Co2 you say? Burner or bottles? I am one click away from buying a 4 burner and a controller. What are your plans?
Shiggityflip - Follow The Yellow Brix Road With The Perfect Sun 1000
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Well I have always been a generator guy. Filling CO2 tanks is not my idea of fun. But I also hate the heat generated by a propane Co2 gen. So I saw the water cooled Co2 generator models. If you use RO filtered water you will not have issues with them. Seems like people that have problems are running tap water and it clogs the intake filter. So water goes through and that turns on the burner. 85% of the heat is supposedly exhausted with the water. I will use a 55 gallon reservoir outside the grow room and a pump to circulate the water back to the reservoir.
And then it clicked! These were exactly like the electric model showers they use in Thailand when I visited there just run on propane. So I looked and sure enough homie de PoT has an RV shower system that runs the same exact way. But three times less the price of a water cooled Co2 gen. So I am going to get one of those!
I will hook up the water pump to the Co2 monitor. When Co2 is low the water pump will start. This will turn on the shower system and feed the water through and back to the large reservoir. Since the genny will only be on for a few minutes here and there it should work just fine with the reservoir.
That is seriously awesome. Thanks for your input Shiggs. Btw that panel is awesome. Good work.
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Thanks so much Nismo, I'm glad you like it. I am aiming to build 5 more of them.
Well I hung the Beast today in the garden and pulled out two eshines. The amount of light this thing generates is blowing me away. This fills the 4x4 area nicely and some excess light spills in to the surrounding area. I have hung her a little high so that I don't shock the plants into thinking a supernova just happened!
The Beast! Supernova! I'm smiling big time, that thing is awesome, great build.
Buckshot317
Plant of the Month: Mar 2018
Your light looks great bro.
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Yeah too bad I can't price it out for people. I think I can still do a build list though right?
Buckshot317
Plant of the Month: Mar 2018
Idk, I'm afraid to say anything lol. I wouldn't mind getting a few of those panels, I would rebuild my light frame. Those are great, the voltage is easy to work with many drivers. I'm trying to trade my dad out of panels he preordered, he won't budge. He is 75, late start to growing lol. What do you think of sour boggle or sour strawberry, from info on net they seem to be short flowering plants. Want to try something a little quicker.
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Seems like BOG makes a lot of short flowering time plants. I still have the sour bub in flower because I won't take it out until it stops throwing those trichs so hard. But she could be done today at 49 days post flip. I really want that sour strawberry. And sour boggle sounds like a winner too.
While you're at it build 7 more. I'll give ya my address and hold on to the other 2 for ya......
Buckshot317
Plant of the Month: Mar 2018
Thanks shiggs, I just ordered the SSB. I have some smurfzilla, beyond dreams I am going to sprout too. They are all regular beans. Should be able to pick them out and discard after 10 to 14 days from sprout. First time growing regular beans inside
Nice workmanship on the light Shiggs...Yourself, and few other fellas here possess a great skill set that leaves me envious...and the output looks...WoW!!...glad you got your Mojo back and doing such impressive and rewarding things...
...cheerz...h00k...
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Nice workmanship on the light Shiggs...Yourself, and few other fellas here possess a great skill set that leaves me envious...and the output looks...WoW!!...glad you got your Mojo back and doing such impressive and rewarding things...
Thank you my friend. I am a proud papa of my new baby.
Congratulations!!!...Rewarding as well...until they're teenagers...then sometimes not so much!...LOLOOL...I'm happy for you...cheerz...h00k...
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Congratulations!!!...Rewarding as well...until they're teenagers...then sometimes not so much!...LOLOOL...I'm happy for you...cheerz...h00k...
Oh Hook I'm so sorry I mislead you. I meant my baby the light fixture.
lolool...Doh!...cheerz...h00k...
Hey Shigs... pardon me while I pick thru your brain.... what are your thought processes behind your choice of diode boards rather than COB?
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Several things Tead.
First of all the theoretical max efficiency is higher with these Samsung diodes than with Cree cxb3590s. I am running these boards at 75w each and getting a real world efficiency of 1.85 lumens/watt. I could run them softer and hit about 2 lumens/watt. To get to 1.85 lumens/watt you would have to run a lot of Cree cobs.
Secondly the build is a pretty light one compared to cobs. And the spread of the boards allow me to spread the fixture out and get very even light. And since the diodes are spread out I need no additional heatsink besides the Aluminum PCB that the diodes come on.
Thirdly I have always wanted even light to fill in the shadows on the plant. Cobs are way better than a single bulb like an HPS, and I have had success with my ps1000 and using a mover. But ideally I am looking for light coming from every direction. The best way to get that done is a board. These wide boards also help keep the light below the fixture by reflecting it back down.
There are no lenses available yet for these boards but once they arrive it will allow me to focus the light even more. That's when this tech will really shine. But even now the amount of light I am getting makes my CMH lights look dim.
Here are pics of my sour bubble I took today. Sunset day 50!!!! This strain is basically done but it keeps packing on trichs. I make a day to day decision on whether to chop!
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Here is some Huckleberry kush pineberry pheno sunset day 50
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Here is some Dynastygenetics megafauna sunset day 50.
