Cheap and Cheerful DIY using Citizen cobs

CobKits said:

if you do a search there are hundreds of posts about them

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Haha sorry i ment the new ones coming out (price n availability). Its ok tho. U answered it for someone else anyway. Thanks

got pricing today. more expensive than the gen 6s

i need to do a test to see if they are worth the higher price they are asking. its possible they have little to no advantage in our typical low-current application

Oke waiting on the results, building a second room now and I will need around 14k led. Heard that citizen is comming with a new gen that gives around 5% more
light. In practise thats around 2% increase in net weight.And thats really nice, 6 rounds and thats for me around 10grand in extra profit

Unfortunately the new Citizen's are a new line, not the next gen. The line is call HC (high current). I have been told the HC's use larger Nicha dies. These are looking to be best at high current. The new pricing for CDIWEB is $52 for the 1825 and $93 for the 3618. The strange thing I noticed is they produce the same lumen output @ 150 watts.
As for the dimmers, if you are looking for quality dimmers, they are usually between $20- 30 each. These pots are all consistent throughout the sweep. The $2 one's slowly start to change and then fail.
More testing to see if the improvement warrants the price.

Good pots are expensive.

Hello, a year ago that I follow the forum and I have read it several times but now I have a question that I think has already been discussed in this thread but I would like to know if there is more real experience.
I placed an order of 10 clu048-1212 3500 90 cri serie 6 and I realize now that it's Below B.B.L. Model
The exact model is CLU048-1212C4-353H6M3-F1
And I searched for info and I can not find much about Below B.B.L. and how it would affect horticulture.
this led me to write, maybe it is for a new topic or if it has already proven that differences would have an 80 series 6 cri for example, I think it would be a good topic
Thank you very much and happy holidays !

it is a subtle difference, beyond color temp or CRI. spectrums are literally almost identical between onBBL and below BBL

wont affect horticulture in the slightest

Hi.. I readed, that gen7 CLU049 ,,Comin soon! ,,
www. Lightingcompass.com/citizen.aspx

clu049 are available now they are not gen 7, they are a different line, the 'high current' series