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It looks to me like it's 20leds in series x12 wired in parallel. This picture kind of shows the path a little bit better. It weaves between two rows top to bottom. Left diagram above. Not the right. I believe.
Turbo Bucket's Take On RADDWC: Grow Room Build-Up
Those are spaces, not traces. They take away the trace metal in the process.It looks to me like it's 20leds in series x12 wired in parallel. This picture kind of shows the path a little bit better. It weaves between two rows top to bottom. Left diagram above. Not the right. I believe.
They have to be spaces, for the LEDs are connected on each end. They leave a lot of the copper for a heat sink. Traces are huge wide zigzag patterns which are connecting a lot of LEDs in a strange way, which I do not like.
Your drawing actually emphasizes the spaces, very well. The curve around to the connector is a space between a pos (or neg) trace and the led trace.
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- #623
So the raised portions would carry current not the recessed portions?
Yes....The raised portions are the "wire" of the board.
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Well f### me running. That makes a lot more sense.
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So I found the short today. The panels overlap in the middle when I put it together or while installing it the top panel rubbed off the coating on the bottom panel creating a path from the panel to the frame through the mounting bolt. Surprise surprise. Moral of the story, don't do shoddy work eh? Plus side the boards not toast. And with the ratchet hangers I just turned the panel on it's side to work on it so that saved some time.
That is great......!!!!! That means you don't have a problem that can't be fixed!!! Awesome......
It is nice you know as much about the boards as anyone now. Probably more than you wanted to know.
(still hate the design of that board though)
Now all those new pictures will have nice bright even light......
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- #628
I was pretty comfortable up to the PCB but definitely appreciate the more in depth understanding of them now.
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- #629
Added some temporary panda film to keep light where it's supposed to be. It's hard to photograph in such tight quarters.
How I worked on the panel without pulling everything down.
Some roots from the Dewey cloner. These clones got potted into Solo cups today and will most likely be going to a new home next week.
How I worked on the panel without pulling everything down.
Some roots from the Dewey cloner. These clones got potted into Solo cups today and will most likely be going to a new home next week.
Got some nice roots on there.....Added some temporary panda film to keep light where it's supposed to be. It's hard to photograph in such tight quarters.
How I worked on the panel without pulling everything down.
Some roots from the Dewey cloner. These clones got potted into Solo cups today and will most likely be going to a new home next week.
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Transplanted the 2 Gigabud and Cherry Hill bagseed babies into 2gal fabric pots. Took this opportunity to switch them over to the new nutes. The autos will stay on Botanicare pureblend. I'll be running AN sensi on this side to see if I want to fully change over.
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Ran into a bit of an issue. I knew the hard water would bite me somewhere but I didn't expect it to be my carbon filters. I noticed increased fan activity and temperature creep in the room. I had this problem during early testing and assumed it was dry wall dust. Well there's no dry wall dust in there now. I planned to do something for water but it's going to have to happen sooner than later now.
Quick trip out to the air compressor and we'll be good to go again.
The plants are doing good. Still very short and bushy, very short internodal spacing. Everything has red stems/veins again just like previous rounds. Even the Cherry Hill and gigabud. Seems to be from light exposure? Not sure. Cherry Hill is still dealing with the wet medium and root damage from transplanting and flushing to new nutes, gigabud already perked back up.
Quick trip out to the air compressor and we'll be good to go again.
The plants are doing good. Still very short and bushy, very short internodal spacing. Everything has red stems/veins again just like previous rounds. Even the Cherry Hill and gigabud. Seems to be from light exposure? Not sure. Cherry Hill is still dealing with the wet medium and root damage from transplanting and flushing to new nutes, gigabud already perked back up.
Ran into a bit of an issue. I knew the hard water would bite me somewhere but I didn't expect it to be my carbon filters. I noticed increased fan activity and temperature creep in the room. I had this problem during early testing and assumed it was dry wall dust. Well there's no dry wall dust in there now. I planned to do something for water but it's going to have to happen sooner than later now.
Quick trip out to the air compressor and we'll be good to go again.
The plants are doing good. Still very short and bushy, very short internodal spacing. Everything has red stems/veins again just like previous rounds. Even the Cherry Hill and gigabud. Seems to be from light exposure? Not sure. Cherry Hill is still dealing with the wet medium and root damage from transplanting and flushing to new nutes, gigabud already perked back up.
Don't think it's deposits from water unless you have some kind of humidifier that is spraying hard water for the filter to suck up. The deposits should stay in whatever bucket, reservoir, etc the water is in. The hard water deposits are left behind after the water evaporates. Mold maybe...... or the rock material you have in the tops of your pots.
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Big ole fogger down there
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And it's certainly not mold. Also the first time was without plants/pots so doubtful it came from the pots that weren't in there
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i still need to clean my pre filters every week. So much dust in the air. And i keep a clean house but if you displace alot of air your going to have a lot of dust 
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- #637
Yup. Constant battle. My furnace filter is full of it every month
Guess this weekend is fan cleaning weekend.... room and plants look great turbo. I'm just glad you figured out the issue with the board. Good shit
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- #639
I'm just glad I didn't bury them things up there lol. Still easy to service. Hopefully everything comes together by the end of this grow. Should have funds for the light on the other side in the next month or so. Then we'll be rolling.
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- #640
Adjusted bagseed Barbie's chains and spread her out a little more.
Some shots of lower growth not much going on vertically