LED growing- An instructional grow log

[SnSstealth]

thanks for the comments guys, but Im a sarcastic guy...lol. i never meant for WH or Opie to think they bothered me in any way...so if you guys think that.....dont. i appreciate you guys, and MVP and Rock (stay dirty!!!) none of you guys comment out your ass...you know what the hell your talkin about...and.... i think im done now.....
for now..
:jointsmile:
whiskeytango

[hatch]

SnSstealth, So I guess I'm one of the ones you are speaking of. If you have any problem with any of my post, Feel free to delete or redirect to the correct thread, And we will continue this topic. Later

[SnSstealth]

RODNEY KIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!! cant we all just get along......

[hatch]

Ah, gotta love that 'Preview Post' button, don't ya? Keep on trying the explanation, we'll get it eventually....:jointsmile:

Ya HEHEHE! I'm a no spelling dude,BOOBOO.

Alway's see it after the fact, We all have our hang-up's.

I'll do better I promise.

Yes, We can all get along! We are all in it together EH. Later

[physicsnole]

I have EXTENSIVELY researched growing with LED's and this is going to be my setup (open to thoughts...):

1200 LED array
-420nm,470nm,640nm,660nm,730nm
-Use 730nm to quickly convert Phytochrome-FR to Phytochrome-R which naturally takes 12 hours (hence the 12 hour light cycle). By doing this we can flower with shorter nights, meaning flowering with longer days, meaning more energy, and hopefully more bud!:thumbsup:
-vegetation=2:1 Blue:Red, flowering= 7:2 Red:Blue
-PCB's made by ExpressPCB
-Driven by 8 Maxim MAX6971 16-Port, 36V Constant-Current LED Drivers
-going to overdrive LED's at 55mA:rastasmoke:, but also creating up an astable oscillator circuit to pulse the LED's at about 20kHz, and have the duty cycle=10%, 1ms on-9ms off.
-UV-B lamps for even more serious bud:jointsmile:
-UV-C lamps disinfecting water supply
-Have an additional HPS light for flowering ONLY
-Use Dry Ice for CO2 enrichment and temperature control-AND only costs 60 cents a day!!(and when you CO2 enrich, you dont have to have ventilation[only circulation])

I do have a couple of questions though. Can you string different color LED's in a series. For example a series of 17 LED's 10 red and 7 blue. I have read you can but im not sure. And my friend is taking care of nutrition, he knows his stuff.

[physicsnole]

Oh ya im also using a Picaxe microcontroller to time and control the lights and pH level and flow valves....

[physicsnole]

And I think LED's are more ENERGY effecient than HPS lights, however HPS lights do the job better than MOST led grow lights

[SnSstealth]

are you using class 2 LEDs? are they CREE XLamp?...or something of equal quality. cause if you are making a board to grow efficiently, you need LEDs puttin out like 2w each. thats what i got in the procyon...i got 125w LED with only 60 lights...... and you can string colors my ration is 14 blue 46 red

[SnSstealth]

i need some help here WH, opie, mvp, rock...or someone whos been growing a while, cause ive never seen it. it looks like one of the planys self topped....its only 3 1/2 in tall, on its secong et of 5 leaves..its sprouting 3 instead of 2...all three with full stems....wierd? i tried putting the pics up...but sites pooping on me again.....
ill try with the pics a few more times
:smokebong:
whiskeytango

[Opie Yutts]

I have EXTENSIVELY researched growing with LED's and this is going to be my setup (open to thoughts...):

I do have a couple of questions though. Can you string different color LED's in a series. For example a series of 17 LED's 10 red and 7 blue.

I guess you did not research as extensively as you may have thought. You can string LED's in series or parallel, depending on your controllers and how you wire. Both ways have pros and cons. If you are going to do this you will need to read up more on the wiring aspect, or have someone else build them for you.

I hope you'll make a grow log and share with the class.