Yup I am still running this exact setup with the only change being that I've had to replace the dimmer potentiometer since the original was bad from the start. I've never had any condensation on the light panel, with an ambient (out of the tent) humidity of ~55%, I have a controller inside that runs the vent fan to keep it 60% humidity during the day and 70% humidity at night and it hasn't gotten out of hand. I even grew tomatoes in the tent in between my last grow and this one, which were the absolute worst in terms of how much moisture they transpire and the light was never a problem. The walls of the tent started to get mildew on them because the fan couldn't keep up, but the light remained fine.
This is my current grow. One plant taking the whole tent, three weeks into flower. I added those elastic grid trellis things this time and I bought a size too big (80cm x 80cm) so they're a bit saggy but getting the job done. You can see the light is at 179.3V and 1.095A for a total of 196W which works out to 214W at the wall. During veg 18h/4h, I ran half the panel at 50W and slowly ramped it up to the whole panel at 75W, then slowly up to 150W for the last week of veg. When I flipped 12/12 I turned it up to max power. Still a long way to go but starting to see trichomes.
The flashing I used I had to order from Amazon because I couldn't find the wider stuff locally, it is "AMERIMAX HOME PRODUCTS 66324 Aluminum Flashing" 24inx10ft 0.0078" thick and yeah I still have like 7.5ft of it sitting around. It was $17 shipped I think? There's more details about the light construction in the thread "
Keep adding more features, EB Gen2 build". My last grow I had a bit of an issue with it because I had a pretty uneven plant that exploded in the stretch, so two colas were pressed against the light panel bent over and the rest were 6-8" away. There was just nowhere for the plant to go! This time I got it pretty even.
This is only my fourth grow, the third with that panel, although it sees continuous use as I grow other things in it as well. Green peppers, thai chilies, san marzano tomatoes, spinach, lettuces, coriander, and french lavender. Only the tomatoes didn't do well, mostly because they were just out of control and it took near daily work to keep them pruned, the fan was really loud trying to keep the humidity down, and the tomatoes were kinda smallish even for san marzanos. I might have overcrowded the tent though with two plants now that I think about it.
Oh wait! I have made a change, I have an old Intel CPU heatsink fan stuck on top of the HLG-185H-C1050. It got pretty warm although not so hot I couldn't hold my hand on it indefinitely. I already had 12V coming to run the controller and far red LEDs so I just tacked it on with a knob so it barely runs.
