I was being more pissy than practical. Cannabutter is actually my preferred method of cannabis consumption, so yeah, that's probably where the popcorn will end up. I'll vape some to try it out, and if it has any potency at all it'll go into the butter.
Dude. I've been expecting you! Been watching your "like" alerts all day and figured you were either hard-up for "like" points, or you were enthusiastic about what you were reading. From your post, I suspect it's the latter.
Yeah, no kidding. During my first grow I posted my newbie questions on another forum and while I generally got a few answers, nothing of the quality and positivity that I've experienced here on RIU. These folks have been great and I wouldn't have been semi-successful had it not been for their help.: said:
However limited my experience might be, it's worth pointing out a couple of things that I didn't anticipate. First, leverage the capability of spreading the strips out over the whole grow area. Look back a couple of pages on this tread and you'll see my discussions about spacing out the strips over the whole scrog canopy. Doing so will assure optimal light spread over the entire grow area, not jut the middle.: said:
Dude. I'm here.Dude. I've been expecting you! Been watching your "like" alerts all day and figured you were either hard-up for "like" points, or you were enthusiastic about what you were reading. From your post, I suspect it's the latter.
I checked out your concurrent thread and you're paralleling my situation pretty closely. If you go with the EB's -- which I highly recommend for a number of reasons -- you are gonna fall in love with these lights. There's no doubt you can get a bit higher efficiency with QB's or Sammy H-series, but as you've pointed out, going to the cutting edge will come a much higher cost, and a year from now there will be something with incrementally better specs, but at a multiple of the cost, much as the QB's and H-series are now. Just depends on your priorities.
Yeah, no kidding. During my first grow I posted my newbie questions on another forum and while I generally got a few answers, nothing of the quality and positivity that I've experienced here on RIU. These folks have been great and I wouldn't have been semi-successful had it not been for their help.
However limited my experience might be, it's worth pointing out a couple of things that I didn't anticipate. First, leverage the capability of spreading the strips out over the whole grow area. Look back a couple of pages on this tread and you'll see my discussions about spacing out the strips over the whole scrog canopy. Doing so will assure optimal light spread over the entire grow area, not jut the middle.
Secondly, when I was first ramping up 6 months ago, I struggled with how to setup the 4 small fans I had in order to give my girls circulation and movement. Trying to optimize for space in a 2x4 grow area resulted in the fans taking up precious floor space and hanging from the walls, etc, and even then they only did a half-ass job and I had to keep adjusting them. Now, with the aluminum frame, I just picked up 2 x 19" fans from Home Depot for $20 apiece, and laid them face down on the light frame (you can see them in some of my photos). This way, they keep the lights cool, and also blow down through the frame to keep the air moving through the plants below. It's all the circulation I need. Just be sure to build your frame using 0.125" x 1 x 1 angle-aluminum. The heavier metal provides a better heat sink, and gives the structure you need to support fans, or whatever else you want to put above the plants.
I'm happy to answer questions or provide input on your design.
Tham strips r 700mahps. U doing parallel or series but you got a 1000 million driver mah
As has been pointed out previously, that's the beauty of DIY. Each of our situations is a bit different and we can customize these things to suit our needs.My perspective on the fans is slightly different to yours...
How u do that make a post in a post so u dont keep makeing new post so if u say somethinking i can say something back an not make a now post lmk if u no i seen how he did that in ur postDude. I've been expecting you! Been watching your "like" alerts all day and figured you were either hard-up for "like" points, or you were enthusiastic about what you were reading. From your post, I suspect it's the latter.
I checked out your concurrent thread and you're paralleling my situation pretty closely. If you go with the EB's -- which I highly recommend for a number of reasons -- you are gonna fall in love with these lights. There's no doubt you can get a bit higher efficiency with QB's or Sammy H-series, but as you've pointed out, going to the cutting edge will come a much higher cost, and a year from now there will be something with incrementally better specs, but at a multiple of the cost, much as the QB's and H-series are now. Just depends on your priorities.
Yeah, no kidding. During my first grow I posted my newbie questions on another forum and while I generally got a few answers, nothing of the quality and positivity that I've experienced here on RIU. These folks have been great and I wouldn't have been semi-successful had it not been for their help.
However limited my experience might be, it's worth pointing out a couple of things that I didn't anticipate. First, leverage the capability of spreading the strips out over the whole grow area. Look back a couple of pages on this tread and you'll see my discussions about spacing out the strips over the whole scrog canopy. Doing so will assure optimal light spread over the entire grow area, not jut the middle.
Secondly, when I was first ramping up 6 months ago, I struggled with how to setup the 4 small fans I had in order to give my girls circulation and movement. Trying to optimize for space in a 2x4 grow area resulted in the fans taking up precious floor space and hanging from the walls, etc, and even then they only did a half-ass job and I had to keep adjusting them. Now, with the aluminum frame, I just picked up 2 x 19" fans from Home Depot for $20 apiece, and laid them face down on the light frame (you can see them in some of my photos). This way, they keep the lights cool, and also blow down through the frame to keep the air moving through the plants below. It's all the circulation I need. Just be sure to build your frame using 0.125" x 1 x 1 angle-aluminum. The heavier metal provides a better heat sink, and gives the structure you need to support fans, or whatever else you want to put above the plants.
I'm happy to answer questions or provide input on your design.
Ah yes, another proud member of the "Stingy Fucker" club. At current prices you're not gonna go wrong with the EBs. I see other noobs like me on other threads asking what light they should get and amongst all of the recommendations for HPS or some expensive LED pre-builts or packages, I've gotta bite my keyboard to keep from extolling the virtues of these Bridgelux jewels.
Yeah, wish I could answer this for you. I chose all 4000k based on this graph from the data sheet:klx: said:
Not positive what you're asking, Dude, but if it's "How do you have multiple quotes in your reply?", then you just have to check out what happens when you click "reply" on someone's post. You'll note that the quoted text is surrounded by QUOTE tags. All you do is put your own QUOTE tags around whatever portion of text you want to set off as a separate quote, then insert your reply and go on to the next section you want to quote. Not a good explanation, but maybe some experimentation would help you.
@graying.geek thankyou for sharing, you have inspired myself and will be building the start of my veg light tonight, just cutting the aluminium to sit lengthways on my fixture 
You'd best pick up some SPF 30 sun block next time you're at the store. You're gonna need it.WooHoo! Delivered in 4 days to Aus
So are the results in for the whole 2x4 scrog?You'd best pick up some SPF 30 sun block next time you're at the store. You're gonna need it.
Heh, just finished the final weigh-in yesterday, and yup, and I think it was you who nailed the "best guess" estimate of the yield: 293 g (10.3 oz). Despite being 4 clones, I ended up harvesting in 3 phases over the course of the past 10 days. The plant that was most unaffected by the LED burn was the last to die and -- no surprise here -- yielded the fattest, densest buds. After test-vaping samples (yes, multiple sample; one has to be sure
) the buds from the first 2 harvests kicked my ass with equal intensity, so despite the disappointing size, I've realized the desired effect -- a good night sleep. 
I'm letting the 3rd harvest cure for a few days before sampling it, but I have high hopes. Here's my inspiration:
