3-thirteen Monkey Juice & Purple Primate

[JL2G]

Ha! I spent my money I had for my tablet upgrade on my cob light parts lol

For the one your taking apart and redoing, or doing a complete new build?
Speaking of the first mention, why redo it if it's a working light, and your replacing pretty much all the internals?
If I remember right you've got the drivers and cobs, all you'd be missing is heatsinks and a few frame pcs.
Imho I'd just build a complete second light and have extras, or more lights in the grow.
Give your new light a bigger footprint than the old one limits you to building in.
Or is there some other part of it, or consideration I'm missing that sways the decision?
Happy to help if you have questions about any of it.

 

[horribleherk]

For the one your taking apart and redoing, or doing a complete new build?
Speaking of the first mention, why redo it if it's a working light, and your replacing pretty much all the internals?
If I remember right you've got the drivers and cobs, all you'd be missing is heatsinks and a few frame pcs.
Imho I'd just build a complete second light and have extras, or more lights in the grow.
Give your new light a bigger footprint than the old one limits you to building in.
Or is there some other part of it, or consideration I'm missing that sways the decision?
Happy to help if you have questions about any of it.

Its a vipar spectra 1200 Chinese blurple that pulls 520 w. at the wall I'm hacking it using the existing fans & heatsinks as well as all the electrical & outer housing (19 x 19) putting in 6 luminus cobs cxm22 3500k 80 cri & 2" mean well axg 240 h-ab dimmable drivers & dimmers the luminus cobs can be ran hard up to 130 w. I'll max at 80 w. haven't ordered the drivers yet I'll cover the build here as well as my complete setups I got here mid grow & haven't made my methods & equip clear as I should of have

 

[horribleherk]

My babies for the next round will be vegging under t-5s as my grows finish

 

[horribleherk]

Feeding time in both tents megacrop & bud explosion

 

[JL2G]

Its a vipar spectra 1200 Chinese blurple that pulls 520 w. at the wall I'm hacking it using the existing fans & heatsinks as well as all the electrical & outer housing (19 x 19) putting in 6 luminus cobs cxm22 3500k 80 cri & 2" mean well axg 240 h-ab dimmable drivers & dimmers the luminus cobs can be ran hard up to 130 w. I'll max at 80 w. haven't ordered the drivers yet I'll cover the build here as well as my complete setups I got here mid grow & haven't made my methods & equip clear as I should of have

Do the drivers have their specs listed on them, there should be a tag/sticker or some such that states their voltage and current ratings.
Depending on what they are they could be repurposed and or used.
Maybe save a few bucks.

 

[horribleherk]

Do the drivers have their specs listed on them, there should be a tag/sticker or some such that states their voltage and current ratings.
Depending on what they are they could be repurposed and or used.
Maybe save a few bucks.

They are 27-56v constant current drivers I'm getting them from online components.com I'm on the fence as to run 480 or 400 w my cobs are 50v 2 of the xlg 200h-ab will work too has same voltage range the price for them is $46 - $49 each xlg drivers cheaper than hlg series will be running my cobs parallel I'm not above running a refurbished or even a used driver if the deal was right the xlg series I guess is pretty new I've been consulting a few people more experienced than me this is my first attempt the mA on the xlg 200 is 3500 & the 240 is somewhat higher but will work with room to spare as well

 

[horribleherk]

everything in place & I'm just waiting for these buds to plump up really liking the growth characteristics of the purple primate can't wait to see the finished product

 

[horribleherk]

The monkey juice clones seem to be more aggressive growing than her seedlings were in both phenos I have babies from both m\j & p\p next round is gonna be single plant grows of the best pheno of each strain to be determined after harvest

 

[horribleherk]

The monkey juice is starting to put on early frost my junky tablet can't get it to show but its there

 

[horribleherk]

The monkey juice grows way different from clone than it did from seed the purple primate grew more aggressive from seed now from clone its the exact opposite & the monkey juice is clearly the larger plants in spite of the fact the primate was first to root

 

[horribleherk]

Purple Primate tonight

 

[horribleherk]

Monkey Juice pheno #2 the first to give off any smell & what a smell pine tar , fuel & oddly enough coffee I am so stoked this is the exact reason I clone everything

 

[horribleherk]

The monkey juice clone on the right is structures way different than it did from seed giving way more lateral branching than the primate (L.) which will be a huge asset to the scrog next round pleased with the difference

 

[horribleherk]

Monkey juice under the cobs & purple primate under the blurple

 

[horribleherk]

Spring is here & I'm flip-flopping lights as I'm no longer needing the extra heat the innificient blurple adds so I've moved the 340w. cob light to replace the 520w. blurple on the purple primate

 

[horribleherk]

The monkey juice now has the California light works ss-275 (200w.) Instead of the cobs this light has been used in this tent before , now getting ready to start my cob build for this tent

 

[horribleherk]

I've got 2 phenos of the monkey juice & I'm leaning towards the one with slightly broader leaves & larger buds unless something convinces me otherwise before harvest overall quality so far looks like its gonna be high

 

[horribleherk]

The rest of the monkey juice pics tonight I'm working on getting a USB cable to possibly load pics from my Nikon onto my android tablet or a new tablet altogether

 

[horribleherk]

The purple primate is definatly outproduce the juice & starting to smell but I'm not sure if the quality is gonna be as good as the monkey juice we got a ways to go yet & I've got decisions to make soon as to what im gonna run & possibly a 3rd tent for the little california light works light & that would be my max

 

[horribleherk]

My favorite 2 phenos cloned & under the t-5 in 1 gal pots the monkey juice is larger & branchier than the purple primate in spite of the primate being the first to root monkey juice on the left is getting some training of the branches early on in preparation for the scrog