Having some fun with random junk - DIY chinese 100W LED

MJCanada

MJCanada

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I have had these 50W LED chips, and drivers kicking around for quite a while. Bought them to run at my ice shack and decided to buy real floods.

Anyway, I was thinking of mainlining my 2 plants, and thought "hmm maybe I should make the first cuts clones" (when you mainline you cut off 3 nodes... perfect cloner).

So, I don't have a clone box, and I started scavenging...

This light has about $30 in it. I didn't need to buy anything to make it, just $30 of junk kicking around my work bench...

2 CPU headsinks. Both the fans were dead on them(I may have plugged them into a high current circuit last time I used them and burned out the fans :P)
2 Case fans, blue LEDs in them
2 pieces of left over aluminum.
2 ziplock square containers (hahahahahah)
zip ties
Foil tape
old blackberry phone charger(for 12V to run the case fans)
old lamp plug
screw down wire connectors
electrical tape

About an hour of my time and this is what I made!

Doing a test run right now to see if it'll burn my house down :P
 

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MJCanada

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May try some clones in here :P

Will have to pick up some mylar or grab some tinfoil or something.

At the very least, I'm gonna toss some of my herbs in here and see how they do.20170730_213844.jpg
 
nfhiggs

nfhiggs

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MJCanada said:
I have had these 50W LED chips, and drivers kicking around for quite a while. Bought them to run at my ice shack and decided to buy real floods.

Anyway, I was thinking of mainlining my 2 plants, and thought "hmm maybe I should make the first cuts clones" (when you mainline you cut off 3 nodes... perfect cloner).

So, I don't have a clone box, and I started scavenging...

This light has about $30 in it. I didn't need to buy anything to make it, just $30 of junk kicking around my work bench...

2 CPU headsinks. Both the fans were dead on them(I may have plugged them into a high current circuit last time I used them and burned out the fans :P)
2 Case fans, blue LEDs in them
2 pieces of left over aluminum.
2 ziplock square containers (hahahahahah)
zip ties
Foil tape
old blackberry phone charger(for 12V to run the case fans)
old lamp plug
screw down wire connectors
electrical tape

About an hour of my time and this is what I made!

Doing a test run right now to see if it'll burn my house down :P
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Awesome! Love me some ghetto DIY! I put my strip light together with RTV! :
https://imgur.com/a/i1Ti3
 
MJCanada

MJCanada

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Is that girl just LST or did you get more aggressive?

Those 2 stems jetting out to the side almost look like a manifold but it's hard to tell with all the fan leaves!
 
nfhiggs

nfhiggs

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MJCanada said:
Is that girl just LST or did you get more aggressive?

Those 2 stems jetting out to the side almost look like a manifold but it's hard to tell with all the fan leaves!
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Supercropped/LST is all I did. She looked like this before I put her in there:
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Once she stretches out some I will prune the undergrowth and clean her up.
 
MJCanada

MJCanada

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Dude! I didn't even notice you were running hydro out of a kitty litter bucket and a cut off laundry soap container HAHAHAHA... awesome!
 
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