appreciate that- good plan
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I don’t currently build for profit, I’ve got too much going on with real life stuff to dedicate the time and space to building full time.
Sometime at the beginning of the next year that may change, but examples of my work will be all over for everyone to see I do quality work 
Thanks for the shoutout bro.
Jelly
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It’s no problem brother. I just thought who better to direct spillz907 towards than yourself. 
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any literature on that you or anyone else might recommend? i’ve got a handful of months before i’ll need this setup so anything i can do in the mean time to help
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My build thread is full of handy things. 
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Oh boy, there is a crap ton of info on the web. Id start by Googling “series and parallel circuits”. Then Ohms law. That will keep you reading for a few weeks or so Much of the info you find will be too advanced at the beginning, but there are a lot of beginner sites out there.
LED lights are wired in some combination of series and/or parallel. It depends on the details of the number of strips, how they end up positioned, the total power, number of drivers, and to some degree personal preference.
The easy way is to just let us lay it out for you.
There are several SolStrip builds on OG too. Some of them go into lots of detail on the construction. Just type in “solstrip” in the search at the top of the page.
Here are a few to get you started. There are a lot more
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awesome thank you guys so much - i quit my job as it technician working for NOAA fisheries for about ~10 years and looking to go full time with gardening and maybe even lighting - huge open market for it in alaska right now … most people i know are using HPS with no hvac , etc. moved to montana with my wife and will be here for another ~6 months so i have plenty of time to read
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So an HLG-480-24A would power (10) Solstix x2 so they are 48w each? But if I were to use that same driver to power (12) that would be 40w to each board?
Are they like QB where they are more efficient when run soft?
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The added benefit of using more strips is you can usually get better coverage as well.
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And probably closer since they aren’t generating as much heat running less than their rated capacity
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Yeah, My strips run hotter than most like to run theirs.
I didn’t end up getting the 480w when I was doing my build, i got a HLG-320h-24A and it tops out around 400w (good batch) or so.
At 300w:
I can tell you now that i’m running them at 385w they are significantly warmer. The strips with the least airflow in my setup are uncomfortable to touch for very long, but won’t outright burn you. The LM561C is a durable little diode, even running close to max operating temp, I see these still lasting longer than any other light i’ve ever used.
The two outside strips on each end in my setup would be the first to burn out, even If in two or three years I had to replace them, i’m out a max of 80$ over 3 years. No biggie to me.
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@Baudelaire also designed these so that running them at 48w is pretty close to max efficiency anyway. You’ll gain a bit of penetration running them harder too.
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So another user said his 320w does 380w or so. Say you match the (10) x2 to a 480w driver and it does more say 540w is there some sort of override built into the chips so they don’t run at 54w?
It would be wise to get one of the dimmable drivers. You can drive them a little harder, and the loss in efficiency isn’t that bad. The lifespan goes down a tad too, but we’re talking a seven year lifespan.
As ReikoX said, you will need to get a dimable/adjustable driver. That just means you get one that allows you to change the power output to the lights.
Im not a big fan of grossly over driving LED’s or running the drivers too far beyond spec. They have an upper limit to the power rating for a reason
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The light @anon58740919 built for me was meant to be 500w but I can push them to 520+w without problems. When it arrived and I wired her up It was running at 516w so I dialed her back to 500w and she’s sitting nicely now at around 78 degrees (I have located the driver outside the grow area though).
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It was pushing 24v exactly on my multimeter when I sent it out mate. Guessing the Vo. Adjust must have slipped a touch in transit. Glad she’s doing well. To be fair Im running similar and it’s making 3500k rigs look weak 
@anon32470837 I’ve used non dimmable drivers too brother
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Oh, for sure. Its not a requirement to have a dimable driver, but it is a nice up-grade that you probably wont regret.
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oh wow i would have assumed opposite.
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