$2 f-series strips

Nappertunity said:

Anyone who picked up extra for 3rd party sales, let me know.

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What part of the world are you in?

DIYLED UK ( @diyled on this forum) had them up on his website a few days ago, 3 strips for £10 plus shipping.



He likely sold through those strips as they're no longer on his website. If you're in his neck of the woods though, it may be worth it to ask if he snagged any more before they became unavailable in small quantities on Arrow's website.

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Barristan Whitebeard said:

What part of the world are you in?

DIYLED UK ( @diyled on this forum) had them up on his website a few days ago, 3 strips for £10 plus shipping.

He likely sold through those strips as they're no longer on his website. If you're in his neck of the woods though, it may be worth it to ask if he snagged any more before they became unavailable in small quantities on Arrow's website.

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Still got loads left just cheaper to get off arrow at the moment. wasnt trying ot make a profit on them just help distribute them as cheap as possible.

diyled said:

Still got loads left just cheaper to get off arrow at the moment. wasnt trying ot make a profit on them just help distribute them as cheap as possible.

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They may be cheaper per unit, but Arrow has gone back to a MOQ of 150 strips at the moment.

Barristan Whitebeard said:

They may be cheaper per unit, but Arrow has gone back to a MOQ of 150 strips at the moment.

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Ill leave them up in the clearance section for those that want them. Id do them cheaper if i could but i do have costs to cover.

Barristan Whitebeard said:

They may be cheaper per unit, but Arrow has gone back to a MOQ of 150 strips at the moment.

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Got mine today. 50x 4000K F-series. And I owe you an apology, because these are FR-4 not aluminium So either they changed the specs from a couple of years ago, or I've been smoking too much weed and my memory is shot. I'll check on the previous builds I did later to make double sure I wasn't dreaming, as I built them for a couple of friends and no longer have them here. Sorry for the bum steer.

Prawn Connery said:

Got mine today. 50x 4000K F-series. And I owe you an apology, because these are FR-4 not aluminium So either they changed the specs from a couple of years ago, or I've been smoking too much weed and my memory is shot. I'll check on the previous builds I did later to make double sure I wasn't dreaming, as I built them for a couple of friends and no longer have them here. Sorry for the bum steer.

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TNT must have been busy today delivering strips all over the country got mine as well

Anyone started building a light? Wondering is there a driver that will power just single light. I am thinking of making a daisy chain-able veg light.

I placed two orders to the UK 3 days apart, second one landed here but first order is still stuck in Netherlands which is quite confusing. Such a great deal, wish I could of got more to store for the future. Hopefully the rest land soon..

Hey guys, I know some led more then others emit uv, I’m not a led guy like mentioned but will these take the place of a cmh fixture? I was going to upgrade my mh which I run with my 1k DE with cmh, but if I can supplement with these, that would be better. I don’t need them for veg, just for spectrum in bloom.

bob_ross said:

Anyone started building a light? Wondering is there a driver that will power just single light. I am thinking of making a daisy chain-able veg light.

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I've played around with these strips and a cheap re-purposed driver from a blurple light, but still haven't actually purchased (if I end up not using these free drivers I have on hand) drivers or started any kind of build with them yet. I think it all comes down to what size area you are trying to veg and how hard you want to run each strip though. Since the strips were so cheap, running them soft and not having to worry about heatsinking seems to be the way to go from what I've gathered. I think it was @sethimus that recently said something to the effect that if the heatsinking would cost more than the strip itself, just run more strips softer.

I'm not really familiar with "daisy chaining" at all, so can't really offer an opinion on driver selection for your specific purpose, but I have been looking at the meanwell xlg series drivers as a possibility. They have a wide voltage range and the A versions have onboard dimming at a decent price point so that's appealing to me. Just my 2 cents though and hope it all goes well for you when you get around to setting it up.

Prawn Connery said:

Got mine today. 50x 4000K F-series. And I owe you an apology, because these are FR-4 not aluminium So either they changed the specs from a couple of years ago, or I've been smoking too much weed and my memory is shot. I'll check on the previous builds I did later to make double sure I wasn't dreaming, as I built them for a couple of friends and no longer have them here. Sorry for the bum steer.

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We used them at launch for over a year. Always been FR4 mate.

Still havent built any lights myself, but I gave a buddy 12 strips and he just got them wired up today, he says they're not firing on. Anyone else have issues with their orders from Arrow? Trying to help diagnose his problem and this is all I got haha... I dont know and havent checked his wiring situation, but he has built two lights before...

vitalsine said:

Still havent built any lights myself, but I gave a buddy 12 strips and he just got them wired up today, he says they're not firing on. Anyone else have issues with their orders from Arrow? Trying to help diagnose his problem and this is all I got haha... I dont know and havent checked his wiring situation, but he has built two lights before...

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I fired some up no problem a few times just testing things out. I'm no expert in anything, but I'd bet something else is off, not the strips. I'm sure someone could help if you got some pics of the set up.

loco41 said:

I fired some up no problem a few times just testing things out. I'm no expert in anything, but I'd bet something else is off, not the strips. I'm sure someone could help if you got some pics of the set up.

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I'll have him send me some pics.

Also, I told him that it being the strips is unlikely, as Arrow is a huge international supplier with a great reputation.

vitalsine said:

I'll have him send me some pics.

Also, I told him that it being the strips is unlikely, as Arrow is a huge international supplier with a great reputation.

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if you can tell us which strips, driver, and wiring (serial or parallel) he is using we can maybe figure it out that way too.

Damn, back up to $23.

ilovereggae said:

if you can tell us which strips, driver, and wiring (serial or parallel) he is using we can maybe figure it out that way too.

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It's the same F series strips posted by OP, 4000k. I am waiting to hear back from him about driver/wiring, hopefully he sends some pics.

That's crazy cheap. I'm temped to build a light even though I don't need anymore right now, lol.

vitalsine said:

It's the same F series strips posted by OP, 4000k. I am waiting to hear back from him about driver/wiring, hopefully he sends some pics.

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I bet you anything its badly wired, series for a CV/parallel driver. Full pics and model nr of the driver and this should be solved.