You’re gonna need to invest in some bamboo stakes flinging all those photons lol!
Roughly $1 per watt. If you can find two qb 120’s for a reasonable price and don’t need dimming maybe cheaper. Problem is the only place you can ever find them is on amazon and they’re only available in a 4 pack. Arrow was running 15% off if it’s your first order, and 3500k strips were reasonably priced there. The benefit of the boards would be no real cost in building frame or getting a thermal bed.
Check to s e what pricing is at arrow on the eb gen2 and Samsung f series strips. The f series were like $12 for 560mm. You can use pretty much any length in that size tent, but would favor 280mm or 1120mm. The Samsung would be better with a heatsink, but you wouldn’t need as many of them. So we’d have to see exactly how the driver and other material costs line up.
If you decide on the Samsung’s heatsinkusa dot com has a .60" heatsink that @Aolelon suggested to me. They work really well. They are slightly skinnier than the strip but dissipate the heat well. And are priced cheap enough that they are on the same playing field with plate aluminum for the EB strips.
Digikey is probably the easiest when you put a specific part number into the search bar. Open up data sheet for leds you’re looking at and copy paste part number from there.
Didn’t mean to lol. If you’re using browse function there it really sucks. But once you get to the actual part they do a good job.
If you’re looking for watts, multiply volts and amps. If you go with f series would like 1050ma from meanwell. So 560mm double row would be in the 45-50 watt per strip range. Single row like 23-25 watts per strip.
If you go bridgelux on plate figure 700ma. So 560mm strip would be like 14ish watts.
GNO gotta love that. Maybe she’ll come home and reward you for the night out lol. Thanks for all the help my friend. Without your advice I wouldn’t be harvesting moon rocks.