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• Green Glasses

  Alain Mauer • 02/13/2018 at 13:59 • 1 comment

  My red blue grow lights are good for my plants, but it’s a not very natural light for my eyes. When I look through green glass it looks much better. So I build me a green glasses and it looks very stylish 

  First I disassemble a welding goggles.

  Then I cut 2 green acrylic glasses and the size is nearly perfect

  See the difference

• 14 Of 20 Grow Lights Are Ready

  Alain Mauer • 02/04/2018 at 19:25 • 0 comments

  After I saw that my Led  lights work on plants I started to solder the other PCB's.

  I'm using a cheap 600x microscope to solder the Led's.

• The Plant Is Growing

  Alain Mauer • 01/30/2018 at 13:09 • 0 comments

  The pictures has been taken with a green filter in front of the camera lens.

• It’s Alive

  Alain Mauer • 01/23/2018 at 08:15 • 0 comments

  My plant light works. The first seed starts to grow. I’ve done a timelaps video over the day, with one picture every 60 seconds. Playback rate is 25 frames per second. I’ve slightly zoomed in and I layed a green filter over the video to remove the maximum of the pink light.

• Test Of My Led Growing Light

  Alain Mauer • 01/14/2018 at 15:32 • 0 comments

  This will be my first attempt to check if my growing light works. I use coir pellets witch provide a lot of substrate and as seed I use salad burnet herb. I took these seeds because of there size.

  A small plastic Tupperware will work as a peel for my vegetables. With the addition of water, the pellets swell up. I press the earth over the seeds and put the whole thing under the light. Now I have to wait if it works or not. I also added a thermometer to check if it’s not to cold in my workshop.

  Crossing fingers.

• The First Led Plant Grow Light Is Ready

  Alain Mauer • 01/06/2018 at 14:16 • 7 comments

  I just finished the first of the twenty grow lights.

  Works great and as I calculated, it takes at 12V DC 200mA.

• The Led's are here. Let's build something to make the soldering easier

  Alain Mauer • 01/05/2018 at 18:28 • 0 comments

  I use my laser cutter to build a mask that will hold the Led's in place to make the soldering easier.

• 5 Days later, look what came with DHL

  Alain Mauer • 12/23/2017 at 21:13 • 0 comments

  I used www.pcbway.com to  make the boards and here is the result, 25 nice white PCB's

• Design the PCB with Diptrace

  Alain Mauer • 12/23/2017 at 21:06 • 0 comments

  Here is the Schematic and the PCB design, It's made with Diptrace

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