Who else is amazed and grateful for all of the modern advances in home grow equipment?

[wil2279]

The tech is great until china trash ruins it and consumers that buy and support it. Those so called cheap china lights with so called Samsung diodes aren't Samsung for the most part. They are china knock off diodes advertising as Samsung. Why do you think Samsung is shutting down there led production? It's not worth their time to get ripped off by china and stupid North Americans and Europeans. After buying some of AC Infinity's new china junk.... And I knew better. I would pay more to go back to the 1970's and 80's for quality built lights, controls, fans and embrace the old tech and spend more for the needed power.

So Samsung manufacturers it's LED's in China and Korea so I don't know if it is fair to call them "Chinese knockoffs". I am all for American manufacturing, but i also buy what I can afford. And while everyone is entitled to their opinions, and I respect that, I would never want to take our grow tech back to the 70's and 80's. We have come too far to go back now. Part of developing as a grower is adapting to new things. Whether that be lights, automation, grow media, fertilizers, materials and so on. If a guy likes growing to HPS, I say rock on man, but I don't think I could ever personally recommend someone start their grow with MH or HPS. Unless they have special circumstances... maybe they live in a cold climate and want the light to help heat the grow area... idk.

 

[superpsy]

So Samsung manufacturers it's LED's in China and Korea so I don't know if it is fair to call them "Chinese knockoffs". I am all for American manufacturing, but i also buy what I can afford. And while everyone is entitled to their opinions, and I respect that, I would never want to take our grow tech back to the 70's and 80's. We have come too far to go back now. Part of developing as a grower is adapting to new things. Whether that be lights, automation, grow media, fertilizers, materials and so on. If a guy likes growing to HPS, I say rock on man, but I don't think I could ever personally recommend someone start their grow with MH or HPS. Unless they have special circumstances... maybe they live in a cold climate and want the light to help heat the grow area... idk.

It's not Samsung production in china. It's theft by knock off/copy and false advertising. Thats all been proven. Bridgelux and Osram are having the same issues now. Meanwell ripped HLG off and outright stole there led driver designs and part numbers and started selling them on the open market. HLG had to transition to another manufacture for the larger led drivers and development and lost there ass to Meanwell because of theft. I don't know what HLG is going to do because there the ones that brought the horticulture led idea to Samsung thus developing the tech and pushing it forward just to have china rip it off. But as long as it's cheap and fits your budget it's all cool right? I've had china steal pump and control tech. Reproduce and knock off right down to the casting and s/n. It got so bad that I would have 24 hr. security on jobs at American University's to protect our products from knock off scavenger students until we turned the job over to the university. Because if we didn't the students would take picture, measurements and material samples by filing shafts, castings and anything else they could get there hands on and turn it all over to there handlers. Then in less than a year the knock off products would show up in North America and in the EU/UK right down to the s/n's and casting numbers. A buddy of mine developed a tool system that makes working on advance motorcycle suspension systems easy for the common person at a reasonable price. Quality tools made in America, went through the pat. process everything above board. On the market less than two years and the china knock offs can be bought on Amazon and there is nothing he can do about it. But it's cheap and the price is right so that justifies the theft. My own family has fought this mess dating back to farming and mining pat. and principles. I'm all for tech and advancement,,, not theft.

 

[BasicMember]

I know nothing about my light and what diodes they are or where they are made. It's from a Belgian company. So china I guess.

 

[Triple Sec]

A Chinese company CEC has owned Bridgelux since about 2015 and very few LEDs are actually made in the USA by any company. Osram has plants China, Germany and Malaysia.

I used to build servers. I literally built 1000s of them. Even back then there were very few mainboards made in the USA. Super Micro being the only one at that time. All the Intel brand server boards were made by a company in Taiwan. Might have been Foxcon but it was super rare i ever had to replace a server board from Intel. I did replace plenty from SuperMicro.

 

[WeedHopper]

A Chinese company CEC has owned Bridgelux since about 2015 and very few LEDs are actually made in the USA by any company. Osram has plants China, Germany and Malaysia.

I used to build servers. I literally built 1000s of them. Even back then there were very few mainboards made in the USA. Super Micro being the only one at that time. All the Intel brand server boards were made by a company in Taiwan. Might have been Foxcon but it was super rare i ever had to replace a server board from Intel. I did replace plenty from SuperMicro.

My 1st build was back in 1998. I bought all my shit from Fry's Electronics.
It had a Pentium 933 that I over clocked to 1050.

 

[Triple Sec]

Whether that be lights, automation, grow media, fertilizers, materials and so on.

I just got 1 AC Infinity 79 Pro outlet controller. I like it so much i will get the fancy one next when my inline fan dies. AC sells an inline as a kit with the nicer controller. I would have gotten it this time but needed to control 2 AC outlet plugs. Those are $25 a pop addons for the fancy controller. When you buy the inline kit you save around $50.

Its nice to open the app and see whats going on from anywhere in the house. I can be 2 floors away and change a schedule/cycle/on/off/dimming ect.

 

[Triple Sec]

My 1st build was back in 1998. I bought all my shit from Fry's Electronics.
It had a Pentium 933 that I over clocked to 1050.

We over clocked like mad back in the day. Tons of people still do. I just buy Power Spec PCs now because they are cheaper than i can build them with the same parts. Ive got 3 sofar and they have all been great. No proprietary garbage like Dell/HP. If the 500watt PS takes a dump i just go to the local PC shop and buy one.

You can get Power Spec through MicroCenter. Its their house brand.

 

[WeedHopper]

I built many computers as a hobby. Fry's was my favorite store to buy motherboards, processors and hardware.
And I totally agree with you about being able to buy them cheaper nowadays than building them from scratch.
And yeah I overclocked every build and added extra fans to keep it cool.

 

[Triple Sec]

Only thing i sort of build now days are micros. They are pretty much all put together. Just add ram and drive/s. They make great little file servers for the home and small enough to hang on the back of a Smart TV. A small UPS will run one for hours too. Comes in handy once in awhile. I think the last one i built pulled less than 20watts according to the UPS software....I wanna say like 15 LOL.

 

[wil2279]

I just got 1 AC Infinity 79 Pro outlet controller. I like it so much i will get the fancy one next when my inline fan dies. AC sells an inline as a kit with the nicer controller. I would have gotten it this time but needed to control 2 AC outlet plugs. Those are $25 a pop addons for the fancy controller. When you buy the inline kit you save around $50.

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I just got a few ac infinity products. I got the smaller humidifier, the heater, a 6" fan and a 4 inch carbon filter with inline fan and the controller. I have not hooked any of them up just yet. I'm waiting for a a hole saw bit to cut a hole in my ceiling so I can exhaust my excess heat and smell into my attic area.

 

[superpsy]

OOOO computer life, overclocking, quads and duallys, water cooling, vapor cooling. Rode that wave from the XT days up until about 2 years ago. Glad I'm on the beach now chilling out....

 

[superpsy]

I just got a few ac infinity products. I got the smaller humidifier, the heater, a 6" fan and a 4 inch carbon filter with inline fan and the controller. I have not hooked any of them up just yet. I'm waiting for a a hole saw bit to cut a hole in my ceiling so I can exhaust my excess heat and smell into my attic area.

I got my crappy T7 humidifiers hooked up outside the tents. One has already failed. AC Infinity is replacing it. It's now over shooting setpoint by 10% on it's own control interface a 69 Pro+ and Ai controller. And it looks like the other T7 is going to fail also down the road. These are the 2nd Gen Humidifiers and still have problems. Got out one of my old Honeywell humidifiers and Inkbird controllers and it maintains within .5% of setpoint while I wait for a replacement T7 to get here. How the mighty have fell. I might even go back to my old #67 controllers and old 6" exhaust fans and scrap all this new china junk AC Infinity stuff.