Don't look back Mac.
Shit ain't broke, don't fix it.
Meanwells , and BXEB gen 1 still burning strong here.
But since you brought it up, it's high time I go on a lengthy, hairsplitting, Octopart-data sheet goosechase in search of gaining 2-3% efficacy. I'll report back when I sober up.
Well, shit, that’s good news, my man! I’ll let you do the dirty work for the details to satisfy your curiosity ?
I was just curious if we’d come leaps and bounds since then, or if people are shaving away at efficiency numbers slowly. My strips are the old single row, 22" "Samsung" 561c strips from Ali Baba. Dunno how authentic they are, (never scoped diodes) but they’ve been well worth their money. I know they have double and triple row strips though too.
I thought I’d read something about a higher end driver than Meanwell becoming more popular / available, but I’m glad people are still using the MWs.
I’m running a 480 (something something) for flower, and 240 (something) for veg.
I’ve got ideas for reconfiguring / rebuilding the lights that I’m pretty excited about, until I can build new ones.
Gonna rebuild the veg light in the next couple days, but the flower one is gonna take help from someone with a 3D printer. I think it’ll be a pretty cool design, if for a niche market. I’m a vert grower, and built my lights with that in mind.
Sometimes people change their minds though, so I came up with an idea for a convertible LED fixture that could be run horizontal or vertical.
It’ll be a minute til I can get an aluminum prototype built, but eventually, I hope to have it 3D printable, as I said.
Actually, now that it’s getting nicer out, I may try to get the flower light done after the veg lights. It’s just a lot of tedious cutting and grinding aluminum angle iron.
I’m so happy to be using LEDs again- it’s been Flouros and a 1k for the last year...
...it’ll be even nicer to build shiny new ones though!