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That ts3000 looks like one nasty piece of engineering. From the weak plug to the metal sides coming down trapping heat from the diodes..Well the end result was horrible, they sent a replacement ts 3000 they put together with old used parts.
The quantum boards don't put out the same lux as the old ones and they put the wrong drivers on it without the dimmer option.
We live in a small town in Arizona. Winslow had a commercial grow come in for medical about 6 years ago. The dispensary wasn't the greatest but it was all the medicinal patients had. 3 years ago they closed the dispensary and moved it to Phoenix for greed.
At that time we got a cultivators license to grow. The newest dispensary is 120 mile round trip for medical card holders. The median income in this town is $17,600 single and $36,000 household. The 578 card holders can not afford to drive 120 miles. Some are elderly and can't drive at all.
We decided to grow at a cost of what my wife's medicine was costing us. All excess we grow is donated to other card holders. Hell my job is Department of Transportation regulated, I can't even partake in a toke.
Mars Hydro customer service led us on to believe they were taking care of us with the parts. They delayed our flip to flower 2 months and still screwed us over. Which is now screwing over the medical card holders that depended on us.
If they were honest and just told us, we would have sourced a new light right away.
So in our opinion, be careful in who you buy lights from. Have back up lights on hand capable of flowering your grow.
I ended up making a 240 watt out of all the parts and I kept the 150 watt they sent even though the requested it back. So I didnt get the full 480 watts of light we had but it was enough to flip to flower.
Going forward were going to try out new spider farmer, vivosun and kingbrite. Probably 3-4 months of saving before we get a replacement.
So if you read this and are looking for a light, I would look at another company.
Spider farmer gives a light away almost every month and has 20% off right now on their lights.
#Spiderfarmersf4000
I'll post some picks of the hack job Idid on the ts3000 to make it a 240 watt.
I'm about to try the newer model spiderfarmer sf4000 myself here in the next week or so, I just need to get the tent setup first. So far it seems like a very well built light with a very unique diode layout.
Mean Well XLG-240 drivers
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