100watt L.E.D. Stealth Grow Box. Criticism wanted please

[BanditJoe]

Hello, I am lookin for some criticism on my current stealth box. I have built about 20-25 stealth boxes for friends and family and so on.... this new one is deff one of my favorites. I have bein growing for about 7 years now in mini systems and I realy love making them. This one is going to be set up for s.c.r.o.g system. Hydro most likely. Right now I am doin one hydro and one soil to see what works better for this particular system. Hydro has never failed so far but its always fun to experiment.
(The picture that is my avitar is finished bud is from the first grow with the led when i had it in an old wine cooler stealth box. Ended up with 3.5 oz from one plant. Strain unknown)

Light: 100watt led, cree led's (red, deep red, and royal blue). 100watt power supply

Fans: 2- four inch inline fans. One outake one intake

(No carbon filter yet but its in the mail)

Hydro: clay pebbles in 5 inch net pot. Top fed water drip system. 4 inch air stone disc. 3 gallon bucket.

Nutes:
Veg- foxfarm grow big, mico max, calcium magic
Bloom- dyna bloom, liquid koolbloom, powder koolbloom, surethrive, calcium magic, mico max

Box: polyethylene storage box. Hight- 35 inches, length- 26 inch, depth- 20 inches

 

[ThurgoodJenkinsSoulbro.]

where did you get the 100w LED from? looks legit

 

[JMD]

where did you get the 100w LED from? looks legit

As far as I can see, it's home made. Looks like a bunch of LEDs on star boards wired in series.

 

[BanditJoe]

Yes, I actually made it myself. 3watt cree led chips run in series on an aluminum sheet. This is day 2 and already see a hude diff in my seedlings

 

[Indoor Sun King]

Yes, I actually made it myself. 3watt cree led chips run in series on an aluminum sheet. This is day 2 and already see a hude diff in my seedlings

I'm interested...can you expand on your DIY LED....parts, prices, assembly details, and lots of pics please

 

[whocares100]

Nice job for grow and veg, but what about blooming?

 

[BanditJoe]

I didn't take picture of building the led. CREE LEDS are sold from a number of distributors. As long as you know the "spectrum" you want you can order accordingly. I got the power supply from the same company I bought the leds from. I will look and see if I have the receipt. It was fairly simple. If you can use a soldering gun its simple. There are numerous vids on YouTube about it too.

 

[BanditJoe]

Nice job for grow and veg, but what about blooming?

My led is actually set up for bloom. I have auto flowering headband in there right now. When I am not using auto strains I scrog style and use a sunsystem 4,000 lumen 2 foot t5 for veg.

 

[BanditJoe]

Yes, I actually made it myself. 3watt cree led chips run in series on an aluminum sheet. This is day 2 and already see a hude diff in my seedlings

I'm interested...can you expand on your DIY LED....parts, prices, assembly details, and lots of pics please

In total the led cost me around 120$ after all was put together. My friend is using a "¿black star?-" (I think) 200 watt led and he even admits mine works better. I think he paid over 300$ for his. I have all the notes from what wave lengths and how many of each I used. I will try too find it and post it up. CREE is deff the way to go.

 

[BanditJoe]

I will also try to post some pics of my previous grow with ths led.

 

[BanditJoe]

Here is some of the og x lemon haze from last grow

 

[BanditJoe]

Here are some more og x lemon haze pics

 

[BanditJoe]

Thanks everyone so far for the likes and comments!

 

[TheBeardedStoner]

Thanks everyone so far for the likes and comments!

Could you go into what all you did to make the cab?
You got it from lowes no?
Overall clean, and loving the box.
Sub'd for the ride.
+rep
Cheers.

 

[wwwillie]

The box looks swell, sure to produce some sweet product. I am very interested in the DIY LED aspect too. As has been mentioned as well as supplier and some build pointers.

 

[PetFlora]

Stagger the rows of diodes so that the diodes/engines in every other row are in between the adjacent row

You don't need Red or Blue anymore. NW + WW will get er dun jus fine

 

[BanditJoe]

Could you go into what all you did to make the cab?
You got it from lowes no?
Overall clean, and loving the box.
Sub'd for the ride.
+rep
Cheers.

Yea the box itself was from homedepot. Polyethylene (about 60$) I think is the type of plastic. I used a dremel to cut out the shelf in the middle. After that I used black silicon to seal all the edges. Once it dried I cut my vent holes and mounted the fittings for the fans and sealed with silicon. I had to shorten a few of my wires for the fans. I wanted the box to look as clean as possible. Mounted the powerstrip and ran my wires. I used cardboard covered in Mylar for the backing and sides. Covered most of my exposed wires too. I used metal tape to seal the edges of the cardboard once in place.also used metal tape to cover the insides of the doors cause I ran out of Mylar. I used sunsystem hangers for the light. That's basically it for the box itself. Not too difficult and fairly inexpensive. Oh yea I use 3/16" tight fit foam tape to seal around the doors. Works very well. I will post pics of it later today.

 

[BanditJoe]

Stagger the rows of diodes so that the diodes/engines in every other row are in between the adjacent row

You don't need Red or Blue anymore. NW + WW will get er dun jus fine

Yea I should have staggered them for sure. I don't know why I didn't think about that. I plan too upgrade eventually and build a 200-400watt and I will stagger for sure. Could you elaborate on what NW+ WW IS? I haven't heard of them yet.

 

[PetFlora]

White engines go by NW =Neutral White, CW= Cool white and WW= Warm white

I believe Cree www has graphs

 

[BanditJoe]

Here are some updated picks of the Sour Kush at 6 weeks (4 weeks into flower)