growing experiment: vegging one of my plants using a wire frame and a 5050 RGB LED strip light.

BobCajun

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They all have 120° beam angle supposedly, i dont know that for certain yet. I just laid out a 5 meter roll of the thicker waterproof stuff and it uses up 3.5" x 24", so 0.7 sq ft and i think this one is 36w, so i could squeeze a bit over 50 watts per sq ft out of this stuff. That would be toward the lower end in terms of wattage. The run anywhere from 15w to 144w per 5m roll, so much higher wattage per square foot can be achieved. Really though, you'd probably do better measuring output in lumens instead of wattage, watts are really only useful for determining LM/w efficiency these days.
120° would be alright I think. Though a strip or two don't put out much PAR, a bunch of them might. This is new ground, high density light strips. I think you're actually supposed to mount the strips on heatsinks though, aren't you? You probably have to mount them on aluminum heatsink plates, at least the ones with decent output.
 
Finished product will contain 3,000 warm white diodes and 600 purple/pink (havent decided yet). This is all mounted to a 2'x2' sheet of aluminum. Total weight is about 4lbs and runs at id estimate 80 degrees farenheit without any cooling/heatsink required. should be operational by tomorrow. will post pics of course.
 

Cyrus420

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Finished product will contain 3,000 warm white diodes and 600 purple/pink (havent decided yet). This is all mounted to a 2'x2' sheet of aluminum. Total weight is about 4lbs and runs at id estimate 80 degrees farenheit without any cooling/heatsink required. should be operational by tomorrow. will post pics of course.
Where is it? DUDE I NEED TO SEE THIS!
 

Se7enRemedies

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Not to bump an old thread, but that last post has me wanting to know more. How did that 3600 led setup turn out? Did you burn your house down!? I need to know!
 
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