My damn OCD takes over and try to make it look clean as possible lol. It will look good tho, I’ll post a pic once I’m done with it. I need to switch these to flower ASAP as they’re already 3ft or more lol and its gonna be a tight fit. Good thing these lights are pretty low profile and gives me some extra inches lol. Thanks for all your help bro!
Was curious to see what you came up with. Nicely executed.
Thanks! They came out better than I thought and the plants are definitely growing better than they were
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Nope, handles it nicely. Good thing the extrusions are light
hey man, they are looking good. Nice and bushy. How are you liking the lights?
So far so good. I have em like 5” or so from the top and don’t have a problem with burning. One thing I’ve been trying to figure out tho is, with me having the “A” type driver with the 2 built in adjustments for volt and current, is how they’re set with me taking em out of the box? Don’t know if the voltage is all the way up, half way or what and same with the other adjustment? I thought with it being constant voltage that it would be all the way up making it 48v but if I can adj up, then I don’t know what it would be at and then that would also change the current going to the strip. Just more research I need to do lol.
Ya your gonna want to buy a cheap kil-a-watt meter and also a cheap lux meter. Should be able to get both for less than $50 . Until then, just turn the voltage pot all the way to max, then a slight turn back.
Thanks, I know what a Lux meter is, but what would the kil-a-watt meter tell me? I mean I know it’ll tell me the kilowatts lol but u know what i mean
It will tell you how much power the fixtures are pulling from the wall. you can adjust the voltage pot to set it exactly where you want.
Ok makes sense. Thanks bro
I'm NO expert, but I was told by some that I trust that for LED grows, temps between 80-85 are ideal.
Thanks! Thatks quite hot if u ask me, I’ve heard temps that high with added Co2 but only then. I’m around that during germination but thats about it. During Veg, I’m usually at 79 or so and lower bout 5 degrees at dark period, Flowering I’m about 76-77 but wanna be around 71-72 and 67-68 at dark period but having a hard time getting it there.
I thought that was too hot for flower and needed to be closer to 74ish with lights and 68ish with lights off cause the hotter temps can easily cause mold and other issues? My temps are close to 80 with lights on and 74-75 with em off amd that’s why I was trying to find a way to lower temps. Or is it different growing with LED’s without UV & IR?
Yes , warmer temps work better under LED , lack of IR....80+ and you should be fine.
