Programmable Lights

[Bandit420]

no man, mine are steady and don't flicker one bit, not even powered via my generator. i put them on 0-1-0 a lot for pics and watering. 1-1-1 is never an issue either.

I had totally spaced out all the times I've tried to create a photo session spectrum and have used settings like 1-5-10 and stuff like that.
Maybe that is the next venture is to create that spectrum rather than try to adjust my pics after the fact on the PC.
I guess I need to go back and read up on how to create multiple programs. I never really learned how to do that and just adjust the one program.
I've never even set the calendar or any of those other features.
My lights on will always start at 00:00 and I just adjust that to an actual time. So even though my CLW clock will read midnight, it might actually be 8am or 9pm, my usual lights on times depending on time of year.

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The only issues I've ever had with CLW lights are old solarstorm models and the very old and probably extinct CAP Xtreme which was built before they were CLW.
Some solarstorms would not turn off 100%. There would always be a very dim glow but not enough to prevent flowering. Those lights could also flash very bright right before shutting down.
And the CAP had units that would overheat, burn up and shut down for good but again those are outdated lights not around anymore.

No issues at all with SolarSystem lights so I think those bugs were worked out. And only issue with Spectramax is heat but nothing mechanical.

The only other thing I can think of @GrumpAzz is to make sure the switch on the end of the light is set for controller and not for 100% output without the controller

 

[TomH]

I’m certainly interested in what you’re all doing with these programmable lights! Mainly, what I’d like to experiment with (some day), is trying to emulate exactly what happens during a normal day from excessive reds early and late (just after sunrise and just before sunset), to the slower conversion from reds to blues as the sun rises, then a slow conversion back.

For now, I’ll just let that big ball of hydrogen and helium in the sky do it all for me!

 

[Bandit420]

I’m certainly interested in what you’re all doing with these programmable lights! Mainly, what I’d like to experiment with (some day), is trying to emulate exactly what happens during a normal day from excessive reds early and late (just after sunrise and just before sunset), to the slower conversion from reds to blues as the sun rises, then a slow conversion back.

For now, I’ll just let that big ball of hydrogen and helium in the sky do it all for me!

I think you can do this type of stuff with CLW lights.
I'm fairly straight forward and dumbed down in how I use it and adjust spectrums and sunrise/sunsets but I know this thing can do a ton more than what I ask of it

 

[TomH]

I’ve heard good things about CLW, but they seem pricy!

How many grows have you done with their light? I’d be interested in your results and improvements.

 

[Bandit420]

I’ve heard good things about CLW, but they seem pricy!

How many grows have you done with their light? I’d be interested in your results and improvements.

Countless grows, 100s of plants, spanning 8 years. 2 years prior to that using older models they made. Before that I ran Philips/SunSystem CMH and before that Hortilux HPS.
Today, if there was a better grow light for what I want to do, I'd be using it but nothing has come along to kick CLW out of my room. Only light maker that might come close would be Fluence

 

[Bandit420]

Collaborations and conspiracies with CLW and ACI are afoot





Not only has the 420nm threshold been breached, the dang door was kicked in and taken down to at least 380nm and maybe even lower.
The meter only goes to 380 so not sure exactly how low. UV spectrum ranges from 0-400nm.
Now it's just a matter of getting controllers to speak to each other in the same language

 

[Rootsruler]

Collaborations and conspiracies with CLW and ACI are afoot


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Not only has the 420nm threshold been breached, the dang door was kicked in and taken down to at least 380nm and maybe even lower.
The meter only goes to 380 so not sure exactly how low. UV spectrum ranges from 0-400nm.
Now it's just a matter of getting controllers to speak to each other in the same language

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[Bandit420]

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I'll also be adding their Ionbeam full spectrum rails to my blurple panels

 

[growsinse79]

Collaborations and conspiracies with CLW and ACI are afoot


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Not only has the 420nm threshold been breached, the dang door was kicked in and taken down to at least 380nm and maybe even lower.
The meter only goes to 380 so not sure exactly how low. UV spectrum ranges from 0-400nm.
Now it's just a matter of getting controllers to speak to each other in the same language

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Just when I thought I had every light I could ever want, you gotta post this-thanks alot. Now it will be in my head until I can't resist...

 

[Bandit420]

Just when I thought I had every light I could ever want, you gotta post this-thanks alot. Now it will be in my head until I can't resist...

They're pretty cool little lights I gotta say!
The advertising says there's 10 dimmer settings which is true but really there's only 3. Like 0 is off of course then 1-3 is one level, 4-6 is another, then brightest is 7-10 so they don't really change from one digit to the next kinda like their fans have 10 settings but I think it's really like 4 split the same way.

What made me choose them over others are the magnetic mounts. So you could stick them on tent poles or anything a magnet will stick to. They also come with a little magnetic mounting bracket so you could attach the bracket to something like wood or plastic then stick the light to the bracket.
The controller is a decent little gadget and does the job well but I'll be plugging them into my ACI 69 pro+ controller so I can connect them to wifi and use my tablet to set them up.

The full spectrum lights are due to arrive today and I'm hoping I get a little time to tinker with them. Been so busy my grow projects are moving in slomo. Maybe by Sunday I'll have a complete rig to show Y'all what I'm doing with these

 

[growsinse79]

They're pretty cool little lights I gotta say!
The advertising says there's 10 dimmer settings which is true but really there's only 3. Like 0 is off of course then 1-3 is one level, 4-6 is another, then brightest is 7-10 so they don't really change from one digit to the next kinda like their fans have 10 settings but I think it's really like 4 split the same way.

What made me choose them over others are the magnetic mounts. So you could stick them on tent poles or anything a magnet will stick to. They also come with a little magnetic mounting bracket so you could attach the bracket to something like wood or plastic then stick the light to the bracket.
The controller is a decent little gadget and does the job well but I'll be plugging them into my ACI 69 pro+ controller so I can connect them to wifi and use my tablet to set them up.

The full spectrum lights are due to arrive today and I'm hoping I get a little time to tinker with them. Been so busy my grow projects are moving in slomo. Maybe by Sunday I'll have a complete rig to show Y'all what I'm doing with these

I've been using the ACI over two years and love it. The internal clock broke after 21 months, so they sent me a whole new light free-even paid the shipping.
I can't say enough good things about them-great company and product imho.

 

[Bandit420]

Very happy with the mock up on the first light.

Two more to do then lots of cord wrangling and fine tuning.
I will say these ACI lights are a ton more user friendly on the install then CLWs UV system. The cables are much easier to deal with and with the 3D printed rails ability to swivel I can change the beam angles going from narrow to wide.
In total I'll be adding on one UV2 kit, one UV4 kit, and six rails from two Ionbeam full spectrum kits.

Only downside may perhaps be the length of cable from the lights to the drivers. I've ordered extension cables just in case but in ACI's defense my configuration is way outside the box from their ideas on how to apply since they're tent based and my room is well...not a tent

https://imgur.com/a/wIycfDb

Initial program out of the box has me very happy. This is one really sexy veg spectrum as is and with some fine tuning it will be a finisher