I know a place where I can get them already reflowed on a tri-star MCPCB. Google Luxeon Tri stars.:thumbsup:
A good reference grow is the first link when you google "growing cannabis with LED".
I decided to half the power of LED's and add a 30W+ CFL. The lights+ballast for three tri-stars and a 2.1A driver is a hundred bucks, so I thought I'd keep it simple. Or... I've been thinking lately, in order to boost up my efficiency should I run six parallel Tri-stars with the 2.1A driver? I'm planning on getting a 24V 5A+ power supply for the driver.
Chris, if money is a problem, just get less far reds. I've been looking into grows and far red seems to help flowering especially.
What I posted on 'Calling out to Weezard for LED advice':
in order to lower costs, I'm only going with half the LED's for the single rubbermaid grow box. Should be around 22w, but I'll probably put in a decent powered CFL to make up for the rest of the spectrum. I'm pretty sure 22W will do fine, Pinstripe over at ICmag got 38g from 22W in a PC box (Anyone that respects any grow should check that out, crazy micro grow, probably the best documented one), and I'm going to be using his technique (LST) and further improving it with a SCROG.
The LED's and the drivers are going to be 100 shipped. I've been looking at Phillips Lumileds Rebel LED's, specifically three of them, mounted on a MCPCB (called Tri-star). I'm going to have 1 royal blue and two far reds on each tri-star, what do you guys think?