And I really want to have some good light where I can see the exact amount of power going in so I got my self the 4 in 1 AC 80-260V LCD Digital 100A Volt Watt Power Meter Ammeter Voltmeter that @anon58740919 recomended to me
So, yeah! The only thing I am missing right now is some wireing and the L-shaped profile to join all the heatsinks toghether I might be able to buy all of it today or this weeek for sure plus some screws and thermal paste.
DO I need to screw the strips to the heatsinks or the thermal paste will do?
Looking good brother. You need to use nylon m3x4mm screws to fix to the sinks and use thermal paste too. Surely you can get the channel local? And the wiring too. I’d recommend ordering some wago connectors for the harness too
That’s going to be a wicked rig pal, you’ll need strong hangers eh. I have more solstrips & sinks in the post from @anon58740919 to build my own racks. Think mine will be a bit lighter though
Hello. Next update here So I finaly managed to drill all of the holes! It was diffucult task but its done. I wanted to put the Light together but I bought erong screws so I need to buy new today
But it shoud be done in couple of days. But I dont have to Rush because I dont have my new grow box yet. And I am not even sure when I will use that Light. Probably for my next grow in september? Who knows.
And btw. I didnt even showed you my current grow. Its the Francos Lemon Cheese from Green house seeds. I veged them 42 (normaly 35) days because I fucked the transposition to the flower box(I shocked them with too much Light)
They Just finished day 7 flower. Everything ok. PH 5,8. Ec 1800. Humidity 60-80, temperature 25-27.
That’s a very impressive build you have there bro. Looking forward to seeing some pics of it in use. I made my twins just slightly smaller i get around 400W in total so i’m happy and plants are growing Albannachs LED conversion - #111 by Albannach
wow those lights look great Thsi is my first design so its not so perfect but I am already thinking a lot of new ideas in building light panels very easily. Do it simple so you just have all different components that you just plug together like lego Oh man. its the future
Ok…you tell me what the fuck is going on, because I did every single thing right! I didnt even tight up the screws before I switched on the Light. And then this happend. Wtf? Where is the problem? I treated the strips with maximum effort not to damage them and they still dont work properly? I did not pay for this! How? @Baudelaire???
That’s a shame about those strips. I was thinking about your problem and i remember seeing this same issue before. The guy had attached his strips with steel screws instead of nylon ones and partially shorted them out. So i zoomed in close on your earlier build picture…Sorry mate i wish i could have given you some good news here but i recon that’s whats happened with yours too.
Those steel bolts and hard nuts are shorting out the LED circuits (traces) underneath them, plain and simple. If the nuts aren’t crushing them, the threaded bolts are cutting into them. It’s that simple. It’s the same issue you had with the first strips, and it has the same solution: replace your attaching hardware with nylon bolts, nuts and washers of M3 size only. With any luck, you won’t have permanently damaged most of the traces, and many of the strips will light evenly.
Or just use double-sided thermal tape and forget the screws. Either way, the steel needs to go. You are killing your strips, and causing a dangerous safety risk to yourself by shorting those strips to your lamp frame. Please add a ground to your frame if you haven’t already.
You’ve got a beautiful rig, I hate to see it not working properly. Please take my advice on the screws, once and for all. No one has had the extent of issues with dead circuits that you have had, and in the two other instances where it occurred, nylon screws fixed it instantly. -b420
I’m going to have to second what @Baudelaire is saying here. There’s not even a nylon washer underneath bro. I wish I could say that it’s faulty goods but it’s certainly not. I can see from the pics the issues stem from the build. All apart from the screws is top notch work bro just pay attention to the minute details cos they fuck shit up
I don’t have an axe to grind with @Baudelaire but going by my understanding. connecting the frame of a 24V DC appliance to mains earth is not something i would consider doing. Especially in places like the US where mains return and earth are common. You could make your rig live at full mains voltage if ANY other appliance shorts out. The distribution board breakers should trip but if something like a washing machine shorts to ground you could possibly have mains voltage at high amps across your lighting rig. COB rigs running at high voltage are another matter.
But there was problem with money and I couldnt do it sooner. But thats past now 
i get around 400W in total so i’m happy and plants are growing 
