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    DIY LED advice needed

    Hps might be cheaper to buy, but more expensive to run... I choosed to go with Led, works well so far!
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    Not the call I wanted to respond to

    Are you a city employee? We had a 36 inch water main that broke couple weeks ago! One hell of a job in freezing temp , just to empty that area of the pipe took like 9hours! I work for a city outside montreal, a fun job!
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    HID old school vs. LED

    Go with the diy option, cheaper and you customize it to your need.
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    overwintering Winter and bugs

    This morning its -25celsius (-13f) here in montreal. And were having a mild winter.  :P  With the windchill factor we are at -30c (-22f). I say the frost line at around 24 inch (2 weeks ago) last year we had the frost line below 60 inches. Usually the river is frozen in front of our house at...
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    HOW TO BUILD AN LED GROWLIGHT

      Finally made up my mind and ordered another vero29 (4000k to reach out in the blue spectrum a little more) with heatsink and 5v fan. Got a 36v 72w constant current driver from dealxtreme. Should help the plants grow a little more. Iam planning on running this cob on a different timer, so that...
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    HOW TO BUILD AN LED GROWLIGHT

    Iam in canada, heatsink usa seems to be overly expensive for shipping. Do you have other options? With the posted heatsink from DX, i could go with 2*2000 lumen vero 13 (500 mah * 31v) It would be enough to cool this from what i understand. Running 3 heatsink (vero13 paired up on the heatsink...
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    HOW TO BUILD AN LED GROWLIGHT

    Hi Nathan, before finding your post I build two cob vero29 at 2.1mah 3500k for roughly 20000 lumens. They are each on a pc cpu heatsink with fans. Now I build a greenhouse and I have too little lumens for my 20sqft from reading your post I should have another 15000lumens. Iam thinking of...
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    vendor Pepper North, a.k.a. peppernorth.com

    Ordered twice from him in the  last months and both time ive been a very satisfied customer!!  
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    Hello from Montréal Québec!!

    People from all over the globe!! Cool!
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    Leaves drying

    No we dont smoke. Soil was a seedling potting mix with stable PH. Did water with some fertilizer but did not water the coriander with that and leaves are drying aswell. Really thinking its the temp, i placed the plants closer to the light, should help make them a little warmer. If this doesnt...
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    Leaves drying

    The light is at about 14 inch of the plants and i usually water only the soil and not the leafs. Baseboard is close but not enough to burn the leafs(imo), my mint and basil plants are just as close and not affected. Took a soil temp reading and was around 59F, is that too cold? I placed the...
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    Leaves drying

    Hello! I recently transplanted some seedlings from under the dome to under my led lights. And all the plants shows these same symptons (some more then others). The leaves are drying and turning a light brown golden yellow... but its happening really slowly. Top layer inch is sand, read it...
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    Hello from Montréal Québec!!

    New member here from Montréal. This summer I bought à couple jalapeno and hungarian hot waxed Peppers from à local nursery. Got hooked on this pepper stuff! Fast foward to october I brought them inside build à Led setup with 2 80w cob, at Around 9000 lumens each. Got gnats and then bacterial...
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