Sun Board Strip 50w 6500k 96 Samsung lm561c LEDs Grow Light quantum vegetative

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This listing is for a single 6500k quantum strip and will be shipped out to you after purchase by end of day!! 5 Year warranty!!! Please save my information and contact me if there is ever a problem with your strip. For the price/diode, these strips are the best deal on the market right now! These sun boards use the same diodes as the very popular quantum boards, however these strips will cost you much less!!
This listing is for a single 6500k, CRI 90, 96-diode STRIPS ONLY (no driver included) They are rated at 24v and get 2amps max. I was able to push them to 2.25amps at 24.3v, but they get super hot at that voltage and need a heatsink. (Dimensions: 1.2" x 15.8" x 0.2") these get up to 207 lumens per watt! The 2700k diodes are for flowering plants and the 6500k is for veg growth. Since these are full spectrum lights, creating a light fixture using 2x 2700k strips and 1x 6500k will yield an overall color temperature of 4000k, which should make a great dual/full spectrum setup that would be perfect for the entire growth cycle. This is because the 6500k will have more wavelengths of the far blue spectrum than any of the other lm561c diode color temperatures, and the 2700k will have more further reds than the other lm561c diode color temperatures, meaning you will have the broadest spectrum of visible light possible by selecting this combination.
This listing is for a single strip ONLY. There are no drivers included, but please just message me and we will determine the best driver for your configuration.
There are many types of configurations you could do with these strips. When I created my light fixtures I used the following procedure and materials:
What you will need to complete this project is first determining a proper driver (you need to drive these strips between 19v and 24v and the higher voltage you give them the more amperage they use. So if you were to run 3 strips in parallel at 19v it will be around 0.5amps and at 24v the 3 strips will use about 6amps. Meanwell drivers are great if you are only powering one fixture. So 3 of these strips would need 150w max so a meanwell hlg-150-24a would do the trick if wiring in parallel.
If you are advanced at electronics and want to save some money on a driver you can use an xbox 360 power supply and boost converter like the image shown below, please note that this is an advanced technique and you should message me for better instructions before attempting this.
If you plan on powering many lights, a good driver would be the chargery s1200 because it lets you have complete control over how much power you want to put on all your lights at the same time.. The chargery s1200 is great for wiring all your lights in parallel, and it gets up to 50amps/1200w at up to 24v, which will be able to fully power up to 25 strips at the same time,
or even 50 strips at 50%max.
you will also need some sort of fixture/ structure to attach the lights to, i use half sheet aluminum cookie sheets (18"x13")
you will need to create something to hang the fixture with, I drilled holes in the 4 corners of the sheets and used rope and tied a knot through the holes, and attached some grow light ratchet hangers to the rope to allow for easy raising and lowering of the lights..
thick wire for power supply to light fixture (12gauge should work great, I use 10 gauge even though it is overkill), if you use the meanwell driver you won't need this because it will be provided by the driver.
thinner wire for the strips(18 gauge solid core works best, I used stranded wire and had a heck of a time getting it to attach to the terminals, but I did eventually get it), the biggest wire that will fit in the strips is 18awg. Pushing the pins on the strip with a small flat head screwdriver allows you to fasten the wire to the strip. If for some reason if the onboard connectors give you issues, you can just solder wires directly to the board. I've also talked to others that used hot glue to fasten the wires in. DIY is awesome and should be something everyone should attempt if they are into saving money and know how to troubleshoot!
I highly recommend getting some good wire strippers like:
wire connectors (I prefer the screw style wire connectors but you can use solder and shrink tube also, anytime you can use shrink tube that looks the most professional but is more permanent than the screw connectors). I really like the
WireGard Screw-On Wire Connector Assortment,
you can find this at a hardware store or even here on ebay. The big blue wire connectors are great for connecting your main driver wires to the smaller wires that go to each strip.
thermal tape. Anything higher than 1.5 w/mk will be great 1.0 w/mk would work too. Please note these are usually very sticky and it will be very difficult to remove the strips once you apply them to an aluminum or copper surface. I love thermal tape as it makes it much less messy than thermal paste, and it acts as a binder for the strips to the cookie sheets.
You can add some c-channel aluminum to the back of the cookie sheet as well as some cpu fans that will need to be wired in pairs in series so you can just use the same power as the lights. So take two 12v fans, wire them in series, and connect those "series pairs" in parallel to the driver so that they will not need a different power supply. Please message me if you need help with anything. The image shown below has only 5 fans, so I will need to add an additional fan to this setup in order to create 3 series pairs that can be run off of the 22v-24v power supply. Depending on how hard you run the strips, this may be overkill, but if you are running the strips close to max, then this will be your best option for heat dissipation to keep the strips cool, which will make the strips last much longer.
Here is another configuration using heatsinks attached to the back of the cookie sheet:
Honestly I just use 18x13 aluminum cookie sheets. They cost at walmart and you can buy them in bulk for about each if you buy like 10 of them at the same time on webstaurantstore. They will absorb almost 150 watts worth of heat so 3 strips run close to max shouldn't have any heat issues. If you want to put more strips on each tray then you may need to add some heatsinks to the back of the trays if max lumens are desired. I use 5 quantum strips per tray plus two heatsinks attached to the back of the tray with 4x60mm fans and 1x giant 120mm fan. However the fans may be overkill and heatsinks may only be needed for this type of setup since I will only be running the lights at 30% max.
Each pair of 10 gauge wires can power up to 15 strips. The 12 gauge wires can power about 12 strips at max. I wire 5x 18 gauge wires to each of the main lines using a big screw on wire connector. And those 5 wires will all go on the terminals of the strips. The big 10 or 12 gauge wires will be connected to the black and red terminals or wires that come out of the driver.
I know my instructions are not the easiest to follow. please contact me anytime for advice or directions and I will usually answer by or before the next day. I trust meanwell as the best driver for a small grow light setup. Meanwell HLG-xxxH-24A will suit your needs in this. to determine what the xxx should be, take the amount of strips that you wish to use and multiply that number by 48 --> the xxx will need to be higher than the number you get. so for example if I use 3 strips, 3 x 48 = 144, meaning the Meanwell HLG-
150
H-24A will be perfect. The "A" means there is an onboard dimmer so a potentiometer isn't required to be connected to the driver.
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This listing is for 1 STRIP ONLY, Here is an example of a finished tray with 5 strips:
This listing is for 1 STRIP ONLY