churchhaze
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Sorry, yeah that's true. I was definitely exaggerating, but 200 PARW in 16sqft would be 12.5 PARW/sqft, which is greater than the intensity I'm using in my 240W vero 18 tent, and I honestly think I yielded over a pound on that grow. (ended up almost filling a medium sized amazon box about 14" long x 10" wide, 8" tall)I don't agree with that...and either do the numbers. We are looking at ~200PARwatts from either of his design. A design that is only 8"wide. 1000hps doing 360-400PARwatts. And a massive reflector(32"x41") to make photons come from pretty close to directly above the edge of the canopy...instead of having to make it through the main canopy at an angle to the edge like led would have to in a narrow design. Even if we count it with major reflector losses...1K's are still getting ~280-300PARwatts to the canopy. But vertguys will not be dealing with that so either should we in comparisons of tech.
Are RS's panels technically the most efficient light when looking at strictly components...yes. But total output is not where it needs to be imo for a 1 for 1 switch. As a whole unit I don't think it will quite hang with a standard 1k, and then think about DE. Do we think that 400w of LED produce 2-3lbs??? I don't. I know 6 grower personally getting 2.5-3 per light in their gavita rooms. No matter how into led's I am...I don't ever try and tell them what to use. Until I hit the 2lb club with an LED...I just do what I do and if people like it then great. So until people start smashing hps total yields regularly and from multiple people... I don't think we should start thinking about <600w led's as 1K hps replacers.
RS plans to run 2 panels per 4x4...he knows what's up.
I guess part of the reason I thought it would be a good comparison is skewed by the fact that less intensity was used with LED. Had I used the same intensity of HPS, g/W would have gone down, but yield up. So yeah, probably a bad comparison.
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