This is my journey of setting up 6 ISH boards and growing 6 Gorilla Glue plants under them, ScrOG style. The ISH boards were delivered today along with the driver to run them, but I have a bunch of other things to buy before I can switch them on. This will probably take a week but I'll edit this first post to include all the parts I needed to buy. This is where they came from Invisible Sun is the Premier Supplier of Quantum lighting solutions 6x ISH150 boards (3000k) 1x Meanwell HLG 480H C2100A driver 4x 1m aluminium angle (25mm x 25mm x 2mm) 2x 0.58m aluminium angle (25mm x 25mm x 2mm) 36x m5 stainless steel bolts (16mm) and nuts 24x m5 nylon washers 1x 2 cord cable connector 1x 240v plug 1x 3m 1.5mm², 2 core outdoor flexi cable 1x 2m 1.5mm², solid core cable 8x 12" stainless steel rope hangers 1x 6mm/6mm aluminium bar to make the cord clamp 1x rubber grommet
These are the boards and driver Each one is an ISH150, and has 150 Samsung LM301B diodes. These ones produce light of 3000 kelvin, as they are predominantly going to be used for flowering. Other kelvin temperatures are available. They can be run up to 85 watts but I'll be keeping them at about 70w for a grand total of 420 watts combined (why the hell not right?) They will be replacing my air cooled 600w HPS, which has served me well over the last 6 years. I have been very pleased with it but the efficiency has now fallen behind. HPS having a 150 lumens per watt ratio just doesn't compete with the Samsung LM301B efficiency of 220 lumens per watt. It's a no brainer. Not all of the 90,000 lumens from the HPS make it through the air cooled hood, and they are nowhere as evenly distributed as the 92,400 lumens that should be coming from these boards. So with around 200 watts of electricity saved, and the fact that I can take out the hood fan (so less noise) means this should be a far superior set up
Yeah, I guess it will depend on your own country's import tax laws and how much it would cost to ship, you'd need to do your own maths on that I suppose. These boards seem top quality though. Getting them from this company does seem to simplify things when you're in the UK at least
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Beautiful!! What size tent? Love how clean that frame is. I used a hand saw to build a buddy of mines frame I will not do that again. We were stupid high and it came out a tad rough Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The tent is 0.8m x 1.2m (about 2.5' x 4') There should be about 100mm (4") of space all around the outside of the frame, and roughly about the same gap between the boards too It worked out well because I only needed two cuts as I had bought 6x 1m lengths, so wasn't too bad. I used a junior hacksaw
Ima bout to purchase the very same, very soon, I might go 8 panel and 600w will have to see how cash is when purchase time comes. I will be following along, maybe compare notes when I get mine going.
My canopy ie. the size of my scrog net is 1.5m *2.2m. So I will be getting as may panels as i can afford to cover one half of it so 1.5m * 1.1m. I bought a mars hydro 2 1600w (630 real watts). recently so that has the other half covered for the moment but it will get relegated to veg room as soon as i can get more boards. The boards will be replacing a 600w hps. I am pretty excited as it will be nice to max out the lums in my area as i have been trying to keep my wattage under 2000w for everything. Looks like these boards will do the job.
Yea, Looking at it again it think 9 might be a better number. So did you make the frame up yourself or did it come with a kit?
I made it, I bought 6x 1m metre lengths of aluminium angle, 25mm x 25mm x 2mm. Cut two of them down to 580mm and bolted them altogether with m5 stainless steel bolts. It was simple enough. I ran out of time so I'll bolt on the ISH boards tomorrow, and then hopefully connect them all up to the driver and it'll be finished Yeah 9 in your space would be awesome
So after Thinking about it a bit more I think the best option would be 2 * 6 board setups running 480w drivers each and 1* 3 board with 240w driver. this way i can get 80w per board which i think is the max i can get with the available drivers. Although i will then have 15 boards total if i ran two 640w drivers that would give me a total of 85.333w per board. humm, I dont suppose you know if these boards can handle a little extra juice? They usually add a bit of padding when designing these things. Maybe add in some Far Red to soak up the extra juice! Any way i have plenty of time to figure it out. I will start with a 6 board and take it form there. Got quoted £410 for everything needed, thats pretty decent. Now the long wait till payday! Keep us will post on your progress. Im gonna have to live vicariously through you for awhile!