Viparspectra thoughts from people that have used them

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Mattish

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avoid a HPS / MH, because once you go into that rabbit hole its a pain in the ass especially when it comes to heat in a small area and then you need to spend more money on trying to getting fans to extract the heat, then the heat is to much and you need to spend more money on stronger fans, why are HLG lights better? because they put out more photons per watt (photons are what grow your plant, not watts.) so a 150w LED (with samsung chips for example.) will out do a what ever a 250w ish vipar use because they are more efficient and put out more photons so you need less of them to be an equivalent. Also remember when you buy a HPS (with balast and hood etc.) you will need to buy a new bulb for it every 6 months (roughly.) where as a with a HLG and other quality LED lighting systems etc i think in roughly 7 years you'd only lose 10% efficiency within that time frame, thats a crazy amount of saving! with the amount of heat an LED produces, which isn't much you won't need to fork out on huge extraction fans, etc, so you will save money that way also, at least if the temps are to cold with a led you can manage that in many different ways cheaply, but trying to manage to much heat in your grow space is going to be a pain in the ass, especially when your girls are going to be majorly effected. get yourself a hlg 200$ light, fan kits for around 40$ and your good to go for 7 years (obviously depending on how long the fan lasts.)
 
Potmetal

Potmetal

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I put a couple of the 300w (135w) ones in my veg spot. I'm not bitching about them. I only run a few in there, but they seem to get the clones up to flowering height on time. Node growth is good (caveat: I'm growing the same strain in there always, so I'm quite familiar with it), and I have good stalk growth.

That said, all plants flower under a 600w HPS. Until I decide the ROI is advantageous to me it will stay that way.

Pretty sure that cobs/QB tech and price tag are gonna be the tits in the near future:peace:
 
Oogsi

Oogsi

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Potmetal said:
I put a couple of the 300w (135w) ones in my veg spot. I'm not bitching about them. I only run a few in there, but they seem to get the clones up to flowering height on time. Node growth is good (caveat: I'm growing the same strain in there always, so I'm quite familiar with it), and I have good stalk growth.

That said, all plants flower under a 600w HPS. Until I decide the ROI is advantageous to me it will stay that way.

Pretty sure that cobs/QB tech and price tag are gonna be the tits in the near future:peace:
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I’d love to build my own LED fixture with cobs but lack the general understanding of electronics around the subject.
 
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Dave455

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Oogsi said:
Damn dude I’m hoping it won’t be a lemon, it’s going good so far, I only chose it because I watched a few YouTube videos with it and it looked good and people said they did well with it , they now have a version with flower and veg switch which is pretty neat , I checked on there site and it said they would pay for the shipping in the warranty , must be shit having to pay to ship a faulty light , perhaps try again you might get someone nicer on the phone and they might help you out ?
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wait a few months !!
 
OneHitDone

OneHitDone

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Mattish said:
avoid a HPS / MH, because once you go into that rabbit hole its a pain in the ass especially when it comes to heat in a small area and then you need to spend more money on trying to getting fans to extract the heat, then the heat is to much and you need to spend more money on stronger fans, why are HLG lights better? because they put out more photons per watt (photons are what grow your plant, not watts.) so a 150w LED (with samsung chips for example.) will out do a what ever a 250w ish vipar use because they are more efficient and put out more photons so you need less of them to be an equivalent. Also remember when you buy a HPS (with balast and hood etc.) you will need to buy a new bulb for it every 6 months (roughly.) where as a with a HLG and other quality LED lighting systems etc i think in roughly 7 years you'd only lose 10% efficiency within that time frame, thats a crazy amount of saving! with the amount of heat an LED produces, which isn't much you won't need to fork out on huge extraction fans, etc, so you will save money that way also, at least if the temps are to cold with a led you can manage that in many different ways cheaply, but trying to manage to much heat in your grow space is going to be a pain in the ass, especially when your girls are going to be majorly effected. get yourself a hlg 200$ light, fan kits for around 40$ and your good to go for 7 years (obviously depending on how long the fan lasts.)
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I'm just amazed at what you say, HLG now has Heatless led lights?

Please enlighten us on cheap ways to generate heat in the grow space when temps are too low and also how to maintain adequate co2 levels when our extraction fans never exchange the air from the grow space due to cool temps....
 
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