I picked up a couple of these yesterday on the way to pick up wifey and head to Good Friday service (my 1st time at one of these at a Catholic church) :
These actually look pretty good for the $$, with decent heat sinking, a long (10 ft.) power cord, and hanging accessories. They are pretty bright, too! Unfortunately, like so many products from China, they’ve “skimped” by (in this case) not even bothering to put any heat sink grease between the back of the LED board and the heat sink! Often the problem is a perfunctory smear of grease that only provides about 10% contact, or is misplaced entirely, but, nope, in this case they didn’t bother with ANY.
Granted that heat sink grease is a bit pricey, but geez!
It’s no wonder so many LED lights fail early.
I still have some heat sink grease, somewhere......
I may Dremel / cut out the front diffusor too, to get a bit more directed light, at the expense of the (likely useless) warranty.
Been working on the wiring in the tunnel and doing it more properly than last Fall when I was winging it and figuring things out.
Whittled down and reconfigured the drip for the tunnel. The drip stuff will be on it's third configuration this time. Just need a 50' roll of the brown drip emitter tubing to do the 3rd of the three inner beds. Menard's has them for $10/ea. Then later on after I finish the tunnel, two more rolls for the outer beds.
Got the travel trailer cleaned up a little which gives me room to take a bunch of stuff from shed and put in there. Gonna finish organizing the shed today/tomorrow. Guess I'll bring a space heater with me and aim it at me. Gotta tidy up the side that has a wall of shelves but currently has a bunch of stuff on one floor in front of them. Cleaned up the other side yesterday.
The AG research center up the road from me says they got 1.37" of rain so far today. http://agebb.missouri.edu/weather/realtime/cookstation.php. They've had an inch of rain before when I got none though and visa versa.
Need to get my bucket rain gauge set back up. Had it up by the house but it's going down by the tunnel now like all the weather sensors. Post hole for it is already dug(and probably full of water). Will have to dig a little trench from it to the tunnel for the cable. Can't put any weather sensors too close to the tunnel because the wind hitting, going over and coming back down the tunnel will have an effect, whether it's wind direction or speed or even rain.
Wind sensor will have to go further away. Think it's going underneath the guy wire for the electric pole. Ought to be safe there and the pole shouldn't mess with the reading too much as far as blocking wind.
Most of my seeds have sprouted. A few things haven't done anything but some of the seeds were sold for the 2020 season so they're 5 years old. Could still pop up though.