lighting LED Shop Light 135 Watts (Ghetto Build)

[PtMD989]

Are you still using last years light that you built?


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[Walchit]

Moved it down to the bottom shelf, I should really put these other 2 rolls of strips on it.

 

[Walchit]

Built another one. I put the lights 10" on center. The first light was 9".

Removing 6 links and a little reshaping of a couple of the remaining links on the center chain make it to where they are all tight when you lift it.

Bought these little rings from home depot for 1.18 a piece. The lights are like 24 bucks after tax. A dollar a piece for the pvc and 6 bucks for gorrila epoxy.

So 82 bucks and maybe 10 mins to assemble.

Hopefully not just a waste of money, found out the leds are the 2835 chips. Maybe 24v?

 

[Walchit]

 

[Major Pain]

Just bought one of these myself, and hung it up using 550 cord.
 
 
 I found this looking for the specs:    https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/everlight-electronics-co-ltd/EAHC2835WD4/1080-1460-1-ND/6002478
 
Not sure if these are in the lights.

 

[Walchit]

Your supposed to get 3 and glue them together though! Lol.

Post your results. I'm about to start potting up in the next couple days. Then I will post a pic every couple weeks or something.

 

[Walchit]

Just bought one of these myself, and hung it up using 550 cord.
 
 
 I found this looking for the specs:    https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/everlight-electronics-co-ltd/EAHC2835WD4/1080-1460-1-ND/6002478
 
Not sure if these are in the lights.

Or these? Or somewhere in between. I wonder if there is a difference between 3528 and 2835, or if you just rotate it 90° lol

 

[Major Pain]

LOL!  Sorry.. Mil-spec stuff lying around. I do want to get one more though.. my store only had one.
 
I will let ya know how it works out.. I have a two month old Choc Primo, four month old Naglah, and a Lava Scorpion. I'll let you know how the light does with "older" plants.
 
 
For the LEDs... found this as well: https://www.ledtuning.nl/en/blog/whats-difference-between-3528-and-2835-led-strip
 
I think they are 24V per strip.

 

[Walchit]

Maybe I will try to diy one for my last light. These are just so easy to buy and have them hanging the same day.

 

[Major Pain]

Love how we Kansans are saying " F*** the grow lights... we're using shop lights from Wal-mart.

 

[Walchit]

F@ckin' Kansans!

 

[Walchit]

Oh and you should grab some of those ratchet light hangers, they are really nice to have. And like 3 bucks a pair on Amazon.

 

[Major Pain]

I could use those.  Been thinking of expanding my grow area with shelves.

 

[Walchit]

Here you go ptmd. Adding a few more diodes today. Also soldering these little ass wires makes me like the shop lights more and more.

Maybe these added lights will bump up the performance to match the t8.

 

[PtMD989]

Well, you didn’t have to add more strips on my account [emoji16]. JK


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[PtMD989]

With all those lights deployed, I hope you don’t attract every moth, bug or cop in town. [emoji16]


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[Walchit]

Got them super glued down. I didn't test them, hope they work lol.

 

[Major Pain]

With all those lights deployed, I hope you don’t attract every moth, bug or cop in town. [emoji16]


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Hey, I think I can see Walchits' house from here.

 

[Walchit]

So I got all the new strips in and now the blue and green got crossed somehow(drill?)

Then I forgot to hook up one wire of the cool white, when I hooked it up the psu went into protection mode. So I dimmed the warm white about half way and it works fine. I must have reached the limit of this Xbox 360 psu, I have a bigger one I guess I could put on there.

 

[sinensis]

looks dope
 
how bright do you think it is compared to your T5s?