Haha, who would have guessed you were accompanied with a cat ?!
Aluminum wires cannot actually be used in the country I live in (applies only to newly built houses). Dunno if it applies to the whole EU. The reason is that alu wires tend to loose/even "crack" from screw terminals. This causes high contact resistance which can lead to malfunction and even a fire.
It'd be 139W/m^2 or 13W/ft^2. It's not very much. I'd suggest to at least double it.
Nah, 60x60cm is roughly 4 sqft.
Yes, 30x30cm is 900 cm^2 which is almost 1 sqft.
I don't know which grow your basing this off, as I haven't seen much activity from him lately. Maybe he moved into a different forum category
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I appreciate the response my friend. I'm not sure why I didn't catch it earlier. Thanks again.
Yeah, the same one, where he harvested 0.5g/pW...I don't know which grow your basing this off, as I haven't seen much activity from him lately. Maybe he moved into a different forum category
I do recall the one he had a few months ago, which I followed and learned A BUNCH from. The only issue I now see with that setup of his was that he used no reflectors or lenses, so the Vero 18 COBs were emitting at the standard 120 degrees (not ideal for growing in my book), and the COBs were many feet away from the canopies. I don't believe he was running his COBs very hard either, like 1400mA I wanna guess? (So each COB was emitting ~38W)
Anyways, the whole watts per square feet/yard/meter deal is fine and dandy but the grower has to take into account that we're living in a three dimensional world, where volume, not area, takes prominent precedence among the things that what we do. That being said, you could have 100W/ft.^2 but if the light(s) is/are 4 feet above canopy, your going to have poor results - atleast in his scenario.
I could be off my rocker with this claim but I'm just using my newly found experience with the VERO 18 series. Feel free to correct me or add to the conversation if you like.
I'm running my VERO 18's at ~1050mA and I've had them as far away as 3" from canopy. This, unfortunately, presented a little bleaching on the tips of two heads. I spaced out the COBS and the tallest heads to around 5" afterwards and never again had any bleaching issues.Yeah, the same one, where he harvested 0.5g/pW...
So yeah, running them 1.4 needs some high, but same as hps, needs to be little higher... it's cool...
I believe in V29, so i think they will grow successfull weed for me, hope better than 70WHPS + CFL's
It doesn't really have to do with the height of the lights. He was I a very reflective environment and they weren't that high. You touched on the volume aspect but not the right factor(s). His yield(not problem) came from his plant size. They were short and no matter how good the tops were their was little to nothing underneath.I don't know which grow your basing this off, as I haven't seen much activity from him lately. Maybe he moved into a different forum category
I do recall the one he had a few months ago, which I followed and learned A BUNCH from. The only issue I now see with that setup of his was that he used no reflectors or lenses, so the Vero 18 COBs were emitting at the standard 120 degrees (not ideal for growing in my book), and the COBs were many feet away from the canopies. I don't believe he was running his COBs very hard either, like 1400mA I wanna guess? (So each COB was emitting ~38W)
Anyways, the whole watts per square feet/yard/meter deal is fine and dandy but the grower has to take into account that we're living in a three dimensional world, where volume, not area, takes prominent precedence among the things that what we do. That being said, you could have 100W/ft.^2 but if the light(s) is/are 4 feet above canopy, your going to have poor results - atleast in his scenario.
I could be off my rocker with this claim but I'm just using my newly found experience with the VERO 18 series. Feel free to correct me or add to the conversation if you like.
I agree with you that there are multiple exceptions on growing your plant to it's fullest potential. I've mounted lights to the ceiling (~10FT) before and I've had lights on chains/strings draped down closer to the canopy (Within 2FT from seedling/plant). Without factoring quality of LEDs and quantity, such as W/ft/^2, it's clear that bringing the light source TO your plant is much more lucrative than having your plant reaching for the ceiling (I'm sure your on the same page with me on that one).
