4x4 tent: 6 x QB96 Elites + UVA + (I need help with FR and RB build)

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ms_sucks

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This is an evolving plan but I'm trying to get things narrowed down now so that I can pull the trigger.

I don't know where the UVA/UVB cutoff is off the top of my head. I think I want to stay away from UVB.

That being said, I am open to sprinkling in another UVA spectrum or two on those two UVA sticks if it's beneficial. Could be 3 ea of 4 different nms or 4ea of 3 different nms. What do you recommend?
 
Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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ms_sucks said:
This is an evolving plan but I'm trying to get things narrowed down now so that I can pull the trigger.

I don't know where the UVA/UVB cutoff is off the top of my head. I think I want to stay away from UVB.

That being said, I am open to sprinkling in another UVA spectrum or two on those two UVA sticks if it's beneficial. Could be 3 ea of 4 different nms or 4ea of 3 different nms. What do you recommend?
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Well it's pretty simple:
zl_spectrograph.jpg
 
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ms_sucks

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welight said:
Hi MS
my avatar shows our 285mm(1ft) strip, this has 12 leds but can be run as 2 channels of 6 leds, so we can make with CREE XPE-2 FR on 1 channel and Cree XPG-3 RB on the other, and you can either run them as 12 in series for a fixed ratio of both colours or run two drivers and control/dim each separately. You will find a FR/RB board in the variations list
www.cutter.com.au

Cutter-ZGE-285-DXP-Custom Zhaga MCPCB, 285mm - Cutter Electronics

Cutter-ZGE-285-DXP-Custom is a 2 channel tuneable high power MCPCB and as such uses a full Aluminium MCPCB, 285mm x 1.6mm, Solderless
www.cutter.com.au www.cutter.com.au
Cheers
Mark
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I know this is an old thread, but life happened and I had to sideline all this. Now I'm back and ready to start ordering. Do you have this same thing but in 570mm strips?
 
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ms_sucks

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Airwalker16 said:
I'd say do about 15% of your total wattage. So 7.5% each color. It's not about how many leds, but how many leds you spread that wattage over.
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So lets use simple numbers. For example if I was going to run 1000w to the QB96's I'd need an additional 225w for these supplemental spectrums?
75w - UVA
75w - 450nm
75w - 730nm

Edit to add:
Or 15% total for supplemental spectrums? So 50w each in this example.
 
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