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The SF1000 is definitely a big step up from my blurples, both on efficiency and spectrum.
Can’t compare them to other products with the Samsung diodes, maybe some day.
What a freakin' gal!My wife ended up ordering me a 100watt hlg for an early Christmas present. It should be here tomorrow or the following day.
So I guess I will be able to retire my blurples and compare the sf1000 to a more worthy competitor after all.
Thinking of running the hlg on the left, spider farmer on the right and a 150 watt hps in the center.
What a freakin' gal!
I dunno how hot a 150w HID runs, but I would be a little concerned about it running the adjacent LEDs too hot... might kill your lifespan on them by a good bit.
Yeah, I just recall running them next to a 400W HPS.. even with air cooling, I believe it led to the early demise of a couple of blurple lamps I had at the time. Literally had speckled diodes that were blown on the side closest to the HPS on two different lamps.Hmm I will keep that in mind and make sure their is enough distance. I think my blurples run almost as hot as that little hps though.
Yeah, I just recall running them next to a 400W HPS.. even with air cooling, I believe it led to the early demise of a couple of blurple lamps I had at the time. Literally had speckled diodes that were blown on the side closest to the HPS on two different lamps.
I've never witnessed the heat output from a 150W... I guess it would basically be close to a 100W filament incandescent... so probably nothing to cause alarm.
I don't recall even precisely measuring at the time. But, tapping into my memory bank, I'd say about a foot.. most likely under. In a 2' x 4' tent.What was the distance between the blurples and the 400 watt?
On 100% power my sf1000 did about 26,000 lux at 18 inchesThe rest of the plants are still not showing sex fully, but a lot of them seem to be leaning towards male. I just have to wait and hope they prove me wrong. Besides this one dozimac that does not seem as happy, that one I am hoping for male so I don't have to troubleshoot why its mad all the time.
Ran into some delays on the hlg 100, but as soon as it comes I will do some lux comparison on my phone between it and the SF1000 and share them with the farm.
25,907 lux to be exact at 18 inchesThe rest of the plants are still not showing sex fully, but a lot of them seem to be leaning towards male. I just have to wait and hope they prove me wrong. Besides this one dozimac that does not seem as happy, that one I am hoping for male so I don't have to troubleshoot why its mad all the time.
Ran into some delays on the hlg 100, but as soon as it comes I will do some lux comparison on my phone between it and the SF1000 and share them with the farm.
Man you and me bothJust waiting to find some more females
Ok so the hlg 100 came today and I hooked it up in the layout I described earlier.
Here are my observations ans comparisons so far.
Spectrum
I have the 3000k version. As you can see in the picture the hlg seems to have one warmish white diode. The spider farmer has alternating warm and cool white diodes and it has those red or far red supplements.
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Brightness
At 16-18 inches the spider farmer reported 26206 lux and the hlg reported 29729 lux. Keep in mind it was very difficult to get an accurate distance with them mounted so high and treat these as ballpark numbers.
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Features and customer experience
The hlg doesn’t has a dimmer, but it can be dimmed using a screwdriver on the driver so spider farmer is easier to dim. The spider farmer came with a manual and came preassembled. The hlg had no manual and required some minimal assembly to screw the driver onto the light if you choose to mount it that way.
And I am stoked to make use of my little hps aswell
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I can confirm its quality for food, supplement, and cosmetic grade.I have used raw fresh aloe for cloning before with success, but I don't have any growing right now so I am going to give this stuff a try
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VGCJ4I/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I can confirm its quality for food, supplement, and cosmetic grade.
Definitely a high grade and potent aloe.
Dang, that's a steal for the volume.Nice I guessed lucked out, I picked it because it was $3.77
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