Texas Kid said:
Kind of like saying your Prius is faster than a Sorento when everyone else in the race has a Corvette....
2lbs dried from a 1000w HID ($210.00 complete cost) and 4 plants, lets see it, there's the flower room challenge right there.
This is amusing.
I think there is considerable problems with using a LED for any sort of commercial/larger-scale grow. The economics and light coverage, given the all the other considerations, simply rule out LED's as a competetive choice.
I still think LED's have a - pardon the pun - bright future - but for the time being it's hard to say they'd be more effective than HID's for lots of growers.
I'll be into these things as soon as the price comes down 150% or so. (And that isn't a joke - give it a few years).
Texas Kid said:
Kind of like saying your Prius is faster than a Sorento when everyone else in the race has a Corvette....
This analogy runs even deeper, IMO. The Corvette is a brutish thing, with a giant, thirsty engine that wastes huge portions of the energy that goes into it.
Kind of like a HID.
While a Prius is an efficient little thing which makes excellent (well, by comparison to the Vette) use of the energy that goes into it - carefully modulating the vehicle to maximize resources.
Kind of like an LED.
If the only thing that matters is "winning the race," then I suppose the Vette would be a better choice. Perhaps one only needs to cruise at 65mph though? How about then?
So where might the Prius be in a few years?
How about LED's?