budderlvr Modular LED Project

[veggii]

bud lvlr I called and talk too Ledengin as I live close too them .I was gonna drive and get straight from them,but they want a huge purchase order todo business. I would call mouser and and try to setup purchase buy bin #
i would also grab atleast one of the 10 and one of 15 watters for experiment.
I was gonna build a 300 watter with the 10w bulbs. but major problems happened and have no $$ know. also have you seen the Enfis Quatro
well fuck know I cant find it anywhere fuck LEDS

http://www.sunshine-systems.com/specs/growpanelspec.pdf

[Opie Yutts]

fuck LEDS

I know how you feel. My LED project is on hold, but when I was into it man I went crazy. I felt like I just kept spinning my wheels trying to research and get stuff figured out. It doesn't help that this is a fairly new field. I found that if I just tried to forget about it for a couple days I could finally sleep at night, and when I got back to the project I had a fresh approach, new ideas, and solutions to problems.

[budderlvr]

So I tried a couple people at Mouser and got the same response as I was expecting from their e-mails. "Whats a BIN number?" or, "We disclose all of the information we have on a product on our website." I don't know anyone at Mouser so its unlikely that I will get further service than this.

I totally know how you guys feel. I am lucky and can sleep in when I need to, otherwise I would have been a zombie for the last 2 weeks. I swear thinking about LEDs occupies too much of my brain! So to take my mind off it, I bought a metal halide and a cool tube. Only 400watts, but at least I will have something to experiment with.

That said, do you think I could get anything out of just buying Red LEDs (having positions for blue on the board in the future)? I only want them to supplement the metal halide.

[budderlvr]

I really wanted to buy something today so I went to Ikea.
Hosle Wardrobe with Sliding Doors
I had been looking at tents and enclosures, but this was $99 at my local Ikea. I am going to cover the inside with Mylar, and have the air exit from the top shelf through carbon filters. The plan is to use a MH (might spring for a HPS, but the MH was free), and create a BOG style SCROG. The clones will be from an indica strain (which from what I have read does better in a SCROG type setup, and I have seen this strain grow both tall and also trained to grow bushy).

No new news on the LED front. I am going to focus on getting a benchmark with this enclosure using MH or HPS first. LED tests will probably happen in November or December.

[Opie Yutts]

It sucks when people that sell stuff don't even know what they're selling.

I do think you can grow weed with just red, which is of course more important than the blue. Many people grow weed with only 3000K fluorescents. Without blues your plants will end up stretching to some degree, and end up less bushy. It's not a problem as long as you are willing to work around it. Your yield will not be quite as high, but again, not a problem.

Instead of mylar I would paint the interior of the wardrobe flat white. It does a better job at reflecting and diffusing light. Also your walls will get dirty and the mylar will soon dull, and splashing another coat of paint on is easier than replacing the mylar.

Looking forward to your tests.