LED lighting requirements for microgreens and aromatic herbs

PicklesRus said:
Good catch, thank you for the heads up. What happened when you ran more than 6a through .
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Never got to that point, likely nothing would happen but sensless to burn down a house for a design oversight. The things could likely handle a couple of times the rating but I decided to do a wiring clean up, ditched most of the cob holders and epoxied them directly to the heatsinks and soldered almost everything.
 
PicklesRus said:
Good catch, thank you for the heads up. What happened when you ran more than 6a through them?


Arrow electronics has them, but I think when I double checked the part numbers the new high efficiency ones are only available in really big quantities.

I think the eb strips are a good value . However. I did some more price digging, and found out vero 13 gen 7 is even cheaper upfront cost for the same amount of lumen output and If i remember right higher lm/w effiency - even when including passive star or pin heatsinks. I think if I was going to buy again I'd get the those vero 13 gen 7 simply for cost savings and to try something else.
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Nothing is a good value till we see the Greens it produces :P
 
PicklesRus said:
If you're still looking check out bridgelux EB Series strips
Or Samsung H Series strips. I made this fixture in a few hours View attachment 3868840

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Those are expensive I suppose? I ended getting some chinese LED strips with 5630 chips. Enough for lettuce.
Somehow I managed to give those LED strips other uses. Not so bad when it's on ebay for 5$ a 5 meter roll...

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It works at a distance of 5 inches. Less than that it will hardly burn any leaves but you lose light spread. More than that and you lose light intensity.
 
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