re: LED GROW TEST. 126W hydro grow led VS. 180W
Hey OBX: Well not exactly! LOL! A little more thought than that!
The Light Housing below is made of 3 parts, the main part is a "Heatsink" I can buy by the foot, the Angles of the faces are 20 degrees to help focus or use the LED lights 120 degree lenses. They would be paired in Red/Blue in each Valley. They are on different wavelengths so I'm not sure if they will cancel one another or not. I will have to Machined it, but with a bridgeport that's a Non-issue. The PITA part is drilling all the DAMN Holes all 1050 of them. The Heatsink holds 14 set's of 50/50 red and blue 3.6 watt per 70 LED chains. There's 15 faces on the bottom the center face will have individual Infra-red LED's.
I have all these parts, Computer Fan, heatsink, Sockets, and Aluminum, and hope I can pick the lights up for around $3.99ea for a 70 LED chain. then I will have about $60 bucks into it.
The second part is a piece of Sheet Aluminum Folded/bent on a break. The 3 holes on each side is for standard light sockets, for 6 x 23W CFLs 3000k and 6500k to be used depending on Veg or Bloom.
The Large shade is Polished Aluminum to deflect the Light back into the Chamber, and collect heat, as there's a Coumpter Fan in the top that is Ducted/vented to the top of the STG. The ends of the Light will be Capped as to pull heat from under the shade.
I am running the STG Chamber at exceptable Temps now with 6 x 23W CFL's, these Cheap (after X-Max sale) lights will add hopefully 55 to 60 watts of light in the desired Spectrum without adding much heat!
The REALLY trick Part would be to mount it on a center Bearing, and use a Automotive wiper motor to rotate the light back and forth 150 degrees or so! Then the light could be more even in th chamber!
Dimensions are 8" x 24" for the Main part of the light, the Shade will be be determined by the STG space available!
Yeah just a little thought has gone into this!
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