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Anyone use the sunco led grow lights I just bought two of the 80w leds they are 4 ft long 2 in wide. They are being shipped now. I'm running 2 to 4 autos In a 2x4x5 tent fan small heater hydrometer and thermometer. I got curios and was running a sunco ufo led high bay ran in with 240. It was fine at full height and seedlings but now I'm in full veg the massive amount of light from the high bay stunted the plants. Has anyone used these wanna know if I wasted money
 
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Ok so I went to the gro shop and picked this up. I know it's just an Amazon light but it seemed pretty well off marshydro ts 1000 and when those 4 footers get here I'll use those for under lighting also got a free sample of soil conditioner. Tried it on one plant two days ago. It's the short girl in the pic I tried it on.
 

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Def not a bad idea. Also thinking getting caught up after all the Christmas spending and buying a really good light. I'm just not sure what is good or not
 
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That's the better option....budget lights can only do so much...I think HLG is having a 20% off holiday sale right now on a few things. Electric Sky es300 fits in your footprint as well...Growers Choice is another great option.
 
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I'm wondering what exactly you're supposed to look at when buying a grow light. I'm not sure what a good range or bad range is. I do know wattage that makes sense to me. That and lumins. What does a palnt need.
 
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I'm wondering what exactly you're supposed to look at when buying a grow light. I'm not sure what a good range or bad range is. I do know wattage that makes sense to me. That and lumins. What does a palnt need.
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Umol/s tells you how many photons it produces in a second. Same thing as ppf (photosynthetic photon flux).

Umol/j tells you how many photons it produces per joule/watt. Efficiency.

PPFD is your light output per area (photosynthetic photon density).
 
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Anyone use the sunco led grow lights I just bought two of the 80w leds they are 4 ft long 2 in wide. They are being shipped now. I'm running 2 to 4 autos In a 2x4x5 tent fan small heater hydrometer and thermometer. I got curios and was running a sunco ufo led high bay ran in with 240. It was fine at full height and seedlings but now I'm in full veg the massive amount of light from the high bay stunted the plants. Has anyone used these wanna know if I wasted money
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Highbay light in a short tent doesn't sound good. Strip/bar lights can be closer to plants. 30-40 watts/square foot is generally used to flower with decent led.
 
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Dank Bongula said:
That's the better option....budget lights can only do so much...I think HLG is having a 20% off holiday sale right now on a few things. Electric Sky es300 fits in your footprint as well...Growers Choice is another great option.
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just scooped a 320w kit from HLG. Couldn’t pass on price with sale, 350$ for 340 potential watts, I’ll take it!
and the 135 kit has been kickin full power for months now. Loving it

a light is definitely something worth the extra coin.. would suck to cheap out and then have it crap out on you mid run
 
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I had that happen with a t5. Thought it would be a good place to start. Workg on that end. The ballast burnt out within a month. Definitely going to invest in higher end lighting
 
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just scooped a 320w kit from HLG. Couldn’t pass on price with sale, 350$ for 340 potential watts, I’ll take it!
and the 135 kit has been kickin full power for months now. Loving it

a light is definitely something worth the extra coin.. would suck to cheap out and then have it crap out on you mid run
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What's great too is you can do a pay in 4 with PayPal! Makes it that more affordable. :hump:
 
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