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I haven’t updated my log in a bit, but just to give everyone an idea of China board abilities. I did 2.1 pounds at 500w with 3 plants for my first run with these boards in a 4x4. I have no complaints, no issues, no drama. If anyone is tittering on whether or not to go with King Brite, just do it.

As rocket said, I did 6 boards for my 4x4. I also agree with rocket in saying you won’t need more than 480w. I had issues with one plant when I got into the 550w range. Kept it at 500w after that.

Also a 240w can veg an entire 4x4 tent absolutely no problem. I literally just did it a bit ago. Turned out great. Even had it dimmed down to 75%.

Any China alibaba 4000k 240w QB style unit w/ Samsung diodes. Whether 301’s or 561’s. I fucking love mine.

I don’t think anyone could really blame a company that’s shipping internationally in these time’s that we’re living in. Before the corona virus stuff happened, I had multiple orders from king brite and every single one of them arrived ahead of schedule. Hell my digikey order 2 weeks ago was...

Both models will definitely do the trick. I think the second link you provided is their 2020 model. There’s tons of strip fixtures on Alibaba and it’s hard to weed through them without hearing about real life experiences from users. Never trust what an Alibaba company tells you in terms of PPF...

I’ve only begun to dabble into the lighting building with my last couple of fixtures but how do you plan to wire them?

Funny enough I kinda fucked up on it but it still worked lol. I went with an XLG-100-L-ab, the strips are 2 foot vesta strips. I don’t plan to run my jam in there but if I did I woulda went with a 150 I think.

Hey OP, I just built my first strip light for my seedling cabinet. All the parts were ordered off digikey and it turned out great. Way easier than I thought it was going to be, plus there’s tons of guys on here to help ya with wiring.

That’s a huge 10-4 there good buddy. Customization is King.

Lol it becomes quite the burden. I went with all singles for my light fixture. Helped me distribute them where I wanted.

To be honest I was in the same boat when I was purchasing my ticket to LED land. There’s an insane amount of different companies and diode layouts with added features like switches and stuff. In the end, I figured having control of it is what ultimately enables you to dial in a grow. Since the...

Thanks dude!, and thanks for helping me trying to figure out a driver. When I was ordering everything I was pretty baked and failed to take note about needing to double the forward voltage requirements due to the vesta’s having two channels. Went with a parallel/series setup. Still worked out...

Thanks man! I had a lot of fun doing it, minus dropping my solder gun and breaking it, as well as burning my finger trying to catch it like a dumb ass lol. The vesta’s were going for $15 CDN each and the dimmer is just a plain old $1.90 0.5w linear 100k pot. I installed it on the front of the...

Figured I would post up my recent strip build in case anyone is looking to build something strip wise for a very small space. This will be going in my seedling cabinet. I went with Bridgelux Vesta strips hooked up to a xlg-100-L-ab dimmed with a 100k pot. Turned out pretty solid, I have a...

I wired mine in series. 4 qb11 730nm on a hlg-80h-c700b. Worked great.

Spectrum wise it all depends on what you’re after. I went with King Brite for my veg and flower setup and I couldn’t be more pleased. I went with 4000k for my veg set up and 3000k w/ Cree 660 for my flower setup. I run my FR spectrum in the form of four QB11 strips on a separate dimmable driver...

I went with the 301h’s w/ 660 crew’s. I think with everything shipped to my door was about $900 cdn? Consisted of three separate kits as well as some qb11 strips and an 80w Meanwell driver.

I have 4 in my 4x4. KB says one will cover a 2x2 and judging on the looks of the tent I’d say so. For the end of day purpose that I’m using them for it’s over kill but next run I’m gunna mess with some Emerson effect. I have them in series on a HLG-80h-C700b with a potentiometer so I can dim them.

in case anyone wonders about King Brites QB11 clones, they’re pretty solid. 4 x 730nm Cree xp-e2