Build Your Own High Power Led Grow Light

The first thing you need to consider here is the amount of leds you will be using the amount you will require for your plants and the power.

Build your own high power led grow light.

High power component leds component light emitting diodes led bulbs of various sizes shapes colors and brightness from many brands including cree luxeon nichia more. This is a fairly easy project with few tool requirements. How to choose a led light for your specific setup using watts. For 300 400 you can make a highend light that will smoke any chinese light by miles.

High power led grow lights m k2. A light like this will cover a space of about 2 5 x2 5 for flowering plants and will cover up to 3 x3 for vegetative growth or leafy greens. Learn how to make your own grow lights. See instructions on how to build a high power led grow light.

50 watts per square foot means that. Now compare for just 150 more you can make a light with 4 cree cobs. 4x 36 volt cobs on a mean well hlg 185h c1400. I paid 200 for two weak 300w led grow lights the cheapest china lights for 100 piece.

This setup works out to be about 50 watts per cob 200w total. This guideline is by no means perfect but will help to get you started. As a general guideline you should try to get a minimum of 50 watts per square foot with a led grow light. By the time i got tired of fooling with the chinese junk 3 watt leds had come out and i re.

Makes 200 for some crappy weak lights. Build your own diy led grow light panels at a cheap cost to start seed and grow your plants indoors without sunlight. Having played around with growing plants under led lights before i thought i d have a go at building a larger system using high power led s. Led grow lights consume less energy and produce lower heat.

I started this journey after after testing several of the low cost grow lights being imported from china. I do apologise if it looks like i m flogging a dead horse this will be my last instructable on g. Every one i tested was over hyped low powered junk. To make your own grow lights you re only going to need a h.

Let s use a common build for this tutorial. Not only that they last for a long time as well.