$$Cheap-chinese$$ diy led panels

How much did all the materials cost?

I, for one, admire folks like you that take the time to research and construct your own lights.

Well done, and best of luck.

Hi wilksey... id say around 100$$$ but its bout to get more leds just waittin for led psu to test... and as soon as my thermometer comes ill be able to give more accurate readings.... also i want to add the lens soon too and will be testing the 100 watt multichip and probably get cheap chinese cobs soon too... my goal is to see the lumen drop over time really test if its ok or good enough to grow with over name brands like cree and so on

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And the price on chinese leds has been dropping hopefully not the quality... so its only getting cheaper to go with chinese leds

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Hello everybody or anybody out there in R.I.U land i wanted to do a pic update

As yu can see the difference in four weeks of being under this cheap chinese light i would say im almost sold on the fact that they do produce but i noticed a lumen drop since day one... now id say theres atleast a 10% to 20% lumen loss due maybe to heat or low quality not sure but i doubt its the heat... most likely the bin




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And no mj there just yet im debating on trying dwc for first time or staying organic or doing organic dwc with autos... also plan on getting colliodal silver to make my own automatics

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I got some new gear in the mail pretty exciting.... This is a 50 watt warm white and will be using a 30 watt driver

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Got my baseplate which im still undecided if ill go with 3 or 5 watt diodes... finding the right heatsink and driver too will be a job in itself.... i was gonna do 1 watt but i rather push it harder

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Also got a couple drivers to test so ill be almost done my first light in a month or so

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So i put my the new light into my cab

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The new 50watt warm white running @ 30 watts 1Amp

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Just an update pic the garden is looking like a lil jungle

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Well hopefully these beans survive and we can finally get this show on the road

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Seems pretty lonely over here not much action but its about to pick up real quick... were gonna see what kind of buds this cheap chinese light will make

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subb'd lets see you grow some buds

great thread.

Yea buddy heres a sneak peek k

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This been under 460- 470nm blue and 6500k cool blue for a week

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Sorry didnt give ya details but i put three bag seeds in dirt a week ago i have to post a pic today in a couple hours

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Wanted to let everybody know i had spider mites and im just waittin till i get a new batch of seeds... but this time ill be going with an auto instead of photo period

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So ive been using the 100 watt multichip and its replaced a two hundred watt floro tubes... and the ladies have responded well id say

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