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Nice and efficient. @Gaz29 the heat is absolutely minimum even on full mate. Moves a decent amount of air and the spread is pretty nice too.
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Thatās incredible man!! You definitely have a talent there!
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Fuck sake gonna have to have a week off overgrow. Let the swelling of my head go downā¦
Cheers bro
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Looking great 
thatās a good higher output than itās rated for = 224.2W max,i obviously wonāt run them at max ( though if I had to push them i probably wouldā¦
Plus I like that they dim too,
I will talk to you soon mateā¦ cheers.
Gaz
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You can crank this at full all day everyday bro. Even the overpower isnāt to any Ill effect. Thatās about 28w a chip for chips rated at 58.8w
Efficient af
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Yup dam good job cola! That wee rig i built the missis has 8 of those cobs running at 200w total and they barely get warm so gaz will love his i recon 
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Efficiency is whorr-its about mate so running this at 28w per , works out well for me and, if I changed Driver (in future)to run at between 35/50 watts per cob, that would mstill have a relatively long life and by the time I have used them for a while, Iām sure the new next best lighting will be out etcā¦
so if I ran them hard at 50w per , would thet significantly lessen lights life.?
The lights Looks good mate and just in time for summer time budā¦
Talk again tomorrow and you have a good night mateā¦
Happy growing ,
Gaz
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Testing till itās going cos Iāve not built my own light. Running it at minimum. You can clearly see the spread in a 2x4 area itās nice
As for the driver. Swapping it for 320w driver would give you 40w a chip and should still be sweet as a nut bro. The heatsinks with fans blowing are rated for like 95w a piece
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Thatās a great looking rig bro, nice to see it in use
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Yeah it is. Someone offered me Ā£400 for it last night instant cash. Pretty skint too. But a man of my word so Iām still sat on it
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After chasing the parcelforce delivery tit in my undies ( c*nt only buzzes once then couldnāt hear me shouting out the window so i ran down the two flights , my arse hanging out et al and he asked for FKN I.Dā¦!! Cheeky bast , i was about to argue when he said it was ok nowā¦ worra numpty.!
Anyway It was worth the chase as it was the light that Cola built for me, plus some good additional nutes and a Sonoff wifi connection for my phone etcā¦
Hereās a pic 
Cheers Cola i have to go out but Iāll fire 
it up later and Iāll show you a pic or twoā¦
Happy growing.
Gaz
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Colas on an epic train journey of small proportions himself now ha. Iāll catch you up when I get back home and see how youāre getting on. Iām just hoping she had a gentle journey to you mate ha. And I hate parcel farce beyond belief I dread to see my phone bill this month
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Thanks @Cola ā¦ i tried the rig just there and it ran excellent at only 105w , I have a 4 x 4 tent Iāve not put up yet but Iām thinking of putting this along with two 55w cobs and a 315w lec/cdm in the 4 x 4 ( i could run this rig at at very max =240w , so 350ish cob watts and the 315w lec/cdm should be enoughā¦ Maybe some additional 28w led bulbs for supplement lightingā¦
Anyway Iāll probably upgrade to a bigger driver to run lights at about 320/350wā¦
Hereās a couple of pics, Iāve not got it hanging up yet but will soonā¦
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Hope you get on well with that LED rig pal, I wont be using anything else from now on. I recon two of those cob rigs would light a 4 x 4 very nicely 
Be easier to set the height from canopy and probably save some cash on the leccy too
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Quite high for the driver but plants 
love the light also a 55w cob in there tooā¦
Pic of the cobs
at 240w ā¦
I have a couple more weeks left till my X18 crosses are done, so hoping the leds helps them finish better.
Happy growing/smoking ,
Gaz
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Looking good in there pal, that led rig is cracking eh. We.re doing an experiment, mainly cos her malawi auto has got so big. We are seeing how close it can be to the cobs before it shows any signs of heat issues. For the past 3 days itās been about 4" from touching the cobs but still shows no signs of any problems if fact itās loving all that light 
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Hi guys. I also bought the LCD display to show me Watts etc. But I am not really sure how to connect it to the solstrip light properly 
Can anybody take a picture so I can see? 
I got the 480W driver that uses two autake cables for the lights. Hope it wont be a problemā¦
Here is the topic: Fisch is building DIY 480watt Solstrip light!
Thanks!
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Positive wire from the AC side through the ring. Negative outside that ring. You will see the picture on the back and that will make sense
The ring itself then sits in the other 2 junctions.
@Gaz29 I would drop that a good few inches mate. They take a lot more than people think.
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I will drop it some more after I get plants used to the cobs only light plus these two 55w cobs, Iāve got roughly 350 odd cob- watts in my 3 by 3, i only put the rig in tent two days ago and I have a couple of 3 ft plants with 2 to 3 weeks til finishedā¦
Anyway how near/far can this rig be to my plants .?
Hereās My two cobsā¦ great wee lights.! From the cobshop U.S )ā¦ ( i had to pay extra Ā£73 tax/customs - the bastads kept the lights til i paid ā¦UK end .! )
You must be off on your holidays soon ehā¦ you and family have a great time away ok mateā¦
Btw i have used some of the ābloom boosterā from you. too early to say itās working yet ā¦
I will lower rig soon too mateā¦
Gaz
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Donāt talk to me about tax/customs duty on lighting brother lol. We should have already been on holiday now. But there was an issue with the flightsā¦as in my Mrs booked them for 2019. No refunds on flights so weāre going Tenerife next year. But weāre fucking off to corfu tomorrow for a week with the hotel refund cash. The boost stuff is good. Just not too much of it before stretch bro
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