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Humble Bee

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Hi fellow Farmers
Me and my Leds have been hanging around for a while now,
I use a Homeb. XXL tent, filled with plants from seedlings that just gone into veg.. Waiting for my Homeb modular Berlin to arrive that will be my new room.
I’m not Led purist, so I do use Hps ( as a complement :-P) when flower times comes…

I use Full spectrum Leds, two 300W and a one 128W that is switchibly

So this is What gonna go into my new Tent:

Greenair co2 generator air-cooled
Ecotechnics digital Co2 Controller + temp and humidity controller
Two 150mm cooltubes each 600W
The LED´s
Dehumidifier
Air cooler (still looking for which one=0)
Three big oscillation fans
Two Lightrails

I’ve took a break in my growing this winter and had to start out from seed again but will grow in cycles a fast as those plants will allow me to take cuttings.
Have to find out and to keep a mom, use to take cuttings from cuttings but now I will try to find a nice mother and keep her happy, thought that 128 W LED will be enough in a Homebox XL. But that’s a later story
Just longing for the tent to arrive so I can start to dial in all stuff as I´m also new to Co2..

Chai
 
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Sr. Greensea

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i just got a flashlight with the new cree XM-L led. wow really bright. i think it puts out 100lumens per watt at 3amp and 160lumens perwatt at 3.5amps. it looks like led's will be the future. im not jumping on the wagon yet but i doubt it'll be more than a year before i give it a shot. i was lookin at the procyon but the technology seems like it still has some growing to do.haha
 
Viagro

Viagro

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Sr. Greensea said:
i just got a flashlight with the new cree XM-L led. wow really bright. i think it puts out 100lumens per watt at 3amp and 160lumens perwatt at 3.5amps. it looks like led's will be the future. im not jumping on the wagon yet but i doubt it'll be more than a year before i give it a shot. i was lookin at the procyon but the technology seems like it still has some growing to do.haha
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Remember, lumens refers to visible light spectrum, not the light that plants use for photosynthesis (PAR).
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Procyon has a nice new mini=light kit out. 50w, and you can daisy chain them. Have to assemble, and solder the power line. (not included but offered dc>ac power source.

Why don't they just put the damn things together, I wonder? Cool light, anyway.

 
green bean

green bean

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Hey everybody, I use a spectra 180w led from GHL. The light was pretty expensive, but it works. My last grow was a SOG with 8 clones and a got a yeild of 110 grams. It could have been better(I'm kind of a noob). The buds were chunky and resinous just like hps buds. The results were comparable to a 250w hps. I really like the light because I can use it without fear that it could cause a fire-something that gave me anxiety with my hps. Its interesting how these things work. They are like microchips and microchips cost is reduced by 50% every 18 months or they become twice as powerful at the same cost. So we should see exciting advances soon. They are the future for sure.
 
HenryDavidThrowed

HenryDavidThrowed

Member
DUDE not all of us can fuck with venting a MH or HPS. not all of us can afford EVERYTHING we would like to grow with so we make due to the best of our fiscal abilities. you are not smoking my stash, or their stash. WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN STASH. if you have everything under the sun to grow with, then go for it. just keep your whiny fucking comments to yourself
 
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cervezacorona

Active Member
Nocturn3 said:
Why not do the sensible thing, and invest in proper ventilation instead. It's not just there to keep the lights cool, it also provides fresh air for the plants, and is usually a prerequisite for odor control.
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Why don't you invest in some get the hell out of the LED threads.
 
OhioMediGrower

OhioMediGrower

Active Member
Great thread and posts everyone here is a video from my custom built 4x8x7 grow box with a 600 watt digital hps and a three spectrum 300 watt LED featuring the church, strawberry haze, pineapple express, qrazy train, vanilla kush, grape god, and white widow. All in pro mix ultimate organic and subcools super soil with roots as the super soil base. in 7 gal pots.
Tell me what you all think! Peace out.
[video=youtube;KhjbcOvnkhY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhjbcOvnkhY[/video]
 
660nm420

660nm420

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Agree but with LED I only have to run my exhaust every 2-3 hours for 15 minute instead of constantly with HID. I would be able to only run it for 5 minutes every 2 hours lights on and every 3 lights off, if timers were more advanced, but sadly LED lighting continues to advance when we are still stuck with the 15 min increments in analog timing. How much power would that actually save?? about a 100 of the130 minutes that it runs in a day so about 77%
 
solarguy

solarguy

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660nm420 said:
Agree but with LED I only have to run my exhaust every 2-3 hours for 15 minute instead of constantly with HID. I would be able to only run it for 5 minutes every 2 hours lights on and every 3 lights off, if timers were more advanced, but sadly LED lighting continues to advance when we are still stuck with the 15 min increments in analog timing. How much power would that actually save?? about a 100 of the130 minutes that it runs in a day so about 77%
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unless in a closed system with co2 you should run the exhaust 24 hours for maximum air exchange and co2 potential for plants, normal air only has 300-500ppm so circulating fastest is ideal and constantly. EVEN at night! many people think not to but that is when your plant is most likely to get mold issues and humidity rises fast at night. exhaust and sir flow prevent this...keep the fans on saving a few bucks vs ruining your crop or losing a good yield...

plus a big cost to grow lights and fans isnt the constant power draw but also the kick on power draw, like stepping on your gas pedal it uses more gas to get to 60 mph than it does at 60mph. every time your fan kicks on it might draw triple to ten times the power depending on how far you are form your substation. this is called demand. turning it on 8 times a day might cost more than leaving it on all day, hard to tell
 
660nm420

660nm420

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Dude did you even read the mission statement? you work for the company that makes the "sweet lights" you are using. PLEASE respect the thread and follow it's rules so that it doesn't get all wrecked out like LED users unite "PLEASE, NO SALESMEN for LED company's dishing out biased opinions, to sale a light."
 
solarguy

solarguy

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660nm420 said:
Dude did you even read the mission statement? you work for the company that makes the "sweet lights" you are using. PLEASE respect the thread and follow it's rules so that it doesn't get all wrecked out like LED users unite "PLEASE, NO SALESMEN for LED company's dishing out biased opinions, to sale a light."
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dude i didnt try and sell shit to you your the one who brought it up in my thread and asked for information on the lights!, that is why i dont even give people the name of the light or a place to find it....some salesman eh?

idiot. i answered your questions on this thread. fuck off just trying to help you. and in my thread im just documenting a grow not trying to sell shit. sorry i have a job. -rep to you.
 
660nm420

660nm420

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It's not a completely closed off system. I have a room split into two with 1800w HPS and 400 cfms running constantly on one half and a 900w with a 200 cfm running on a timer within my house that is also well ventilated. In my room both exhausts cut off when I'm feeding co2. Either way I don't need nearly the wattage I once used in exhaust to get rid of all the heat so LED rocks like nothing I've seen in grow tech for a long time.
 
660nm420

660nm420

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You're just posting the same stuff on all the LED threads so I have to wonder why. So post on but be careful because nobody on LED threads like salesman from LED companies using these forums to sell their lights. We want independent documented grow journals but hey I just don't want this thread ruined as well. Can those lights be purchased at 1200 a piece??
 
solarguy

solarguy

Active Member
660nm420 said:
You're just posting the same stuff on all the LED threads so I have to wonder why. So post on but be careful because nobody on LED threads like salesman from LED companies using these forums to sell their lights. We want independent documented grow journals but hey I just don't want this thread ruined as well. Can those lights be purchased at 1200 a piece??
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not selling you anything man, yes 1200 a piece but you cant have one.
 
cstran1313

cstran1313

Member
hey just thought id post using kessil magenta 150h leds along with t5 supplement in coco on drip. just finished first week of flower.


 
espoker19

espoker19

Active Member
I got a 345 watt penetrator using 1 watt diodes (the 5th gen version). 2 weeks into flower, and I gotta say this light is definitely awesome for VEG. Havent finished a grow yet but so far looks great compared to similar HID (400 watt) flower results at 2 weeks. Have 2 ladies nice thick pistils starting and decent canopy penetration..I definitely don't believe a 300 watt LED will compare to a 600 watt HPS as the companies claim, but I think it can definitely out grow a 400 watt HPS easy. These pics are from about 2 weeks ago BTW, I weeded out a male and a hermie (had a fukin nasty light leak I didn't know about.)

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