About early to mid 2015 I found Growmau5’s youtube.
It was others on forums and him that showed me what was really possible with LED using higher efficiency more advanced models custom built.
For at least a year I spent all kinds of time planning how I was going to build my custom cob setup.
I think I built one of the first custom fixtures with the QB120.
It was so simple and impressive. I got a reputation for helping people build custom setups with these boards.
Now I have a reputation for it and typically I’m helping at least 3-4 people by DM planning their setup.
I helped a member on GC in 2017 build a custom setup and he ended up using the knowledge to form his own lighting company in the UK. It’s called invisible sun. They make a similar product to HLG. They thanked me and told me I inspired them to form the company so I get free boards for life.
They’ve already sent me 6 now. I was able to replace all my veg boards with v2 samsung 301b diodes and replace one of my qb260 kits with two of their 288 boards.