EventHorizan
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I like your setup!Here's the thing about COBs in COB frames: I can put up to 5 COBs on one RapidLED frame that's 45" long, I can then put as many frames as I want that will fit in a tent. I can then raise and lower each frame as needed depending on the heights of the plants across the tent. If you're doing a scrog, it won't really matter, but I'm just growing individual plants that grow in height differently so it's nice to adjust the heights of the individual frames. My current configuration is 6 rows of 3 COBs which are currently not all at the same height };-)
I like your setup!
When you gonna start scrogging???
:)
probably never, I like 4 or 5 foot tall plants...
yeah, AI is very citrus smelling, my AI is doing good, but my Canuck Blueberry is even bigger/better.Off topic but I gotta ask, how's the Aurora going? That's what I'm doing for my first grow and thus far everything seems to be going pretty damn good (5 1/2 weeks into to flower). Smells like straight fruity pebbles right now
Looks good as far as specs go. As with everything tho, specs can be falsified to make the sale. That 50,000 to 100,000 service hours I have to call BS on.
We put way too much faith and importance in product specs I think. Cause at the end of the day mfgr's can put any specs they want on a package and who is the wiser if they are lying? There aint no spec police to keep em honest.The fact the kind " name brand" light doesn't even list any specs tells me it's worse. If it's listed than technically it has to do the listed spec or it be false advertising. By not listing they aren't lying." Perfect spectrum" is how kind has it listed. Perfect for what though? I'm sure it's perfect for something like maybe a book light. My past I've always seen halide for veg hps for bloom. That was standard. But the new wave is led. And maybe there is flaws especially at this stage. They are all rolling dice at this point until they actually get the technology mastered. I just don't personally see the difference in end results to back the more expensive ones.
We put way too much faith and importance in product specs I think. Cause at the end of the day mfgr's can put any specs they want on a package and who is the wiser if they are lying? There aint no spec police to keep em honest.
I live by this and it has served me well. " if it sounds too good to be true it usually is"
yeah, AI is very citrus smelling, my AI is doing good, but my Canuck Blueberry is even bigger/better.
my last crop IA was very good and potent, you'll like it
Yeah I built a medical grow warehouse here and they won't consider using leds at all. So that by itself has to mean something. They use strictly green t8 for backlights and gravita labs hps. And lec ceramic lights the 630s. I can't remember brand but is related to Phillips. I haven't seen any of their work it's like Fort Knox there. They built the space but don't have the green light to operate it yet so no plants there yet.Looks good as far as specs go. As with everything tho, specs can be falsified to make the sale. That 50,000 to 100,000 service hours I have to call BS on.
Until the industry gets its thermal management system down with the boards I doubt anything will last that long.
But I have been wrong before. We shall see, leds for horticulture are still in its infancy stages.
It will be interesting to see how long these lights truly last once the bigger commercial greenhouses start approaching the advertised life times.
How was the blueberry. I have two of those freebies (Canuck blueberry). I might fit them in a grow but it is not very strong.
If I can get .6g/watt from my 350 watt draw, I will be very happy.With my cheap mars 48 reflector that draws 100 watts from the wall i got 62 grams on my first go round. It was life changing.
So, I got a 300W HiGrow LED from Amazon this spring. I used it to sprout seedlings, growing them to about 10 inches underneath it, before moving them outside. The seedlings did well, with good color, growth, and no stretching. This was on the veg setting of the light. This light cost me $89.
I'm about to pull the trigger on this light: https://www.amazon.com/HIGROW-Optical-Spectrum-Greenhouse-Hydroponic/dp/B01HYUO9VY for a closet grow over the winter. It'll be a one or two plant DWC SCROG setup. It's about $159.
I have seen a lot of discussion here that poo-poos the cheaper lights available on Amazon, such as the one above. I am trying to reconcile that with the dozens of five star reviews on Amazon. Can someone explain why these lights are hated here, yet loved by their purchasers? Who is wrong, and why?
$89 is half of a 1000w digital ballast with hood or cool tube with huge hood, dimmable, with both a mh and hps bulb. This is why i hate cheap leds. You can grow 3 pounds every 60 days for $200 of hid light. or grow some 10 inch seedlings or a baby tent with a light that'll break randomly in your first or second year.It's right there!
Wattage 600W.
Avg. Power Draw: 250±3% watt
Also how does it manage to do core coverage of 3x3 with a rectangular shape?
Way to many false claims.
If I can get .6g/watt from my 350 watt draw, I will be very happy.
Yeah, but it's not unheard of at all to pull 1.5-2g/w with a CXB3590 though
I'd really like to see a side-by-side grow of CXB3590 and Vero29's both at 3500K. They seem to have very close output and Vero's are about $10 cheaper.
How far in are you?
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