First run using strips. What yall think?

foreverflyhi

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Sunbar Strips v1 from r2t, 960watts. Paid about 550 usd with shipping. Saved money by opting out of the v2 (better heatsink) and opting out of the frame plus parts. Used some greenhouse aluminium bars for frame with zip ties to hang bars, hahaha yea I'm kinda broke atm. Roughly 5x7' grow (still working on room). About 300g of recycled living soil. Strain is My own raspberry kush mother cross with mosca's raspberry moonshine stud I hunted. This is my fifth run with her so I know how well she performs in almost all environments, from greenhouse, to outdoor to HPS. Should be expecting large dense blue/purple colas with a deep rasberry blueberry muffin skunk smell. Week 2ish.
Stay tuned, will also be starting a greenhouse light dep with sunbars in the next coming weeks. Anyways, critiques, suggestions welcome.
(Will be adding r2t newest bars with 301h/351h/xpe2/lg UV to fill in any space outside my current canopy footprint.)

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foreverflyhi

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Rocket Soul said:
Following :)

If you have temp fluctuations in your outdoor setup its important to watch out for dew/humidity, especially on your connections. Liquid electric tape should fix it.
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I was thinking about that. Best I can due is add heat at night and early morning to combat dew point. I'll look into a dehu, but combating pacific northwest humidity in a greenhouse with a dehu is not easy. . But great advice, will look into liquid electric tape. Was also thinking of setting up a separate box that is weather proof for the drivers.
 
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foreverflyhi said:
I was thinking about that. Best I can due is add heat at night and early morning to combat dew point. I'll look into a dehu, but combating pacific northwest humidity in a greenhouse with a dehu is not easy. . But great advice, will look into liquid electric tape. Was also thinking of setting up a separate box that is weather proof for the drivers.
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You should also protect the connection with the leds.
 
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end_of_the_tunnel said:
Looking beautiful. Few Q's. Curious about base components and drainage in your soil? How regular you watering?
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Base components of build? Sorry not sure what you mean by that.
Drainage is great, I never have run off, and that's because I use blumats. I hand water once a week with teas (rotate), botanicals, fish, imbellio and humid acid just to name a few. But for the most part, watering is a non issue due to blumats. I'll post a picture of them a little later.
 
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foreverflyhi said:
Base components of build? Sorry not sure what you mean by that.
Drainage is great, I never have run off, and that's because I use blumats. I hand water once a week with teas, botanicals, fish, imbellio and humid acid just to name a few. But for the most part, watering is a non issue due to blumats. I'll post a picture of them a little later.
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Question for ya how long did it take you to dial in your Blumats so u got no run off
 
Gond00s

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It’s my second one my first one I really rigged it but it works lol only used two pieces of aluminum to screw the strips to I’m almost done with my second one rn I just gotta wire it and boom bobs your uncle but got a lot of crews coming in prob gonna but even more for my room moving to a 10/10 almost I got half the lighting done already I just gotta do the other half
 
foreverflyhi

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Gond00s said:
Question for ya how long did it take you to dial in your Blumats so u got no run off
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Well, here's the thing, in sure you know blumats have different size carrots. When I first got my first set (years years ago) they where smaller for 10g pots. That's when I had a issue with them and had a couple floods. This was my fault and didn't take depth into consideration. Now most of my set up is wider, not deeper. I've upgrade both In size of carrorts and blumats extra emitters plus blumat's blusoak tape also blumats water pressure regulator which is connected directly to my water hose line at medium pressure. This basically is full proof and keeps my soil perfectly balanced.
 
foreverflyhi

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What up don sorry for late reply. Strips are from r2t on alibaba. 301b Samsung's with 660 cree far reds, about 12 strips pumping 900 watts. Sourced everything on amazon for extremely cheap.
 
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