LED Without LEDs -My First T5 Grow

Beagle

Beagle

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kpmarine said:
But proportionately, the two bulbs you listed to use in your setup are both blue dominant. Seems awesome for supplementary light, but personally I'd try to make it more red heavy. It seems you'd be predominantly blue light with just those bulbs (Just based on the relative spikes at least.). As for the redsun problems, I think it stems from people fiddling with their bulbs before letting them cool properly. I haven't had problems with mine, they all fired up, and no endcap issues.
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Find me a bulb that hits nothing but 630-670(that peaks around 660nm) with an IR spike and I'll be all over it like shit on a diaper!
 
kpmarine

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I sill see them for sale. Though they may just be old. I bought mine back in Feb., so haven't really looked into them aside from a quick search on google shopping just now.
 
kpmarine

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Beagle said:
Find me a bulb that hits nothing but 630-670(that peaks around 660nm) with an IR spike and I'll be all over it like shit on a diaper!
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Good luck with that haha. I'm just saying that 2 red suns would give you a nice 630 spike, and help your R/B balance favor the red quite a bit more. They are a bit pricey though, so on a budget they probably aren't the best choice.
 
hyroot

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They have never been called redlife. They are redsun. I dont know where people got that. They stil make them. Aquarium specialty stopped to carry them because they got to many returns on them. All the other shops still carry them. AS was the only place that had bad ones. Me and one of my friends got ours from hellolights andvthey have been going strong for 10 months. And I recently got 7 more of them too. HL had a march madness sale. I got the redsuns for $14 each. Their mh and icecap.bulbs were 2 for 1 . They will probably have an easter sale too.
 
AltarNation

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hyroot said:
They have never been called redlife. They are redsun. I dont know where people got that. They stil make them. Aquarium specialty stopped to carry them because they got to many returns on them. All the other shops still carry them. AS was the only place that had bad ones. Me and one of my friends got ours from hellolights andvthey have been going strong for 10 months. And I recently got 7 more of them too.
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eh.. Kelly at Aquarium Specialty said they replaced them with red lifes... I think I even have one that says red life on it... and I tried to purchase through a couple other vendors and they were out of stock around the same time, and having trouble getting more in stock. :shrug: Maybe I'll look up hellolights when I need some more tho..
 
AltarNation

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Beagle said:
To get back to the subject...

I'm making progress on building my stacked t5 cabinet system. I'm going to use the standard 6500k bulbs for veg...I know I'll get chewed out for that :p

For flower I was thinking FloraSuns and CoralWaves in this config:
FS-FS-CW-FS-FS-CW-FS-FS. Substitute FloraSuns for whatever equivalent ...Ultra Growth wave, Gro-Lux...ect.
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That sounds like a good flowering line up... couldn't hurt to work in a couple red-exclusive bulbs though, just to shift the overall spectrum farther red...
 
48martin

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It would be great to have a collection of bulb SPD's, that are tested with the same parameters.


What type of equipment is used to create an SPD?
 
AltarNation

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Beagle said:
Shrooms are nothing to joke about, I've had some overly intense not believing I was real trips on shrooms. As far as toxicity is concerned, they're safe.
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I was speaking of the toxicity, yes. Obviously no psychedelic should be taken lightly...
 
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pedro420

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So I've been looking for some where to get red suns from and nowhere has them is there somewhere I can get them that nebody knows of or should I just place a back order with hellolights
 
hyroot

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pedro420 said:
So I've been looking for some where to get red suns from and nowhere has them is there somewhere I can get them that nebody knows of or should I just place a back order with hellolights
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Marine depot has them in stock. If you buy 6 bulbs you get free shipping.

Hellolights is a very small store. But Dan is a cool guy though. Sometimes he would say he has.something in stock and did not. He had the fijis sent to me straight from the manufacturer. Did not charge me for shipping amd he replaced my ati and I didnt have to give him the non working one and didnt charge shipping there either. I triedbto go there to swap them. he told me to save my gas. Anyway thats why I like that store. Cool people, great service. The have sales alll the time.
 
hyroot

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48martin said:
I wonder if you could rent one? It would be nice to be able to find out where your bulb configuration sits in real time.
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Spectrogram is the software that makes the color charts. Radio spectrometer is what you read the bulbs with. Its $250 a day to rent or $5,000 and up to buy one.

We went through this with blue b who said they had one at his school and came up with what he thought was a fiji chart which turned out to be fake. Blue b disappeared
 
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pedro420

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hyroot said:
Marine depot has them in stock. If you buy 6 bulbs you get free shipping.

Hellolights is a very small store. But Dan is a cool guy though. Sometimes he would say he has.something in stock and did not. He had the fijis sent to me straight from the manufacturer. Did not charge me for shipping amd he replaced my ati and I didnt have to give him the non working one and didnt charge shipping there either. I triedbto go there to swap them. he told me to save my gas. Anyway thats why I like that store. Cool people, great service. The have sales alll the time.
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I looked on there site and all I could find was the vho I want the ho I don't think that I can use a vho in my fixture well I could just don't think it would run rite
 
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