This is EXACTLY my line of thinking? I run a few gavita 6/750 's for a little over a year now. Now this cob diy comes along and iam considering getting into them. I just know absolutely nothing about them. All these numbers and drivers and shit. Its confusing as hell. I been growing for a very long time....i feel like a rookie with this cob lighting. Is it worth it? How much money and time and tools and shit? I want to grow dope not build space age new lights.
I invite you to have a look at my thread in order to see a potential answer to your question. I'm building a sizeable array of CXB3590 chips in order to determine their potential for large scale use. Link in my signature line.
not even a fair fight. 1000W of cobs would be spread out and give not only higher average ppfd but also perfect uniform coverage. i could prove you wrong with measurements, but physics is on my side
I admit that the 860W CDM lamps are not the most efficient, but I did the straight watt for watt swap and my back of the envelope calculations tell me I'll be getting almost DOUBLE the PAR from my COB LED modules. There's no way that won't make a big impact on my results.
Sorry, but I don't really know what you are referring too.
I didn't see it, either.
Now run those same lamps on hortilux platinum ballasts /
You know, I was warned off doing that. But if it worked...
soon to find out, the low freq is the important part, square wave a bonus to light quality.
Im pretty sure the cobs would kill it, but having the balls to change over is a real scare. Thats just real talk. Ive tried to calculate the savings in my head. Based on lets say an 800 watt array would replace ones 1000 watter maybe a 600 watt array i don't know being I've never ran one, only have you guys to go by. That alone would save some money. Might even be able to take off 3000 watts the way I'm thinking. And then theres the cooling. Still going to need cooling, cuz burners run pretty warm, but you'd might not use as much cooling. These are all the thoughts that go through my head.
I'm going to pick this lil nit; without the square wave part, the whole thing isn't worth doing in the first place. But I'll fuckin bring popcorn to watch a grow with one of those things slammin' an 860W CDM lamp, especially now that I know the fuckers here are really getting 1000W from my mags anyway!
These plus better spectrum and more points of light sold me. I gotta finish getting mine set up and then we'll see what happens.
What strain is that?
nice nugs bizcolorado , but for me the way to tell is what it looks like in a jar after dry / cure, I have seen gigantic buds shrink to nothing after drying. Not saying yours did!! but since I have experienced it myself, the fresh look, or simply the look for that matter, doesnt mean much compared to actual weight on the scale per square ft of canopy. Still, very nice nugs man!