OneHitDone
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You must work in or have access to a machine shop?
Pictures of your DIY lights - Post your pics!!!
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JavaCo
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Used to work in a machine shop out of high school. But no not really did all that on a micro mill , mini lathe and drill presses i have set up in my basement. Did it all old school by hand. Wish i had access to a CNC mill , if i did i would have been done a month or two ago.
OneHitDone
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Very nice
Positivity
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Nice and clean setup!
OneHitDone
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I have a hunch this is what the new A51's will resemble.
Makes sense so you can position them so that each cob is covering its own 12-18" area
DonPetro
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Yea i tried to maximize the spacing of the cobs on the heatsink by centering between the edge of the case fan and the edge of the heatsink.
HiloReign
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Clean build my friend, well played~
Those candle bowl reflectors give your COB bar a high-bay fixture kind of look and it looks great.
caretak3r
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I'm really enjoying seeing the varied designs. So far I like having my panels @ roughly 45 degree angle on either end of my cab, freeing up available growth height. I'm starting to think that smaller tents would do well with corner mounted vero29/cxb3590s on CPU heatsinks, shining down at an angle, perhaps mounted directly to the tent poles via clamp. Anyone doing this?
dandyrandy
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I guess I'll have to get a pic of mine and post it. It's not impressive, but wow do it grow!
ReeferDance
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I think mc130p has something similar to this right now. If i remember correctly he has one CXA(B)3590 mounted on a corner in his flower tent, he usually powers it down for pics so you can actually see something haha.
EDIT: found a pic https://www.rollitup.org/attachments/todaysview-jpg.3414308/
bizfactory
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My first light, CXB3070 @ 1400 mA ~ 200w
Here is us plugging it in for the first time: http://gfycat.com/OccasionalBadCaiman
Here is my second light, went cheap on this one. Vero 29 @ 1500mA ~100w
Here is us plugging it in for the first time: http://gfycat.com/OccasionalBadCaiman
Here is my second light, went cheap on this one. Vero 29 @ 1500mA ~100w
bicit
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Mind sharing where you found those cases? Very nice build!
beepotron
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The LEDs are 3w Bridgelux, deep red/bright red, plus a few bright blue/royal blue in the mix. The COBs are all 100W chinese cheapies, 5 x warm white, 3 x cool white... I just wanted something low cost, I know the vero/cree snobs'll be hating, but my space is only 3' x 4' and 4.5' high. LED was the only way to go due to heat (it's a loft space), but I didn't think the pre-made lights in my budget looked much good and I didn't have the funds to shell out on designer COBs and drivers.
HiloReign
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The Vero series is made by Bridgelux and if you aren't using good quality diodes/COBs the latter of your power consumption will mean a lot (more than good quality lights) of heat generated.
I see no one hating yet, but I'm sure someone will come and tell you with lots of "hate" how important cost effectiveness and efficiency are
Nevertheless, I always appreciate when someone shares their work, so thanks again for that~
I see no one hating yet, but I'm sure someone will come and tell you with lots of "hate" how important cost effectiveness and efficiency are
Nevertheless, I always appreciate when someone shares their work, so thanks again for that~
DonPetro
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Thank you very much. The case is actually a surface mount adapter for a wall heater exactly like this one: http://www.munroelectric.com/silvereclipse/index.jsp?path=product&part=1711860&process=search&ID=,Electrical.Heaters,Electric.Heaters,Wall.Heaters
I found them at my local hardware store though so i would start there.