Let's see your lighting setups!

[Foogoo]

If you don't mind, post pictures of your setups! I'm considering a small indoor setup and debating how to configure it. My biggest issue is I want to try a floodlight fixture and how it could be mounted for portability. Any ideas?

[naoki]

Are you talking about those LED flood lights from ebay? I'm making something similar. I just got 30W COB-type LED + driver for about $15 from ebay, and attached it to a CPU heatsink. It turned out that the all diodes are not firing, so the seller is going to send me a new one. Even with 2/3 of diodes working, it looks pretty bright, and it has fairly even light spread. I'll try to post once I get the replacement in. If you get the equivalent in the pre-assembled flood light package, it is about $30, which is pretty decent price (if the quality is ok).

[Laserbeak]

I've got a mixture of clamp-on sockets with the spotlight-type LEDs and the more industrial 300W or so units that hang over the plants, and really I must say they're worth it. The spotlights are always getting knocked into and turned in the wrong direction and plants aren't getting light and stuff. The hanging lights are just extremely bright and take care of all the plants below.

I'll try to remember to take some pics during the day. The lights are off and the plants getting their night rest right now.

[sbrofio]

Hi! I'm just waiting courier with my brand new LED tubes: 6 lights formed by:
1 3800 K
2 6500 K
1 8000 K
1 12000 K
about 2000 lumens every lamp.

Now they will be just linked to a timer on/off (10:45 h/day) all together but in one or two months I want to add a second timer to have dawn/sunset with the 3800K lamp.
I'll put all the stuff in my brand new orchidarium (now it's only a big glass cube). Will post pics as soon as lights arrive!

[Foogoo]

Originally Posted by naoki

Are you talking about those LED flood lights from ebay?

Yes! However, I may start with just a small table. I might upgrade to an orchid rack later, and whether I do or don't, it probably won't stay in one place in my house for long. Which is why I need to devise a way for it to be portable and versatile.

[Paul]

This is mine. It can be easily disassembled into smaller parts should I need to pack it up.

[Laserbeak]

OK, well the backstory here is I live in a NYC studio apt. and used to have a decent view of uptown but they just built a huge building on the other side of my block, so I really have no view. It's not so bad you can reach out and touch the wall of the other building (yes, I've actually seen apartments here like that), but there's not much interesting to see and I get some good reflected light off the new building (my windows are north facing).

So, I decided to put up racks of Orchids in front of the windows instead of just putting back up the blinds and always having them shut so I reappropriated these two book shelves and the metal shelf in the kitchen and have been just playing it by ear as far as lights and humidity trays.

This is still very much a work-in-progress, so please forgive the messiness and unfinished appearance.



Main Room:



Kitchen Window:

[Dan796]

I'm looking for used T5 HO light fixtures if anyone has upgraded to LED, or something else, and don't need them anymore. I'm sure we can come to some kind of ageement over it.
Thanks!

[S&K Maley]

This is our set up,3x4' t8 on the bottom,4x4't8 on top with 1 2' t5 for the overflow between the stand and the south facing window. All tubes are 6500K and changed yearly.

[naoki]

Lots of nice setup!

Foogoo, I see what you are trying to do. If you want to keep it cheap, you could try to make a stand.

I'm assuming that you are talking about something like this:
10W 20W 30W 50W 100W 200W LED Warm White RGB Spotlight Flood Light Garden AC DC | eBay

1'x1'x1/2" plywood as a base, screw 3-4' 1x2 lumber perpendicular to the plywood. Then you can screw the base of flood light to the lumber at an appropriate height. If you are going with a higher Watt ones, then you may need to have a bigger base and longer lumber.

Or you can make a hanger from PVC pipes.

If you don't mind the cost, how about hanging it from boom-style light stand:
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sbrofio, that's a lot of blue biased light. It will be interesting to see how orchids grow with it. In some plants, blue lights can make compact plants.

Laserbeak, it is quite a setup!