who has grown with other light sources in addition to cobs?

[KarmaPaymentPlan]

so who else started with another light source or still chooses to use one?
do you use both simultaneously? side by side?
for those of you who have switched would you go back? why?

 

[Kevin the Great]

Switched to LED and keep CFL around for side lighting and to help keep the cabinet temps up.

 

[grouch]

I went from cfl to 70w hps to 100w cmh and I am currently using two dimmable cxa3070 3000k AB. I always struggled with wispy buds with cfl and the 70w hps. The 100w cmh would have been better but heat was an issue and the cooltube killed the benefits. I have been able to supply myself steadily for over a year now with the two cobs

 

[Olive Drab Green]

Started with 2 42w CFLs, switched to 1x 240w and 1x 500w BlackStar LEDs.

 

[grouch]

Started with 2 42w CFLs, switched to 1x 240w and 1x 500w BlackStar LEDs.

Any future plans?

 

[Olive Drab Green]

Any future plans?

Nope. Totally unaspiring. Why do you ask?

 

[stoned_chess]

I have not yet grown with cobs, but I've grown with just about everything else. My LED panel works fine, HID lights are inefficient as hell but make up for it if you go vertical (600w+ will grow the shit out of a small to medium grow room, just keep it from getting too hot), and you will get results from either. I don't see CFL as useful for much more than being a complementary light source for other more powerful and efficient lights. I'm getting parts together now to build a 200w cob, and while I'm a huge fan of cross lighting with all different types of light, ultimately I would like to go mostly, if not all cob with my setup in the future. People seem to get the best results with the lowest amount of watts with cob.

 

[grouch]

Nope. Totally unaspiring. Why do you ask?

The thread title said in addition to cobs and there weren't any cobs in your list. For some reason it felt like an unfinished story to me. I was just curious so I asked.

 

[p4id]

I'm currently growing in a 3x3 with a 250w sodium with 4 cxb3590's surrounding it. I'n the summer I will store the 250w and put 2 more cxbs in its place.
I find it works well as a combo, and saves me adding heating in the winter.

 

[brettsog]

I started with 265w of cfls then moved onto 250w hps now I'm using 153w cobs and ill never look back. Well I might use cfls for a mother plant if I ever have the space

 

[hyroot]

Growm with hps, t5, cmh, led, induction and currently run induction and led / cobs. My very first light was a 1000w hps with a magnetic ballast back in the late 90's

 

[Banana444]

I use hps, mh, induction, led, and cobs...every once in a while a might even use a cfl, clones and seedlings love the 6500k

 

[cdgmoney250]

600w HPS, 1000w HPS, Hortilux blue, and T5.

Never again.....

 

[Olive Drab Green]

The thread title said in addition to cobs and there weren't any cobs in your list. For some reason it felt like an unfinished story to me. I was just curious so I asked.

I guess I'm just learning about them? I had a bit of vodka yesterday.

 

[Olive Drab Green]

I guess I'm just learning about them? I had a bit of vodka yesterday.

And just now, I poured two shots into my coffee.

 

[Olive Drab Green]

How do COBs compare to mid-to-high-grade commercially available traditional LED lights?

 

[grouch]

How do COBs compare to mid-to-high-grade commercially available traditional LED lights?

Depends on which cob. The good ones are more efficient which will give more light per watt.

 

[Olive Drab Green]

Depends on which cob. The good ones are more efficient which will give more light per watt.

More efficient than normal LEDs? I'll have to follow the market. I was given these LEDs, and they're pretty good, but I dunno if he's going to eventually want them back, or if they were in fact, a gift. Either way, if I have to buy my own, by that point I'll have saved enough to do so, and if and when that happens, I'll have COBs in mind.

 

[grouch]

More efficient than normal LEDs? I'll have to follow the market. I was given these LEDs, and they're pretty good, but I dunno if he's going to eventually want them back, or if they were in fact, a gift. Either way, if I have to buy my own, by that point I'll have saved enough to do so, and if and when that happens, I'll have COBs in mind.

If you build a cob fixture and show it to your buddy he may not want his lights back. Than you can keep them.