Ultimate LED Bulbs - Ultra High CRI - The Honorable Quest

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@DustinH

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The reason why I favor many strips over a smaller amount of COBs is because with strips the light would be spread more evenly, and if I needed to lower the light closer to the plants, with COBs that leads to much smaller regions that are really intense. With strips there's more light sources, more dispersed and this actually leads to a limit where the plants can get a lot closer and the light spread will still be even enough to not burn sections.

Also I may be wrong here but it seems that if I were to mount strips on aluminum channels or extrusions this would be sufficient for cooling. The COB style grow lights I've seen usually have either a compact fan powered heatsink or a very large passive heatsinks and I'm wanting to avoid that if possible.

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But did you checked Juhong's lineup? The manufacturer sells small sunlight spectrum COBs too, with 5W and 10W rated power units. These you can run at rated current/power, or half of it for longer life. Could buy a bunch and install them on cheap as chips heatsinks like these, with just 5W or less per emitter your light will be quite evenly spread. The spectrum is also comparatively better to that of high CRI emitters designed for human visual usage.

For high CRI led strips you can check out this thread: SKV89's LED Strips and bulbs test results.