'm going to run?
Already did the quantum meter test and YEOWCH.
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FINALLY. They're here!
Now then, I wonder which tests I'm going to run?
Already did the quantum meter test and YEOWCH.
Nice!
Are they the same spectrums, just better diodes?
Yep! Same spectrum, same ratios, better diodes, plus anti-failure circuitry so if one diode fails the rest will continue to function as if nothing happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
The fans are a bit noisier than before, but this is a lot more power in the same spaces, so they need to move more air.
man,how much you payd for them:D
Hell he DESIGNED Them! ;)
khyberkitsune are they the same ones I brought from you UK distributer? The 165W? If they are could you post some of their technical details please? I don't have any info on their colour spectrum, diodes etc I just hoped they were as suitable as the 125W I orginally wanted before these others became suddenly available.
But the big question is what are you going to grow under those beauties?!
I'm curious, what kind of wattage per sq m grow room do you recommend for LED's?
Yes, they are. Technical details are 40:30:30 Blue:red:red 3w diodes single-chip diodes.Quote:
Originally Posted by rattlingdags
And the ones in the picture are GONE - I got robbed while doing a demonstration of the lights and had all three of my personal demo units stolen, so, I am unfortunately unable to grow anything under these, for now. Maybe on the next stock up,. :(
One meter by one meter? 300w LED would be quite nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntrepidSavage
WHA!!!!? :eek: That F'n SUX! I was lookin forward to what the 3w diodes would do.Quote:
Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
Any luck with the police?
I was literally in shock, I haven't contacted the police. I can't talk at all, my throat is ragged from constantly puking pure stomach acid since about 8AM-6PM, the only food my throat can even tolerate is soup/tea (anything solid and ESPECIALLY acidic pisses it right off.)Quote:
Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
I'm going to the station tomorrow.
I also know where the fuckers live so I'll get that handled soon enough.
I also have a tip on their 'brilliant' plan to sell my lights to the next-door dispensary.
But that place already knows I got robbed. :D So if they try it, they'll get busted.
OMG wtf :( Thats just horrible - what lowlife bast**ds. Oh I hope they get whats coming to them, damn parasites :mad:
I'm so very sorry this went and happened; and less importantly, I was really really looking forward to reading your future log using these lights.
Damn there's crappy people in the world. At least your ok-ish though; shaken up, shocked but alive. Thats the important thing so do take care of yourself.
Yea. I'm firmly stuck in PTSD right now from this. Trying to eat more, it's tough, weed isn't helping with the appetite.Quote:
Originally Posted by rattlingdags
But. I am going to pull another set of units out, and this time THEY STAY IN THE HOUSE.
So I will get something going, but not until mid-Feb when I'm finished doing a bit of globe-trotting over to the UK.
I expect the police aren't so helpful either?
Keep up with eating what you can, your health is more important especially with globetrotting plans :) .
Great to hear your already planning for new lights and thanks for the info on my ones. They've been great for growing very chunky, solid plants that really pile on the growth.
I'll get ya along with what ya have, no matter what lighting you have! :jointsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by rattlingdags
Dude im very sorry to hear this, i know you were itching to get them burning over some nice green:(. I hate thieves, they are selfish and lazy. I really hope you get em man.Quote:
Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
Good luck and keep us updated:thumbsup:
:rasta:
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Originally Posted by LetsSeeYa
The area I was in is a 'red-zone' so cops won't do a damned thing unless it involves a homicide. :(
So, I'm stuck. Short of forming my own gang and razing the entire apartment complex to the ground, there's nothing I can do to get these lights back.
Whats a ''red zone''? I live in the boonies so? To bad ya couldn't find people that dislikes the scum that ripped ya, tell em to get them back and you could do a donation to them? Not sure, it just sucks man and i really hate hearing this shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
Id keep an eye on them and when you get good dirt, id get the cops in and say, btw those are my lights!
Hang in there man:rasta:
wow, that really sucks. That's about a grand worth of hardware that some schmuck is runnin around with and the cops don't care.
Good luck and hang in there brother!
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Originally Posted by LetsSeeYa
Red Zone means "Near-lawless area, all officers are at risk" So they don't go unless there's a dire need, such as homicide or fire. Similar to Pizza Delivery Red-Zones - so much bad stuff has happened to their drivers that they don't deliver to those areas.
Well, those were the original prototype lights that were taken from me. Those were worth about $1500 a piece after R&D costs, so about $4500 in company property, technically.Quote:
Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
And they got my quantum meter :( $200 bucks of something they'll never know how to use.
Thanks for the support!
I had to open up a 300w unit and get a picture of it illuminated, at least!
I finished off routing out the NFT channel lids, and got my lights hung up.
I'm going to run with my old panels again. This time, I'm only gong to use 200w. I'm NOT going to add any more. I'm just going to see what 200w (50w per 2x2 area) across 54 clones will do. I don't have very high hopes, but I am willing to bet I will at least pop GPW status no problem.
I'll cut clones when I'm back from my business trip.
Nice to see you preparing for action again. That 300W looks very stylish.
Hope you have a successful trip in Blighty and I look forward to seeing your next grow :)
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Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
Dude im really glad your back on track and getting on with what you set out to do:thumbsup:. A lot of people told me to ''get over it'' after i was ripped last year, but i think its something that just needs to get out of your head before just moving on. But im glad your there and im sure it will not take much longer and you will get back into building that light you have been working so hard to get perfect, for your standards!
That 200w looks sweet man and 54 clones should get you a nice bunch of buds. I know il be watching man, i need all the LED info i can get, with me being all new to the inside growing and the LED'S. I have learned a bunch already from ya, but of course plenty more to improve. I posted that NL plant in the indoor section and if ya have time check it out, its looking great, just like you said it would so thanks for that.
But im just glad your back man:thumbsup:i know the feeling when you think your safe and some waste of space rips your shit, but moving on helped me and i think it will you too. Sometime things happen for a reason so maybe this will help in some messed up way, i sure am in your corner man:jointsmile:
Man ya ever think about getting a big ass dog? Most people will not even get close when they hear that nice deep ass bark! A German Shepperd would keep any and everything safe and iv had 5 in my life, they will protect you till their death and thats no shit.
Well glad ya got your lights up man, good luck with the business trip and give that dog idea a thought, ya got to many bad people around, not to mention your investments and health. Freaking cant believe ya cant even get a pizza, hell id starve, lol.
Take care bro:rasta:
Thanks man! I'd get a dog but I've got allergies, so I'm stuck with cats.Quote:
Originally Posted by LetsSeeYa
I was also at another friend's house when this robbery occurred, so maybe he should look into getting a dog!
Yea I'm going to get rolling here soon. I already picked myself up after I made back what was stolen within a week. I'm over all that (still planning on burning that whole meth hood down to the ground,) and I'm ready to get stuff done!
I've got a few clones in soil flowering right now under 50w. Doing pretty good, I think this batch might actually push past the GPW (god I hate using that term.)
Have a picture of the 9 clones - one looks a little half-screwed but the rest are okay minus a little nute issue - this is why I don't care much for soil except for mother plants.
I do em in individual quart containers, tho gallon's yield better ;)
The next time I do anything under the LED I'm planning a single plant in 3 gallons SCROGed! :pimp: Private stash stuff for sure.
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Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
Oh man that'll rock nicely!
So my main rig's GPU died. I took the heat sink off.
Look at this beast. Detach that side fan, saw down the brackets on both sides, and attach a fat 100w LED to the copper plate, with a fan on top of the heat sink.
Just need to get a 100w diode custom-made!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. :rastasmoke: I'm kinda thinking of doing my http://boards.cannabis.com/medical-s...illa-moon.html since it's such an interesting smell.Quote:
Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
I'm really curious how it'll do under LED!? Guess it's time for me to do another log huh? ;)
Sorry for the demijack there, How's the new panels compare to the older ones? Any kind of stats that a layman like myself would understand?:i feel stupid:
WTF exactly is that sitting in your lap?
New panels have better photon flux densities, naturally. true single-chip 3w diodes. 300w has an actual heatsink with fans while 165 and 135 are heat plates with fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
And what's in my lap is a heat sink from my 9800GTX+ video card from my computer. It's made to keep a TDP of 150w under control so this should work out VERY nicely if I can design an LED to attach to it. I want to make a 10x10 100w grid.
been reading a few posts and checking your pics. Seems like you really know what you are doing. Was wondering if you can offer a small piece of wisdom. I am a total newbie, never grew a single stem. But I am going to start very soon and i want to used LED. I was contemplating getting a 90 watt UFO from HTG on ebay. I read in your posts you design and build your own and wonder if you can tell me anything about their product or can steer me in the right direction. Of course they want to sell their product but they claim this thing is so great that if God needed an LED he would get theirs!
I would also use the UFO in conjunction with 4 CFL's. I am trying to do this thing right the first time. There are alot of things that can go wrong especially on my 1st grow so I want to get all the expert advice I can.
Pardon me for the late reply, I'm in the UK right now performing new tests on stuff with my boss.Quote:
Originally Posted by bkbbudz
I have used HTG. For a vegetative panel, it's good, but it needs more blue during the flowering stage IMHO. If you were to go with HTG, I would supplement with 6500K CFL or other efficient fluorescent type lamps.
Do not use the fluorescents for underlighting. Chlorophyll has a one-way reaction path, this has been proven in centrifugal-separated samples of chlorophyll. If you took a test tube of chlorophyll, put it in front of red and blue light (between you and the light source,) it would pass through and you'd see purple. If you were to place a light source at nearly your same position (say right at your side, you holding onto the lamp pole,) and hold the tube of chlorophyll in front of you and the light, you would get a majority of the light reflected back to you depending upon how little you disturb the test tube of centrifuged chlorophyll, and it would appear green. With this in mind, use the fluorescents for inner-canopy lighting if you have a deep canopy - just a simple tiny thin glass or plastic case to keep the plant from being burned will be sufficient without causing detrimental losses.
If you want to talk more about this personally, feel free to use the contact buttons that you see at the top right of each of my posts (AIM, Yahoo, Skype icons.) I might be slow to respond, depends on what I'm doing at that moment, but I will help you out. And if I can't, I'll direct you to Stra8outtaweed or Weezard, who will have a fair share of their own to say and can likely help you further on stuff I haven't done test-wise yet (They pretty much cover what I haven't done test-wise so they can give you the straight dope, no pun intended!)
I'm back from the UK!
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Hey welcome home :)
I was reading that companies website a while ago and was pretty impressed with the potential for that form of growing to provide suppliment livestock feed. Would have been something I would have wanted to try myself if it had been around a few years ago.
Looks like you had a good trip then :thumbsup:
Looks good bro! :thumbsup:
Quite a good trip, very productive, got TONS done in the space of three days.Quote:
Originally Posted by rattlingdags
Oh man, just wait! Soon we're going to be building one of these testing facilities here and I'm going to have to hire a few gardeners/maintainers.Quote:
Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
Cool man, glad to hear your trip went well:thumbsup:and im pumped to know ya got some green going on bro:jointsmile:
As always il be watching man:thumbsup:
:rasta:
Secret harvest finished!Quote:
Originally Posted by LetsSeeYa
This was done under 140w total of LED. Hindu skunk up close (9 clones force-flowered,) GDP the rest of the way down (one single plant vegged three weeks and flowered same time as clones.)
90w UFO for the GDP, 9 clones under a 50w micro-UFO. Both units using 1w diodes.
Can't wait to see the dry weight. The clones were done in soil, the GDP done in a 2 gallon DWC.
Greetings,
Been reading your posts and I wanted to get your opinion since you seem to be quite knowledgable. I m a newbie grower about too embark on my first adventure. I purchased a g3 90w UFO from HTG, what do you think of their product? I am using it in conjunction with 4 high wattage CFLs. My tent is 100% mylar interior and is 36"w x 20"d x 64"h. Thanks!
Price is too low to be any good, IMHO. Under $2/w? You're looking at cheap low-bin diodes and poor construction.Quote:
Originally Posted by bkbbudz