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great thread, im currently interested in trying something like this transitioning from soil, i have 10 x 3gallon airpots i want to get some use out of instead of letting them sit unused, are they ok to use in a DTW system? have you guys got any pics of your actual setups? do you need to have it...

I'm loving it and for my first time attempting something like this I'm pretty happy. I plan on doing more as I want to have enough light to fill the entire 10x10 space eventually and get rid of my hps completely.

Yeah thats definitely something I'm thinking of doing as like you said it's acting like a heatsink and getting really hot, that combined with a small space it's putting out some heat that's for sure.

Man all those people I show my grow room to are gonna be so annoyed! Lol. But yeah im not too fused right now about it I havn't got time to go get more supplies and running lux app over it it doesn't seem to make a difference if it's like this or flat, I'm getting nice even lux across the whole...

Lol yes it has a slight bend cause of the thin aluminium. Not a big deal just yet but it will be fixed at some point.

Yeah same. As a new grower I only even found out about this forum from Googling about diy and the bridgelux strips thread came up. That thread was amazing with so much great info being freely shared without much drama. It's things like that we should be focusing on but I guess with any large...

Got my 2nd light up, will fix the other one at some point lol. How do I go about working out watts per square metre/foot? I have a lux app on my phone that says I'm getting 30k lux across the conopy with lights at around 80cm from tops of the pots. Closet is 9ft x 2f. Anyone know how i can work...

I finished up my 2nd light, much happier with this one, pop rivets made it so much easier and it's much sturdier. Will fix the other one up when I can get some more ALU. How's yours going @confined?

I mean without all the bullshit drama it's fine, go put this at any other forum in a diy section and see what happens lol no clue why this place specifically brings out so much drama. Maybe has something to do with the advertising bullshit?

I'm growing 5 at the moment for the grow battle over at AFN, can't wait to try them got some double grape, auto blues and 2 white train I got as freebies

No probs mate I was in your shoes not long ago and have ordered from pretty much everyone lol so happy to give my thoughts

Yep got my mephisto seeds directly, decent amount of freebies I ordered 3 double grape, got 5 and 3 auto blues. Got here in about 22days. Package was super good stealth, that's all I'll say don't want to give it away.

Ah right didn't see it was in regards to something else. As far as the other stuff about advertising I would say that's something that's up to the mods to discuss, if you want to start classifying group buys as commercial quantities and expect them to pay advertising fees your going to lose out...

he is not selling them, its a group buy, co-op whatever you want to call it. not sure why people are making such a big deal out of this have you never seen group buys and such before? i mean he has been open with the info you could just go and order your own from the supplier he is using?

cool look forward to it, im thinking of just mounting mine remotely but i do like having it all in one unit.

yeah i did see that, looks way better lol how you mounting the driver though?

Yeah typical dumb cunt I am got home put this all together with fucking timber screws all while fishing thru my toolbox with the ol pop rivet gun right there. I'm gonna go get some rivets tomorrow and just do that lol.

Cheers guys I'll have a look at adding some more along the ends also, the angle I have is just along the sides I thought that would be enough to stiffen it but the whole thing just flexes lol. Also can I just use pop rivets on these thin bits of ALU?

I mean I am just a noob and don't really understand the hate/politics between everyone but in my view it seems pretty presumptuous to come in here asking for all this fancy data on some cheap diy boards, that are not being sold commercially but in small group buys for fellow growers. I had to go...

So i think im finished but bit concerned about the amount of flex. I have another 6 strips to use and build so any suggestions are welcome on how to improve this. Not sure if I just scrap this one aswell since it's flexing so much but at its current height it's 35inches from the top of the pot...