Go through and do a mock checkout, it will probably show up at the tax/shipping stage, mind you im Canadian so i don’t get that but know a couple who have been charged that 25%.
And yeah as @BudSy said typically people who are running higher wattage’s are also hanging the lights higher, something to be said about light brightness decreasing the further away the light is though but at the same time running brighter but further away you do get a slightly larger happy zone light wise.
But that 30-35w/sqft range is imo more than enough and will get less as time goes on as our efficiency increases, also why im playing in that 20-25w/sqft range just to see, but ive hit a media volume limitation so ??? no conclusions as of yet.
Side note though i was playing today and used some of the strips i removed from my other lights to build this, definitely had the drill bit wander off a few center punch marks, or well just bad marking on my part… just testing it with what i had on hand power options wise getting a whopping 70-73% driver/power efficiency lol…
Been thinking of adding a space 14"x14" to the closet as a third chamber to be used for pollen and or finishing off seeded plants.
Not until i get back from a summer trip to the family cabin, but with what im thinking, gonna be a super basic probably one day build, literally a door with light seals and a standoff for floor intake and a pc fan hooked to controller of some sort extracting out the top through a basic bed filter
lol yes and made a revision or two, this though i was contemplating other options but they would all require partially dismantling and rebuilding the current setup or setups where the heat of one chamber would cascade into the one above it which makes it more difficult to maintain temps/RH between chambers, and id be loosing alot of closet space in the process.
They way im thinking about it though just leaves the bottom two chambers alone and i would have a separate third cabinet in a section that wasn’t really being utilized closet wise and a quick build out, but yeah who knows.
Spectrum is good, just depends how efficient they are, it would be cheaper to use sils though, on a multi branch fixture like these. Just pop the plastic diffuser off.
@Icculus those are max 1800 lumens from 20-21watts , Screw in LEDS like @Shadey posted are cheaper “4-8x” and more efficient “30+%”, especially once the domes are popped of but again its not that far off from building a decent diy strip setup.
Unless you can get a decent bulk price buying the screw ins, it’s actually cheaper to do the Bridgelux light per watt, but if you’re not looking for much light area coverage screw ins will be a cheaper package, but will be more costly on energy and produce more heat in the tent to get rid of.
I am as cheap and red neck as it gets the Bridgelux lights are probably the best value for money you can get with a little effort to make them atm
Yep, I just wired one up the other day just like that. I hate the colours of the wires every time I have ever used a Meanwell, or anything else like it.
I know, different places, different standards, it’s all good, and it’s not actually hard to wrap my head around it. But after enough years being careful and specific with mains electricity things become very disconcerting when they look wrong.
And it just looks so wrong, messes with my head everytime.
after emigrating from the UK. I have to double check every time I wire something up 