I love building things, particularly electronics. That lead me to building a grow light of my own. I used to be an HID kinda guy; think of High Pressure Sodium, LEC, and the like. LED lighting has never been for me as far as the red, purple, blues (think of Mars Hydro, Black Dog, KindLED, etc) but now, I really think they are. Here is the parts list:
It was built using two 5-foot sections of 3/4" angle aluminum to cover a 6ft table. the rest of the stuff is from cobkits.com
All together it costed about 280 before separate tools (hand held hacksaw for the rails and a rivet gun to tack it all together)
It was built using two 5-foot sections of 3/4" angle aluminum to cover a 6ft table. the rest of the stuff is from cobkits.com
- 6x Citizen CLU048-1212 90CRI Gen 6 chips in 4000K spectrum
- Meanwell HLG-185H-36A
- 6x BJB COB chip holders
- 6x Arctic Thermal Pads
- 10x WAGO 3 wire connectors
- 6x 133mm Passive Pin-Fin Heatsinks
All together it costed about 280 before separate tools (hand held hacksaw for the rails and a rivet gun to tack it all together)
