Input From Led Growers Wanted:

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MW7945

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Yeah, growmau5 has a ton of videos on the subject.

Yield aside, the heat production and power draw are light years apart. It's expensive to power and cool bulbs
 
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DiatomaceousE

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Plus alot of these "3 pounds per 1000w" light dudes are actually using 1200w double endeds and using 50% more in a/c, so if you factor in all their power usage it goes down to closer to 2 per light, thats why i love the cold mointain air, free a/c, would hate to geow somewhere like LA.
 
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DiatomaceousE

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True but grow at 9000 ft and you would need to add heaters to get decent VPD...keeping it locked in at 80/70 is the real key to crushing yields without bud rot.
 
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I just started growing but it's been a pretty mild summer. This winter will be sort of nice.

Aside from the humidity dropping down to next to nothing. Had a hard enough time keeping it above 50% this summer
 
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DiatomaceousE

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Yeah growth is amazing at 70% humidity heard even more crazy at 80%, i just was rocking 75/70 and it was going nuts but got hit with budrot for the first time in 15 years so now its at 50 until i get all the infected plants down in my perptetual room, got to be careful to keep the temps at 80, already pulled down a bunch early.

why its nice not to run perpetual and keep the humidity down once the buds stack on.
 
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But getting back to the subject some good options would be to add 3 cmh 315w and have two rows of lights like:

LED - CMH - LED
CMH - LED - CMH

This would give a nice blended spectrum all over, just make sure to keep the end rows spread out to make sure the corners get good light.

Or even cooler would be to add 2 600w hps airecooled would be a nice inexpensive option for a nice blended spectrum.
 
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lbristol said:
I read that PAR matters more than actual wattage. If that's the case it makes sense as the ViparSpectra models are rated with a PAR equivalent to their wattage equivalency and have been tested accurately. The 400w model is ~400 PAR. By all accounts the King Plus LEDs are nowhere near their rated capacity ... In fact I cannot even find data on it. Decided I'm sending all 3 back to amazon and purchasing four 600w ViparSpectra units with the PAR rated at ~600 each. This is with the light at 24". Should give me the equivalency of 75w/sqft in my 4x8 enclosure.

Thoughts?
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I still think u may need more but that would be a step in the right direction.

Get the runnable series that run a lil extra $$
 
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CBDfutute4 said:
I know the Advanced Platinum series P450 would be a solid choice if budget allowed too
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If there's one light on the market that's overpriced as fuk, it's those. For that money you can buy a solid cob light.
 
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MW7945, could you help me size a cxb3590 build for a 4x8 tent? I figure if I put five of them on a 10x24" heatsink im looking at 250w of power per light. If I hang a total of six of them width wise every couple feet or so I'm looking at 1500 total watts or 46.8w/sqft. If I hang eight I'm at 2000w or 62.5w/sqft. I'm more comfortable with the upper number.

But .... I'm looking at eight heat sinks, at 82 dollars a piece ... over $650 plus shipping. Fourty-five lights at $28 a piece and I'm at $1260 ... total of $1910 before the rest of the stuff...

Am I going overboard? What would you do in this space if you couldn't use HPS or MH due to heat concerns? Its important i have a high yield.
 
MW7945

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Don't use the 10x24 heat sinks. I'll look in a little bit, but a few of them are significantly cheaper than the rest.
 
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The 4.850 ones are the best price. So just get those and run them longer

Using Vero29 will save you a significant amount of money as well. They're like 10-15 cheaper a chip.

CXB3590 have 160 lumen/w while Vero29 have 155 lumen/w. A lot of money extra for not a lot of extra output
 
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Personally, I'd run 4 100w Vero29's on a 36" heatsink. and run either 4 or 5 of them in the tent. 4 of them puts you exactly at 50w per sq ft. 5 would put you at 62.5

I don't see a need to go over 50 sq/ft personally.

Would put you at 3.5lbs+
 
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MW7945 said:
Personally, I'd run 4 100w Vero29's on a 36" heatsink. and run either 4 or 5 of them in the tent. 4 of them puts you exactly at 50w per sq ft. 5 would put you at 62.5

I don't see a need to go over 50 sq/ft personally.

Would put you at 3.5lbs+
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Is that passively cooled or will I need to add fans? How many fans per heat sink?
 
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Most people will run it passively cooled, but you could add fans if you really wanted. As far as the drivers, that's where I'm not as much help.

I will say I'd definitely opt for a meanwell drivers for sure. And Wago connectors. Will make everything solderless.

I would think you'd want to run a HLG-320H series or something similar as far as the driver. Again, I'd double check that with someone that knows more than I do.

Again, his videos are long but growmau5 on youtube should have videos that can get you from start to finish
 
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MW7945 said:
Most people will run it passively cooled, but you could add fans if you really wanted. As far as the drivers, that's where I'm not as much help.

I will say I'd definitely opt for a meanwell drivers for sure. And Wago connectors. Will make everything solderless.

I would think you'd want to run a HLG-320H series or something similar as far as the driver. Again, I'd double check that with someone that knows more than I do.

Again, his videos are long but growmau5 on youtube should have videos that can get you from start to finish
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Great. Thanks for all of your expertise. Last question: Can I mix two Vero29 x 3000k and 2 x 3500k on the same driver, granted they have the same exact specs otherwise?
 
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