Jungle Dawn LED's

[cyberlocc]

That bridglux one is interesting. To bad they don't have one with a bit more even "m" to the wave. A mix of 27h or 30h and the 56g would be great .
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They do have redder lights, it's their standard 29 series.

You mix those with like these https://www.rapidled.com/vero29-3000k-90-cri-b/

The wave depends on the actual COBs used, you can make a pretty high PUR, with mixing them. Alot of the bad plants people use that split, and get good Flower/Veg cycles. With high effiencency.

The L/W isn't as good with the 3000ks(they have a 2700 like that too), but still better than most.

If you can increase the budget a bit, for your reds, this has been crossing my mind for a superior option for reds. https://www.rapidled.com/chilled-logic-100w-puck/

One of those, with 2 of the Veros, should have you set pretty well. And you can manually dim based on season, or however you want to do it.

As for drivers, that depends how you want to do things.

You said, 6, we will go with that.

This should do ya 6, and allows dimming. https://www.rapidled.com/mean-well-hlg-320h-c1400b/

You would want to wire in series with that, which is safer, and that would drive them all at 50ws. 8211 lumens I think it was.

This will do ya 3 at the full 80ws test. https://www.rapidled.com/mean-well-hlg-320h-c2100b/

If you really want to see how your lights are doing. I recommend one of these.

https://www.seneye.com/store/seneye-reef.html,

It's a reef monitoring solution and half the stuff you won't use that's okay. It's also a PAR meter, that is within 5% of the LIs, that cost 10x as much, and is the only that I know of PUR meter in the world currently, and that's why you want it .

It's not cosign corrected though, so holding it straight is a must.

 

[cyberlocc]

I have so much to learn...

Knowing that is half the battle , it's all good, now you can start your journey .

Just brace yourself for when you invetiably end up on shady forums that have you not sleeping at night because the fear that the FBI is going to kick your door in because you signed up for the forum. Sad fact is, that's where the the money is in the lighting industry, and with it comes the information .

Some other good places, is Carnivorous Plant sites, and Orchid sites. Those high dollar, extreme light requiring plants people know their stuff . And you would be amazed at the cost of some of those CPs. It's insane, never before would I pegged myself as someone who would spend 100 dollars on a seedling. My wife is like you paid how much for that twig! And there is some that go for much much more.

Feels good though, when that seedling that requires immense amount of light, and water requirements that makes Chameleons look like desert reptiles, begins to grow .

My current CP, my 100 dollar one sadly didn't arrive to me . The guy messed up the customs paperwork .

This was a tiny thing when it arrived, and it's growing fast. It's going to go in my cage once it gets some meat on it, they can grow to 2ft vine in the wild. It's still a baby.

It just got misted, that's water not dew, later tonight I will snap a dew shot. Just had to give him a toothpick to climb, as he has been fed well and growing fast.

 

[Decadancin]

I will pay you 10 times what you got paid for being a Moderator this last year...10 X 0=SORRY.

@nick barta , that is still the best offer I have gotten!

 

[Decadancin]

I have so much to learn...

 

[dshuld]

They do have redder lights, it's their standard 29 series.

You mix those with like these https://www.rapidled.com/vero29-3000k-90-cri-b/

The wave depends on the actual COBs used, you can make a pretty high PUR, with mixing them. Alot of the bad plants people use that split, and get good Flower/Veg cycles. With high effiencency.

The L/W isn't as good with the 3000ks(they have a 2700 like that too), but still better than most.

If you can increase the budget a bit, for your reds, this has been crossing my mind for a superior option for reds. https://www.rapidled.com/chilled-logic-100w-puck/

One of those, with 2 of the Veros, should have you set pretty well. And you can manually dim based on season, or however you want to do it.

As for drivers, that depends how you want to do things.

You said, 6, we will go with that.

This should do ya 6, and allows dimming. https://www.rapidled.com/mean-well-hlg-320h-c1400b/

You would want to wire in series with that, which is safer, and that would drive them all at 50ws. 8211 lumens I think it was.

This will do ya 3 at the full 80ws test. https://www.rapidled.com/mean-well-hlg-320h-c2100b/

If you really want to see how your lights are doing. I recommend one of these.

https://www.seneye.com/store/seneye-reef.html,

It's a reef monitoring solution and half the stuff you won't use that's okay. It's also a PAR meter, that is within 5% of the LIs, that cost 10x as much, and is the only that I know of PUR meter in the world currently, and that's why you want it .

It's not cosign corrected though, so holding it straight is a must.

It would be 4 to 5, likely 5, over the cage I'm talking about. I would probably run two 27h or two 30h and three of the 56g. The dimming driver would probably be my choice since I'd have to run two drivers anyway. The cage currently has a sunblaze 46 so I'm not really in a big rush on that one lol. But, I do have a redesign on the list of things to do with that one. The addition of the dedicated 660nm is interesting on that chilled chip. The finnex planted plus having them was the reason I got it when I did for the 20l when I had my planted tanks set up. But, looking at the distribution of the chilled chip vs the 27h, it looks like it doesn't cover the reds as broadly, or as strong, as the 27h or 30h does.



I did find your plantedtank thread with Jeff from last month where you were planning your build. Only skimmed the thread here and there today but looked like it was worth a more in-depth read when I have time. The couple of things that stuck out that I want to read more into in that was seemed like he was advocating more the fresh series and that the seneye has some issues with programming and a less then desirable sensor compounding issues.

 

[cyberlocc]

OP in an effort to stop hijacking your thread, I am moving this post to the another one.