also I will ad it depends on your situation. some people have to think about price, easy to pack so on and so on.The problem many have in discussing this is personal. If you own a setup you often want to protect your ego.
Those who understand cob design understand light penetration, and those who understand strip design understand spread.
Now you can cover your canopy with strips, run close and its awesome. Enough penetration to run a SCROG or SOG easily.
Cover you canopy with boards...you now have more options. You can run them gently, like strips, or run them hard, like cobs for penetration. Or anything in between.
This doesnt make boards better. They can be more flexible if you have enough of them. Yes, they can be run at 3 or 4 feet and at 1 foot or even less although that is not common.
Knowing what you want is most important. Vertical space is required for boards unless you can afford a lot of them for your space.
Thus...boards are the more flexible option offering both choices depending upon what you want to do. But most people will pick one or the other.
Have you ever grown with strips?The problem many have in discussing this is personal. If you own a setup you often want to protect your ego.
Those who understand cob design understand light penetration, and those who understand strip design understand spread.
Now you can cover your canopy with strips, run close and its awesome. Enough penetration to run a SCROG or SOG easily.
Cover you canopy with boards...you now have more options. You can run them gently, like strips, or run them hard, like cobs for penetration. Or anything in between.
This doesnt make boards better. They can be more flexible if you have enough of them. Yes, they can be run at 3 or 4 feet and at 1 foot or even less although that is not common.
Knowing what you want is most important. Vertical space is required for boards unless you can afford a lot of them for your space.
Thus...boards are the more flexible option offering both choices depending upon what you want to do. But most people will pick one or the other.
Very nice results, Duke. Donkey dick jungleI planned to chop these down and go from cut to get a better structure on them. But it was my first go with LED so I flipped them instead to see what they could do with plants which would have been too tall for HID. The top buds were right by the bars and would have been fried under a HPS in a hood.
The lowest buds in these pictures are a good 2 feet or more from the strips. They were rock hard.
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Yes.Have you ever grown with strips?
I had solid buds 2 feet down from a bridgelux strip build and it was only 320w
You can also run strips hard or more of them and soft, and you'll see the difference on the meter at about 2ft down.
Thanks for helping me get there dude. I appreciate your help on the build man, big time. Same for everyone else who chipped in.Very nice results, Duke. Donkey dick jungle
Finally i get a peep at your weird space, it was hard to grasp when you described it but now it makes perfect sense. Great harvest, seems like some nice genetics.Thanks for helping me get there dude. I appreciate your help on the build man, big time. Same for everyone else who chipped in.
spot on, well said.Penetration, as a function of some special light source, is imho a myth.
What kind of light? Its doing a good job720w 8 bar light from alibaba. Has the lm281 diodes instead of the latest/greatest Samsung lm301. It’s got over 320 LEDs per bar. For shits and giggles I just pointed my infrared thermometer at it. Also pointed it my T5 cause I was curious and it turns out the T5 actually runs hotter.
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Yes Chilled is top of line, my light is made by hydrotek, they only sell two types of led 440w and 600w but they do make good bulbs and have been around for years, so went with them, not that I didn't get a too good to be true deal.Yea I agree those lights are ridiculously overpriced. I understand some people want a strong warranty and like to be able to call the company if theres a problem but I'm fine with taking that risk to save a few hundred bucks.
If I was going to spend that kind if money I think I would go with the Chilled Growcraft
From some company called Sundopt or some shit. Don't order from them. They fuck up orders left and right.What kind of light? Its doing a good job
could it be that the better penetration mainly comes if you hang your HID higher and therefore have more refelctions over the tentwall, a more difuse light?Before the LED revolution there were similar discussions of "penetration", although they were focused more around the idea of inverse square law and more intense HID lamps having better penetration, not so much about multiple light sources from many angles. I'm not saying that anyone's wrong, but it's worth noting that the goal posts seemingly have been moved.
It's certainly a possibility, but I never remember that argument being made prior to the influx of LED lighting; it was always the claim of inverse square law superiority.could it be that the better penetration mainly comes if you hang your HID higher and therefore have more refelctions over the tentwall, a more difuse light?
so maybe no one is wrong and is cooking the same water just in different pots.