Dee Dee Dee... am I missing something here?

DANKSWAG

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Say someone tell me I am not being a moron about this...

I just received new mind you out of the box LED panels... those nice ones everyone's talking about in the LED section, they've got those big brass eye hole post that wire leaders are usually combined in twos' to a caribbinears attached to a rope ratchet to suspend the the LED panel with... well this is what I got for hanging gear....

I may as well try to attach this gear to the core round ball I have them sitting on

A pair of large silver caribbinears with a pair of rope ratchets with their smaller caribinears (locking clips).

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DankSwag
 
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AquariusPanta

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Say someone tell me I am not being a moron about this...

I just received new mind you out of the box LED panels... those nice ones everyone's talking about in the LED section, they've got those big brass eye hole post that wire leaders are usually combined in twos' to a caribbinears attached to a rope ratchet to suspend the the LED panel with... well this is what I got for hanging gear....

I may as well try to attach this gear to the core round ball I have them sitting on

A pair of large silver caribbinears with a pair of rope ratchets with their smaller caribinears (locking clips).

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DankSwag
Uhh... BlackStar? Please, your english is 'killing' my patience of looping the hoops with you...
 

DANKSWAG

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I was hoping to find 4 wire leaders like this with clips and metal branded looped ends to attach to the brass post with eye holes... Can't get any more plain English then that there buckaroo!20141203_152352.jpg


Does anyone know where I can find these in a slightly larger size the post on the back of these lights is about twice that of the cheaper ones I've been working with?

DankSwag
 

Greengenes707

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Look at the light portrait ways...
Attach a ratchet from the left top to the right top...and the left bottom to the right bottom...pull kinda tight to maximize head room.
Big big carabiners in the middle...ratchet rope goes through it...
Hang from 2 points

EDIT
Or you can ditch the carabiners and go straight to hooks/mounts on your ceiling
Similar to what DJ did, see post 158...
https://www.rollitup.org/t/djs-led-medical-grow.656712/page-8
 
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PSUAGRO.

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Look at the light portrait ways...
Attach a ratchet from the left top to the right top...and the left bottom to the right bottom...pull kinda tight to maximize head room.
Big big carabiners in the middle...ratchet rope goes through it...
Hang from 2 points

EDIT
Or you can ditch the carabiners and go straight to hooks/mounts on your ceiling
Similar to what DJ did, see post 158...
https://www.rollitup.org/t/djs-led-medical-grow.656712/page-8
We've had a couple of threads about this now. EH needs to add hanging diagram/instructions with his panels dammit!:mrgreen:
 

DANKSWAG

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Look at the light portrait ways...
Attach a ratchet from the left top to the right top...and the left bottom to the right bottom...pull kinda tight to maximize head room.
Big big carabiners in the middle...ratchet rope goes through it...
Hang from 2 points

EDIT
Or you can ditch the carabiners and go straight to hooks/mounts on your ceiling
Similar to what DJ did, see post 158...
https://www.rollitup.org/t/djs-led-medical-grow.656712/page-8
Greengenes,

I can almost picture that almost...I probably will need a visual aid.

I will check out what DJ did... still looking to where I can obtain the lead wires in second pic, they clip perfectly onto the brass eye hole post...

DankSwag
 

DANKSWAG

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This is how I have mine hung but there is more than one way to skin a cat.
I got just in mind now what I want to do.... Whereas you have a pole for ratchet rope to loop over I will have a 1x2 board from which I will thread into it a closed eye hook that I can run the large carabiners through, one on each end. Then I'll run the ratchet rope through them instead of over the board, connecting each smaller carabiner to the eye hole post on the led panel.

I will post updates tomorrow as I have other things on the agenda tonight... meow...here pussy pussy pussy... meow...

DankSwag
 

AquariusPanta

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Ya'll would be laughing at what suspends my *Crowns* and BlackStar above the canopy... (zip-ties, both small, medium and large ones!)

The fixtures have about one and half inches of clearance between them and the tent's inside ceiling, allowing me to grow without cooking too many heads...

:fire:
 

DANKSWAG

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Here is one option. Took two minutes.
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It actually takes more then two minutes, first you got to drag your ass out of the house to the hardware store, wait in lines drive in stupid traffic before proceeding.... now once back onsite you have to find electricians pliers for it can cut the cable and crimp the aluminum clamps.

After purchasing the items I noticed looking at my recent and I'll be dammed if I didn't get over charged with two items on my recent for 4 bucks I didn't even buy... wow... someone is going to have to look at the tape.

So then thinking more on this I notice damn, I have two lights to do this work for and it is a pain in the ass to cut cable and clamp on swivel hooks and expensive too.... so I decided hell with it, that cost close to $30 in materials not to mention time and gas spent. I am returning my packed up the swivels the smaller ones from lowes and also addressed being charged 4 bucks for crap I didn't buy and with the return of the 4 swivels I got their that should be about 12 back in my pocket, Then another I will return the larger ones from Ace Hardware for another 8 bucks, so I should get $20 back in my pocket. Less time gas and a few bucks for /16 galvanized cable and cable ferrule (clamps) I've learned the way Capt Morgan used the rope ratchets connecting them to the the four post on the led panels with carribener in the middle to attach to ceiling is best route to go.

Except for in starting to create the leader cables I opted to to tie two post each together using the galvanized cable and securing each end of the cable to one post each using the clamps to bind the loop so they would remained secure and hold the weight of the light. For I will attach one of the rope ratchet carribener to these two post connection wires for each side and attach the remaining one to the eye post I have secured in the wood rafting above. From what I can till the cable wire is much more sturdy in holding an angled position of the panel verses using the ratchet rope which seems to give more and not hold steady if you want to position panels. I can get the same flexibility as I had with the Onyx Bloom suspension system.

Here is picture of the hardware for one set, except for the swivels both different sets shown..
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Here below is my take on using the wire leaders minus connection swivel, for they are secured onto post and help act as stabilizer on the carribener when tilting the panel and provide a nice easy disconnect from the screw eye above or simple to release off the wire to swap out another panel in the event of failure without having to disconnects for panel post.
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See the difference not to mention the less tension on ratchet rope easier to raise and lower panel.
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DankSwag....

Hope to see these post come connected in the future with my guide wire idea, beats freaking around with swivel clips and multiple post connections.
 

Swiller

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The last pic, that's what I did, I never f with the crimping cables. See that bottom pic? Works great doesn't it? How many minutes does it take to figure that out?

Oh and I love the A51 light.
 
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