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Anybody else? Why? I feel like the explosion in popularity of LED is directly linked to rapid legalization and the accompanying explosion of tent growers who cant realistically run HID. From my perspective I dont get it for the following reasons.
As LED has evolved and improved they're really closing in on the range of wattage and heat output of HID. I live in a state with low KWH prices, less than half the price of many states. If I lived in Hawaii my potential savings would be almost quadrupled and it would be a no brainer but roughly half the states pay similar electricity costs as I do.
Color Spectrum. I'm not saying LED growers aren't producing fantastic results, but what the hell happened here? For decades it was not even open for debate that the blue spectrum MH was the only way to go in veg and likewise for red spectrum giving best flower results. Was this debunked or what? Just about every LED I see just indicates "full spectrum", not even specifying a Kelvin #. I cant help but feel like this is just splitting the difference and compromising what we had once established as ideal.
Sometimes I feel like the last guy to give into the new fangled cellular devices because my land line works just fine. I just feel like other than folks limited by a tent grow or outrageous power costs, etc; LED unnecessarily became the default. What am I missing? Learn me please!
As LED has evolved and improved they're really closing in on the range of wattage and heat output of HID. I live in a state with low KWH prices, less than half the price of many states. If I lived in Hawaii my potential savings would be almost quadrupled and it would be a no brainer but roughly half the states pay similar electricity costs as I do.
Color Spectrum. I'm not saying LED growers aren't producing fantastic results, but what the hell happened here? For decades it was not even open for debate that the blue spectrum MH was the only way to go in veg and likewise for red spectrum giving best flower results. Was this debunked or what? Just about every LED I see just indicates "full spectrum", not even specifying a Kelvin #. I cant help but feel like this is just splitting the difference and compromising what we had once established as ideal.
Sometimes I feel like the last guy to give into the new fangled cellular devices because my land line works just fine. I just feel like other than folks limited by a tent grow or outrageous power costs, etc; LED unnecessarily became the default. What am I missing? Learn me please!