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Post by morphman on Nov 17, 2015 18:27:29 GMT -5
Seek help and seek it fast bro. We can arrange and intervention Nice set up
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Post by vraev on Nov 19, 2015 4:14:59 GMT -5
Looking fantastic man. I love your audrino. is it easy to pick up and develop? I always wanted to automate like that.
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Post by WillyCKH on Nov 19, 2015 12:02:35 GMT -5
Looking fantastic man. I love your audrino. is it easy to pick up and develop? I always wanted to automate like that. There's a learning curve but if you enjoy diy and self-learning, I strongly recommend
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Post by pbwaj on Nov 19, 2015 14:01:07 GMT -5
I do not know why I am just seeing this for the first time. Either way... NICE rig. very jealous. lol. I really love how elaborate you made everything. I have gotten a lot of info from this, and ideas, which is great, because i just started cleaning up and making room for something bigger and better than my current setup.
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Post by WillyCKH on Nov 19, 2015 14:17:59 GMT -5
I do not know why I am just seeing this for the first time. Either way... NICE rig. very jealous. lol. I really love how elaborate you made everything. I have gotten a lot of info from this, and ideas, which is great, because i just started cleaning up and making room for something bigger and better than my current setup. thanks while many people enjoys off the shelf products, I enjoy making things and building them myself. looking forward to your new setup!
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Post by Apoplast on Nov 19, 2015 21:47:49 GMT -5
Hi WillyCKH - I don't know how I missed this before. Wonderful setup! I do need to tell you though that future me is a little mad at you - I now must get an Arduino and learn to how to use it. Do you have any idea how much time you've cost future me? Seriously though, your setup is brilliant and very inspiring! I am absolutely going to be getting an Arduino. I've decided that manually changing the timers to simulate day length variation for my tuberous dews has got to get automated. I already found the the day lengths for every day of the year for 30° latitude, and created idealized sunrise-sunset times. Oh the plans I have! Thanks for the inspiration Willy!
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Post by WillyCKH on Nov 19, 2015 22:19:44 GMT -5
Hi WillyCKH - I don't know how I missed this before. Wonderful setup! I do need to tell you though that future me is a little mad at you - I now must get an Arduino and learn to how to use it. Do you have any idea how much time you've cost future me? Seriously though, your setup is brilliant and very inspiring! I am absolutely going to be getting an Arduino. I've decided that manually changing the timers to simulate day length variation for my tuberous dews has got to get automated. I already found the the day lengths for every day of the year for 30° latitude, and created idealized sunrise-sunset times. Oh the plans I have! Thanks for the inspiration Willy! Nice! I have extra arduino and parts if you are interested Your idea of having different time each day is brilliant!
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Post by lloyd on Nov 19, 2015 23:02:48 GMT -5
It's always fun to DIY. However, you can get ~$15 timers that have dawn/dusk times programmed in already. I have three of them in our house to keep the lights in synch with local day/night.
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Post by WillyCKH on Nov 20, 2015 1:30:14 GMT -5
It's always fun to DIY. However, you can get ~$15 timers that have dwn/dusk times programmed in already. I have three of them in our house to keep the lights in synch with local day/night. thats really neat!
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Post by pbwaj on Nov 20, 2015 5:01:51 GMT -5
I love the high tech stuff. Any more details? In my setup I use 10w LEDs chips, 4w LEDs chips, and smd led arrays. I find the 4w ones give out the most intensity/watt and they do not heat too much. The 10w ones are dangerous, I don't recommend them unless you have a really great cooling solutions - right now I am using ~10v to under-drive them to make sure they don't overheat and burn my home down. The smd ones work well if you have many many many of them together (take a lot of effort to put together comparing to the other two types of LEDs), it gives you a better lighting and takes away most of the shadows, best for displays. I use computer PSU to power my LEDs as for now. I'm gonna get a switching power supply (30A) to build another tower (3 levels) before winter, switching power supply has the advantage to adjust the voltage to lower or higher, making it possible to overdrive the LEDs or under-drive. Other than that it's really just monkey-works... The silver sheet is called emergency blanket, it reflects most of the light and I find it quite handy. Where do you get all of your LED's from?
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Post by WillyCKH on Nov 20, 2015 8:19:23 GMT -5
I have chips from ebay, amazon, becoming vip for few dealers because i spent too much money haha Like morphman said I do need an intervention
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Post by pbwaj on Nov 20, 2015 8:56:35 GMT -5
So would I be better off buying them from you, or from them? LOL
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Post by bcmosaic on Nov 20, 2015 14:09:23 GMT -5
Willy! I would like to learn how to do this electronic stuff. Maybe you can give a one day (paid!) course for the Lower Mainland? I have a big common room available at no charge here in the building that I live in. Cheers
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Post by WillyCKH on Nov 20, 2015 14:31:44 GMT -5
Willy! I would like to learn how to do this electronic stuff. Maybe you can give a one day (paid!) course for the Lower Mainland? I have a big common room available at no charge here in the building that I live in. Cheers That would be something I'm interested in doing! Thanks for the idea and the available room! I will prepare the materials and plan over the winter break (after my final exams )
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Post by bcmosaic on Nov 20, 2015 14:34:57 GMT -5
Yay! Thanks Willy! Cheers
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