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Thank you Bonsai, yes it is very bright. It is so bright that my camera is over exposing all of the pictures.
The Blue Experience - Kharma Reborn
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Thank you Bonsai, yes it is very bright. It is so bright that my camera is over exposing all of the pictures.
Pjs420
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time for a bigger tent? Haha but seriously that light looks awesome, congrats man! Putting my sunglasses on, and hangin in the rays!
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Thank you PJ. Unfortunately I have no room for anything bigger than a 4x2. But this tent is great. I can grow 2 plants side by side and it is 7 feet tall to deal with those crazy Sativas. loltime for a bigger tent? Haha but seriously that light looks awesome, congrats man! Putting my sunglasses on, and hangin in the rays!
Pjs420
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thats awesome! Same size as my closet almost, so did you plaster the light to the ceiling to see how she handles the intensity or ??
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Oh no. Kharma is a pretty battle tested plant. I put the light right down at 20 inches above the canopy. So far she hasn't skipped a beat.
Holy cow that's bright! Penetration or no, I'd still do some leaf tucking in there 
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Holy cow that's bright! Penetration or no, I'd still do some leaf tucking in there
Every time you tell me to tuck the leaves, I think "Fuck, I hate tucking leaves." But then I end up doing it anyway LOL
Derbybud
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Nice job on the DIY light Retrix. Should keep the garden happy.
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Thank you Derby.
Wow those new cobs are amazing. Although I didn't understand a single thing, I do recognize the process from other DIY's as soon as I saw your pics. Kharma Reborn is a miracle, let's hope she puts out as much bud as she can in the short time.
I am still loving your poetry, or spoken word, organization and cool colours make this journal a pure joy to read. Or maybe it's because you're a fantastic guy overall, I am always wishing you the best.
I am still loving your poetry, or spoken word, organization and cool colours make this journal a pure joy to read. Or maybe it's because you're a fantastic guy overall, I am always wishing you the best.
CraZysWeeD
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Very nice grow and congratulations to a very nice light build! Handsome touch with the Moonshoot!
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Wow those new cobs are amazing. Although I didn't understand a single thing, I do recognize the process from other DIY's as soon as I saw your pics. Kharma Reborn is a miracle, let's hope she puts out as much bud as she can in the short time.
I am still loving your poetry, or spoken word, organization and cool colours make this journal a pure joy to read. Or maybe it's because you're a fantastic guy overall, I am always wishing you the best.
My Lady you have a way of just lighting up the world. Thank you for being so sweet and so kind. I'm hugging you back!
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Thank you Crazy!
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As Kharma wraps up her first full day for getting a tan, I figured I would snap a few pictures.
She has already started praying to the light.
Tonight I will remove the moonshot just after lights out. I am going to remove all of the Wago Connectors and do a proper soldering job complete with shrink wrap on all the connections. Then I will feel safe. I will be sure to take plenty of pictures of the process.
Tonight I will remove the moonshot just after lights out. I am going to remove all of the Wago Connectors and do a proper soldering job complete with shrink wrap on all the connections. Then I will feel safe. I will be sure to take plenty of pictures of the process.
Photos will help a lot of people wanting to build their own light.
As long as you don't feature the names of non-sponsor lights in the pics, they'll pass muster with the powers that be.
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There is no problem with that at this point. Unless they want to count Digi-key, Home Depot, and Amazon as the brand. LMAO
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Those damn Wago connectors I thought. Always on my mind.
I left the damn tent open all day because I was scared something was going to pop off, or fuck up in some way.
And leaving the house?
going out of town?
never.
not like this i'm not.
week 4.2 flower
building the moonshot
Ok now where was I, The bottom line is I don't trust anything that isn't soldered so here we go:
A lot of people tell me that they are confused about how to wire up these lights. It does seem confusing at first but if you follow this simple rule of electrical work, it won't seem so daunting. Do one thing at a time. In fact that rule is applied when wiring a house and if you don't follow it during testing, you will fail. So that is what we are going to do here. Focus on one thing at a time. Look at this picture:
Look at these 2 pictures:
The first one is for my older Driver. Red is positive and Black is negative.
The second one is from the driver that I just ordered. On this one Brown is ACL which stands for alternating current live. The LIVE in this case means positive, or hot. And Blue is ACN which stands for alternating current neutral. See what I mean? Confusing as fuck. It's not just you @Lady G2HM
The other wires are for attaching a dimmer. I don't use dimmers. I run shit wide open all the time. So in this case I will not be discussing them.
Here is the wiring for my first driver. I am going to connect the Red which is positive to the positive wire of my first COB.
And now I'm going to connect the Black wire which is neutral, or negative to the negative side of my second COB
Now all you have to do is connect the Negative side of the first COB to the Positive side of the second COB and you have completed the circuit.
Here is the connection after I soldered it to the driver:
Now let's do the other side. Same thing, but different colors, just remember the key on the driver:
Easy as pie in the sky baby.
Now lets look at this clusterfuck:
Wago connectors everywhere and wires and wires all stuffed into that box just waiting for a short and fire to happen. Lets fix it.
Remember the rule. One thing at a time.
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First, these wires are way too long and need to be shortened.
That looks better.
Now to sort everything out:
In this case, for the power, or input side, we are going to wire everything up one color at a time.
Yellow with a green stripe is our ground wire. We are going to gather up all of our ground wires and bind them together, Solder them, then shrink tube them and place a secure wire nut over all wires, including the ground wire to our plug. (the fan driver does not have a ground wire.)
Next, we are going to gather up all of the blue wires which in this case are Neutral or negative.
This time we will include the blue from our fan driver as well. Same procedure:
And also Brown which in this case is Hot or Positive:
And now all wires are Soldered and secured:
And now for the 4 Fans, our final Cluster of Fuckery:
Now with the fans, in this case I will be ignoring the blue and green wires because they mean something completely different than what we are talking about here today. On fans, these 2 wires are used for speed control which I will not be using.
Instead we will use the Yellow wire which is hot, or positive, or live, And Black which is Negative or neutral.
I forgot to take pictures of the process, however, They were soldered, all 4 yellow fan wires to the fan drivers red wire, and all 4 black fan wires to the Fan Drivers Black wire.
Now look at our box:
Everything fits, It is neat, secured, and most importantly, I know that if I left my house for a week, it won't burn down due to a Wago Connector popping open.
That looks better.
Now to sort everything out:
In this case, for the power, or input side, we are going to wire everything up one color at a time.
Yellow with a green stripe is our ground wire. We are going to gather up all of our ground wires and bind them together, Solder them, then shrink tube them and place a secure wire nut over all wires, including the ground wire to our plug. (the fan driver does not have a ground wire.)
Next, we are going to gather up all of the blue wires which in this case are Neutral or negative.
This time we will include the blue from our fan driver as well. Same procedure:
And also Brown which in this case is Hot or Positive:
And now all wires are Soldered and secured:
And now for the 4 Fans, our final Cluster of Fuckery:
Now with the fans, in this case I will be ignoring the blue and green wires because they mean something completely different than what we are talking about here today. On fans, these 2 wires are used for speed control which I will not be using.
Instead we will use the Yellow wire which is hot, or positive, or live, And Black which is Negative or neutral.
I forgot to take pictures of the process, however, They were soldered, all 4 yellow fan wires to the fan drivers red wire, and all 4 black fan wires to the Fan Drivers Black wire.
Now look at our box:
Everything fits, It is neat, secured, and most importantly, I know that if I left my house for a week, it won't burn down due to a Wago Connector popping open.
Lol! Great pics and explanation, and excellent use of shrink tubing. I fell in love with that stuff when I was too poor to afford all the cables for my in-house music studio and I made them myself.
After all that, it still doesn't look easy. Would it be easier if you weren't mixing and matching parts from old and new equipment?
After all that, it still doesn't look easy. Would it be easier if you weren't mixing and matching parts from old and new equipment?