Willy's DIY LED Grow Lights

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Hello all,
Just to share with you a few of the builds of LED grow lights that I've made for my friends recently.
Hope you likes it. :)
Feel free to share your builds too!
Willy

Are you a fan of purple LED lights that promote coloration and save on energy cost? Meet these purple bad boys.
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Or are you a fan of white lighting that simulates the Sun's color better for a balanced complete diet and for nice displays?
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This design is pretty simple, yet effective. An air-cooling heatsink on the top of the high power LED chip, and a 3D printed reflector/hood that concentrates the light to spread much evenly.
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Do you like it, or hate it? :)
 

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Well done !
But do you really need to cool it ?
Since LED don't produce a lot of heat, it should be ok without a fan no ?
 
Oh no, you will need the cooling for these high power chips for sure. Without the fan operating, the chips will be overheated and burnt within a minute or so.
The 'LED don't produce a lot of heat' statement is true, while comparing to most of the available lighting options in the market. I believe the coolest lighting option out there right now is plasma lamp, which is 'cool enough to put your tongue on it', quoting from another guy in ICPS facebook group haha. But, it is very expensive.
LED chips would heat up quickly because of the small size. Even with the most energy efficient LED chip, a certain percentage of the energy will still be converting into heat. Think heat-density, if you have the same heat dissipation over a larger body, you will experience the 'heat-up' much slower. If you have a large enough surface area, then you might able to let the surrounding air to carry away the heat, faster or equal to the rate of heat generating.
Willy
 
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Love the design, you should do a comparison between your lights and T5's.

I'm still a T5 kind of guy, for the ease, cost and payout I need someone to prove me wrong before I switch haha
 
5000lm for 50w chip, according to the given specs. Not sure what you mean by RGB count though.
 
Well I saw someone from the diy grow lights used a app for his droid phone to find out. Going to check if there is a iOS one like.
 

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Cool build. I also experimented on High Power LED chips and still using it in my tall greenhouse setup. Using a 60 watt LED chip attached to a heatsink with a dedicated fan and a big arse Driver. Always been a fan of LED over fluorescents.
 
I just want leaft pulls from my vft to stave off winter dormancy and proliferate. What kind of LED setup should I use?
 
Hello all,
Just to share with you a few of the builds of LED grow lights that I've made for my friends recently.
Hope you likes it. :)
Feel free to share your builds too!
Willy

Are you a fan of purple LED lights that promote coloration and save on energy cost? Meet these purple bad boys.
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Or are you a fan of white lighting that simulates the Sun's color better for a balanced complete diet and for nice displays?
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This design is pretty simple, yet effective. An air-cooling heatsink on the top of the high power LED chip, and a 3D printed reflector/hood that concentrates the light to spread much evenly.
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Do you like it, or hate it? :)

I am super interested in these for my Chameleon enclosures!!!!! Can we talk about this?
 
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