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And now for something completely different – a biltong box
Another year is close to its end, with the Christmas and New Year / Festive Season upon us. As [...]
Quantifying light output
The third post in the series - on quantifying light output - and at last an answer to the [...]
Light output – lumen, lux and the candle
Imagine that! The SI base unit of luminous intensity (read: light output) - candela - is based on the [...]
How to measure light output – the question
The question seemed so simple... How to measure light output from an LED grow lamp? A lamp radiates energy, [...]
uSolaire 180 grow lamp comparison
What better way to understand how the uSolaire 180 performs than to do a head-to-head grow lamp comparison... So [...]
uSolaire 180: LED grow lamp completed
As eluded to in a previous post, the next project on the books is an LED grow lamp. I've [...]
Reflow oven wiring diagram
So on a lazy Saturday afternoon without anything else to do, and to complete the 'build', here is the [...]
uSolaire 180 prototype
While making a reflow oven was fun and resulted in a good addition to the toolset available, the real [...]
