Diy is the way to go. Your light is bad ass. Glad to see others ideas and builds. This is my firat time indoors as well with diying my grow. I diyd my veg area and flower box. Yeah i went with a mix of both. The 10watt cobs and them strips. Got 2 x 16.4ft reels for 15$and the driver i looked and looked and looked found that for 7.50$ i shyt u not. Man i bargain shopped for real!
Awesome light build. What kind of temps are you getting on the heatsink plate with the strips? I cant see one side of the fan being 100% covered by the plate being as affective as it potentially could be? Is there holes drilled or something I cant see under the fans?
Thanks man! The panels stay quite cool driven up to about 80% on the dial. At max it does produce out heat. But not to the point of where i cant hold my hand on it. I use the fans for both lights. No drill holes in the panel. But i should put the rubber stoppers on the bottom of the fans to elevate em to help draw the air better. I just have it where the 43cfm fan pulls the hot air from the panel. As i adjust the dial on the driver the fans adjust with the light. So at max power the fans rpms are greater than when say the dials at half. If that makes any sense. Lol im stoned tryna type.
Hmm i never really checked that.. Maybe tomorrow ill put it up and run it for a cpl hours and check every so hour see id ot does. Im not vegging anything atm so its put up. Im all about making improvements and such. I should try elevating em. I have 4 of the fans on the diy flower light right now. Il elevate them tomorow as each fan covers over the four bars