Chameleon
Valuable Member
So I decided to update my lighting. My LEDs I built four years ago were showing their age with burnt bulbs minor flickering and corrosion. Rather than trying to rehabilitate the old DIY setup that included 4 retrofit T5's that were added two years ago when I moved I decided to pull an old hood out of storage that was fitted with two VHOs and one 150w DE halide.
I took everything out of the old black hood and painted it brown to match my stand and the inside I painted white.
I decided to go with two of the evergrow 120w (55 3w LED) LED fixtures after seeing some success with those lights by other people. I also will be running two whiter T5's instead of 4 (two blue two white) like my old setup and will just be using them to bring the color spectrum more to the white side without having to crank up the white leds so much.
Here are some pics of my progress:
Paint job and light struts added:
Found these really cool tool magnets at harbor freight that I thought would work well for mounting the LEDs (using two per LED panel):
LED test fit:
Another shot:
I'm trying to find a good way to install the T5's this morning so more to come!
-Tyler
I took everything out of the old black hood and painted it brown to match my stand and the inside I painted white.
I decided to go with two of the evergrow 120w (55 3w LED) LED fixtures after seeing some success with those lights by other people. I also will be running two whiter T5's instead of 4 (two blue two white) like my old setup and will just be using them to bring the color spectrum more to the white side without having to crank up the white leds so much.
Here are some pics of my progress:
Paint job and light struts added:
Found these really cool tool magnets at harbor freight that I thought would work well for mounting the LEDs (using two per LED panel):
LED test fit:
Another shot:
I'm trying to find a good way to install the T5's this morning so more to come!
-Tyler
