Pictures of your DIY lights - Post your pics!!!

BigYellowCob

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Ok, here's the lights I just built. The flowering space is in a used office cabinet I got from a used office furniture shop. The light is bolted to the ceiling, but I have 2"x32" strips of aluminum in the outer slots of the heat sink. The aluminum strips create a 'tunnel' for the air to flow through across the top of the heatsink, and a 92mm AC fan exhausts the heat out of the top of the cabinet, preventing the heat from dispersing through the cabinet. The lights are 3 Vero 29 3000k along with 6 Cree XTE Royal Blues to help balance the spectrum. At full power (1.05 amps) the cobs and leds pull 134 watts, which works out to 30w/sq ft. Here's a pic with the light dimmed.
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Also built a veg chamber with 2 Vero 18 5000k cobs running at 500ma. The Vero's are mounted on 2 old AMD heatsinks I had laying around from old computer builds. They are semi-passively cooled - there's no fans on the heatsinks, but the 120mm fan mounted between them blows air up and across them, and they stay very cool. I added a double pole double throw switch in the cob wiring so that I could run just 1 lamp or both with the flip of a switch. The veg chamber is a garage cabinet that I cleaned out and painted white. When I close the doors, both cabinets are somewhat stealthy.
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I hope to pop some beans in some soil here in about 2 weeks, and start testing out the new setup.
 

GFS_Nic

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Not as clean as many setups in here but it's my first step into the DIY world, i obviously need to clean up my wiring:

8 Vero29 v2 (2 * 4000K + 4 * 3000K) @ 1050mA (in a 80*80cm tent)

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25th day of 12/12:
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I will add 2 more 4000K when i will move the panel into the 1 square meter tent.

Peace
 
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robincnn

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:cry: I have the smallest DIY light
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18 X 9 X 12 inches box - 30cm 10 watts strip, passive anodized heatsink
Par at bottom plate is 100-150 µmol (photons) m-2 s-1
Mid point b/w light and bottom plate is 300-400 µmol (photons) m-2 s-1
May be i can get 1g/watt with scrog grow :weed:
Just kidding gonna keep this for seedlings and kitchen herbs
 

OneHitDone

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:cry: I have the smallest DIY light
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18 X 9 X 12 inches box - 30cm 10 watts strip, passive anodized heatsink
Par at bottom plate is 100-150 µmol (photons) m-2 s-1
Mid point b/w light and bottom plate is 300-400 µmol (photons) m-2 s-1
May be i can get 1g/watt with scrog grow :weed:
Just kidding gonna keep this for seedlings and kitchen herbs
I would like to know how this works out. If it would be good for a seedling/germination area
 

bicit

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:cry: I have the smallest DIY light
View attachment 3435720
18 X 9 X 12 inches box - 30cm 10 watts strip, passive anodized heatsink
Par at bottom plate is 100-150 µmol (photons) m-2 s-1
Mid point b/w light and bottom plate is 300-400 µmol (photons) m-2 s-1
May be i can get 1g/watt with scrog grow :weed:
Just kidding gonna keep this for seedlings and kitchen herbs
very interested to see your results. You should post your own thread.
 

REALSTYLES

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Looks like they deleted all but 5 of your posts.
Yep lol haters lol. I just posted I smashed Mars and I received this from 420magazine
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Really??? I joined on Friday 6-5-2015 and 12 posts later bam!!! You are banned!!! hahahahahha
 

Rahz

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I've posted my smaller lamp before. Here's my big one. 720 watts, using 23 Vero 18 @ 1.05amps. 45 watts per foot. the two rows of 4 in the middle are 4000K emitters and along with the center row of 5 3000K comprise one lamp. The two rows of 5 on the outside are 3000K and normally turned on at flower.

As you can see I'm about to try my hand at hempy with 1 gallon buckets, so may veg using both lamps, hoping for a perpetual grow but might end up having to do a 1 week veg.
 

AquariusPanta

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Yep lol haters lol. I just posted I smashed Mars and I received this from 420magazine
Hi REALSTYLES,

This message is to inform you that your posting privileges on 420
Magazine have been revoked. You have made your agenda clear, that you
are only here to continually bash our Sponsors, and have shown continual
disregard for our Posting Guidelines.

We don't have the capacity to verify or mediate these sorts of problems
and we feel it's unfair to leave accusations in public view. In the
past, competitors have been known to make fake accounts to post false
complaints, in an effort to tarnish each others reputation. Some have
even been known to complain about themselves, because they believe there
is no such thing as bad publicity. We remove these types of posts to
avoid the appearance of tacit approval. This also prevents us from
becoming known as a place to spread negative energy.

We sincerely wish you the best, but it just isn't a fit for you here.

No hard feelings, this isn't personal.

Respectfully,

Lester Freeman

Really??? I joined on Friday 6-5-2015 and 12 posts later bam!!! You are banned!!! hahahahahha
They were prepared for the Real... lol, but they can't have it too real or else they lose money.
 

testiclees

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Say guys the Vero 29 v2 will be in stock soon. Btw I joined 420magazine on Fri and 12 posts banned all because I said shit about Mars lights and they saw the video lol
dude 420 mag is bloated by the proceeds from led grow light profiteers. Ahole platinum dude rules the roost over there.

I had a whole journal deleted because i "featured" a grow light that was not a sponsor of 420. By featured they meant i described the virtues of my optic vero 360.

420 makes no secret of their grovelling for dollars philosophy.
 
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