How to Make Your Own Top Quality Led Grow Light Part - 1 What You Will Need.

How to make your own top quality Led Grow Light Part - 1
What You Will Need.

Have you ever thought about making your own led grow light? Maybe you want to save some money, create a light with a custom spectrum or just have the pleasure of growing with a light you have designed and built!
This series of videos will show you how to make your own high quality led grow light at home at minimum cost and with equipment you either have or can buy for just a few €$£.

Total Cost is only €107.95 $120.00 or £93.00!

The finished light will have a LED POWER of 75 to 80 watts which is ideal for a 50x50cm grow tent and of course you can make 4 to cover a 100x100cm tent.

It will be very high quality with Osram Oslon leds and a Mean Well power supply. DONT worry that the leds I have recommended have different beam angles, it will make no difference in use.

Spectrum is 5 Red/Hyper Red to 1 Royal Blue to 1 4000K White which will result in a rde/blue ratio of about 5.5:1 which is a good all round spectrum which will work well for both vegging and flowering. Feel Free to change it if you want, thats the fun of making your own light!

In this video will will cover the parts you need to make your light.

Choosing Leds and MCPCB´s
Tweezers and possibly Reading Glasses (the leds are small!)
Solder paste and applicators
Heat Sink Compound
Power Supplies
Aluminium Plate (putting it all together)


The following videos will show you how to put it all together (including DIY reflow soldering at home!) and how to use your new skills to repair broken led grow lights by replacing faulty leds!

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BOM (Bill Of Materials)


Tools and Sundries

You will also need:
4 X 4mm or 5mm ring bolts and 4X locking nuts to fit them
Wrench or pliers to fit the nuts above.
soldering iron
lead/tin flux core solder (1mm) to solder WIRES onto the circuit boards.
small wire cutters
small screws (18) to fit the circuit boards)
small screwdriver to fit the small screws.
1mm drill or sharp thin nail.

Aluminium Pan €5.50 Purchased locally.

You can get the solder paste, heat sink compound (thermal paste) and tweezers at lots of places including ebay and Aliexpress. DO NOT get any lead free solder, its hard to work with and has inferior qualities.

Mechanic brand solder paste €3.00 ($3.32) incl. Postage.
https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10053815/9656872-hk-mechanic-xg-50-soldering-flux-paste-soldering

Heatsink Compound (thermal grease) Halnziye HY710 20 grams ($1.69) £1.32 €1.54
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20g-Silver-Thermal-Grease-Paste-Compound-Chipset-Cooling-For-CPU-GPU-HY710/182367105163?hash=item2a75ed308b:g:vgEAAOSwux5YOVYP#rwid

Tweezers Vetus ESD-11 €1.18 ($1.37)
https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10005391/1464708-vetus-esd-11-stainless-steel-straight-tweezers

Connectors - Wago 221 Terminal Block Connector, 2 WayTerminals, 24 → 12 AWG Cable Mount
RS Part number 883-7544 £3.91 (€4.55) for 10 You only need 4
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/non-fused-terminal-blocks/8837544/

Wire and Plugs

Wire - Hew Heinz Eilentropp Blue, 0.26 mm² Hook Up Wire 5m £2.81 (€3.27)
This is silicon sheathed so is very flexible and its hard to accidentally melt is with the soldering iron.
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hookup-equipment-wire/2224163/

Power cable and plug (bought locally)


Leds and MCPCB´s:

Red 630nm - Osram OSLON SSL 80 GR CS8PM1.23-JUKQ-1-0 €1.04 (£0.89)
Buy 15 (3X Pack of 5)
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/leds/1263155/

Hyper Red 660nm Osram Opto OSLON SSL 120 GH CSSPM1.24-4T2U-1-0 (£0.93)
Buy 15 (3X Pack of 5)
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/leds/1263154/

Royal Blue 445nm Osram OSLON SSL 150 LD CQDP-2U3U-W5-1 £0.64 (€0.75)
Buy 6 (3X pack of 2)
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/leds/7587787/


White leds Osram Opto OSLON SSL 150 GW CSHPM1.EM £0.43 (€0.50)
Buy 10 (2 packs of 5)
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/leds/8769372/

Osram Oslon 7 led MCPCB €2.40 Buy 6
https://www.led-mounting-bases.com/en/led-mcpcb/303-d40-mcpcb-for-7-leds-osram-oslon-serie-ledil-led-lens-compatible.html

Power Supply

Power Supply 90 Watts Mean well HLG-80H-C700 (this is the dimmable version) £36 (€42)
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/led-drivers/7717761/

This is the non-dimmable version €39 (£33.50)
https://www.tme.eu/es/en/details/hlg-80h-c700a/led-power-supplies/mean-well/

TOTAL COST €107.95 or £93.00