Mr.jiujitsu
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I just bought another 240w kingbrite unit. I honestly wouldn't waste watts or money on all that cree, uv and ir stuff.. lm301b/h LEDs put out more light per watt than any of those. IR and UV leds are notoriously over priced, under powered and last less than half the time of normal LEDs.
I just stick with the 3000k straight up. No red, uv, it or cree BS. Just a waste of money and watts. If you want to supplement your spectrum, use other bulbs/tubes to do it. They are cheaper, they last longer, they put out way more light, and when they burn out, you just replace a 20 or 30 dollar bulb/tube, not the entire fixture.
IMO every watt not spent on lm301 LEDs is a watt wasted, at almost 2 times the light output of other LEDs.
Just the way I look at it. The amount other stuff those ir uv and red LEDs add is almost nothing. You're paying a lot more for them, they dont last as long and they are eating up wattage that is better spent on more light.
Since adding red supplimentals to my other sets I have seen a positive change, but thatās always subjective. Iām with you on everything else the IR and UV is useless. I ran over a year with no reds and trying a number of
Mixed spectrums by mixing boards. So far my best results have included, but these reds that I posted are in fact not the same as the Samsung strips I posted about previously. Nor are they the mix, but I paid even less than whatās advertised and I couldnāt find a better deal at the time. I am currently running over 25 quantum boards, some havenāt been turned off except for major power losses in over a year. @BigCube is dead on the money, if you are not running lm301ās your wasting money