Dirtbag
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Okay gang, this will be the new diary.
It's been a good 6 months since I've done a proper grow in the shed and it's time to get next year's personal stash going.
Ill start this off by going over some of the recent upgrades to the growroom, aka the Crystal palace. The shed has been freshly modified with the addition of 2 of Spiderfarmer grow lights, the SF4000 and the SE5000.
It has always been somewhat underlit in here at 31w/sqft with just 2 HID. Now we have 34w/sqft under the LED drawing about 480w each, and 41w/sqft under the HID running at 750w each. That is a significant improvement.
Very excited to see how these all play together. A bit nervous about heat, but thankfully my ventilation system is pretty potent.
All 4 lights are hung independently and can be adjusted for height from the door to the room. I suspect I'll have to play around with this a bit.
One very nice feature of the SE5000 is the removable driver/dimmer. Allows me to mount it near the room entrance. Which is the reason I had to mount the SF4000 up front, so that I could reach it's dimmer once the room is full of plants. This would be an excellent choice for tent growing where heat could be kept way down, especially with the efficiently vented bar lights. But also handy for me to be able to operate when the room is so full of plants that I can't get to the lights.
Where do these trippers go? I swear they just disappear. I'll need to get a replacement set before I can run the LED since they're gonna be on their own 120V intermatic timer on a dedicated 20 Amp circuit.
It's been a good 6 months since I've done a proper grow in the shed and it's time to get next year's personal stash going.
Ill start this off by going over some of the recent upgrades to the growroom, aka the Crystal palace. The shed has been freshly modified with the addition of 2 of Spiderfarmer grow lights, the SF4000 and the SE5000.
It has always been somewhat underlit in here at 31w/sqft with just 2 HID. Now we have 34w/sqft under the LED drawing about 480w each, and 41w/sqft under the HID running at 750w each. That is a significant improvement.
Very excited to see how these all play together. A bit nervous about heat, but thankfully my ventilation system is pretty potent.
All 4 lights are hung independently and can be adjusted for height from the door to the room. I suspect I'll have to play around with this a bit.
One very nice feature of the SE5000 is the removable driver/dimmer. Allows me to mount it near the room entrance. Which is the reason I had to mount the SF4000 up front, so that I could reach it's dimmer once the room is full of plants. This would be an excellent choice for tent growing where heat could be kept way down, especially with the efficiently vented bar lights. But also handy for me to be able to operate when the room is so full of plants that I can't get to the lights.
Where do these trippers go? I swear they just disappear. I'll need to get a replacement set before I can run the LED since they're gonna be on their own 120V intermatic timer on a dedicated 20 Amp circuit.
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