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Just for the record in this build I guess here are links directly to what I ordered

https://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDe ... -LZ110R205" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDe ... -LZ110R305" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDe ... -LZ110R105" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Led ... 56ya9rs%3d" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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jesus wrote:lol thanks bob, but I am hardly a pioneer with the LEDs
In a sense you are. While I've seen quite a few LED grows, this is the first time to see the particular set-up yer runnin.

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Mine is just an amalgam of every other set up out there. 24v 2.5a meanwell power supply got here. Needed more power to run parallel current drivers. I was going to have it so I would just need one power supply but then I ordered more led's too. So I will probably still need 2.

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http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news ... 210910.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

September 2010

Osram’s 660nm deep-red Golden DRAGON Plus and OSLON SSL LEDs provide 37% efficiency for plant growth pilot project

In cooperation with Fionia Lighting A/S in Denmark, a pilot project covering several thousand square meters of planting area in a commercial greenhouse has achieved energy savings of 40% using Golden DRAGON Plus and OSLON SSL LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany which, with efficiency of 37%, are among the most efficient light sources on the market in the deep red spectrum (660nm wavelength), it is claimed.

For plants to grow well in greenhouses they need the right temperature and also the right light. Light in the deep red spectrum plays a key role in plant growth because the absorption of chlorophyll in this spectral range is very high. Osram says that both its Golden DRAGON Plus and OSLON SSL LEDs now provide this deep-red light with particularly high efficiency, with typical power of 330mW at an operating current of 400mA. The chips are based on the firm's thin-film technology and, with a life of 100,000 hours, they offer maintenance-free operation for many years.

The Golden DRAGON Plus has a wide beam angle of 170° and can be used with good effect in reflector systems for illuminating large areas under cultivation. The OSLON SSL has a smaller footprint and a narrow beam angle of 80°, so they can be arranged close to one another. They can also be equipped with external optics. Osram says that their unique characteristics suit special applications such as 'multi-layer cultivation', in which salad plants are grown on stacked levels, and it is important for the lighting to be both compact and uniform.

The pilot project, in cooperation with Fionia Lighting and Osram distribution partner Arrow in Denmark, confirmed the energy-saving potential of LEDs in horticultural applications, says Osram. As part of the project, Fiona Lighting developed a luminaire system specifically for greenhouses that was equipped with a total of about 50,000 Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs. Over a cultivated area of several thousand square meters it was possible to reduce power consumption by 40%. “Flowers cultivated under LED lighting developed just as quickly as the control specimens under conventional lighting,” says Fionia Lighting’s Thomas Rubaek. “Also, the flowers cultivated under the LED lights had more buds, which attracted higher sales prices,” he adds. “At the same time we were able to reduce the use of chemicals such as growth regulatores.”

The colors red and blue are particularly important for plant growth. The emission curve of the new red LED is a good match for the spectral sensitivity of chlorophyll. Depending on the type of plant and the growth phase, the ratio of red and blue has to be individually adjusted between 10 and 30%. “If the emission curve of the light source is mapped against the spectral sensitivity curve of the plant (according to DIN 5031-10), the system luminous efficacy with LEDs is 60% higher than with the high-pressure sodium lamps currently used,” explains Dr Christoph Gärditz of Osram Opto’s SSL Business Development department. “The combination of deep red and blue LEDs offers impressive energy savings in this project as well.”

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i remembering reading about a certain red colored mulch producing noticable returns to flower growers who used it...

im suprised that everything associated with flower productions hasnt transitioned to being manufactured in this color
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New LEDs arrived today. Time to rebuild tomorrow and then pretty it up.

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put each piece in an envelop with a number of it!
make a checklist...
write out the directions THEN hit the pipe...
you should be good
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Dont have any weed to hit. Had a nice seedless 1/4 oz and smoked the last of that about 2 days ago. I am just going to have to slow myself down working I guess.

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Mostly done mounting them now. Probably wont have power to it until tomorrow. I hooked an old one up and a new one (both red) to see if the others were actually damaged and they seemed to be the same brightness so the heatsink now has 115w of LEDs on it. And even with the 2 crippled reds 3-4" is too close.

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Been working on this on and a little off for about 6 hours. As you can see all the wiring underneath is done. Four mini-constant current circuits are mounted on 1 of 2 power supplies. Might still make the hood part tonight. Just flashing I'm going to wrap around the heatsink and screw down and I will mount the blue's dimmer on that. Then all that will be left to do is hook up the power and hang it in my grow space.

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