Any double sided LEDs for side lighting inbetween aisles?

J232

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Did you ever go threw with this? I was visiting side lighting with led but not sure, distance and light burn concern me. Hence my “side lighting” search :lol:
 

J232

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I just picture fan leaves sitting on the diodes, maybe the center idea won’t work for me, side lighting should. Or really low watts maybe in the middle.
 

newbplantgrower420

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I just picture fan leaves sitting on the diodes, maybe the center idea won’t work for me, side lighting should. Or really low watts maybe in the middle.
havent figured anything out yet but I imagine the same thing. maybe a 400w hps bulb or double sided led diy strips. idk how effective it would be
 

J232

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Yeah, I don’t have much room, I have some of these double row f strips, thought maybe running them low could work, it might be more work then it’s worth in my scenario. I might try some side lighting and go from there. Might be a winter project too. You see Rens 1500w hps bulbs for side lighting? Holy shit lol.
 
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Got the idea from Renfro and want to incorporate side lighting inbetween these aisles.

Each one is ~15 inches. Going to clean up the sides of the canopy a bit once I do add it.

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I'm honestly doing the same thing rn setting up my first LED room I've got one spyder 2i and one gavita 1700e, I'm wanting to add some red spectrum to the sides of the plants to get some more coverage to the bottom buds. did you ever go through with any side lighting or do you have any tips possibly for such? One last thing, I absolutely Love ur setup it looks almost identical to the setup I had back in Vallejo except i was using old school single hids at the time. 2 4x8 treys with 2 1000w light over each of them almost exactly the same amount of space in the middle, but i always had a problem draining the tables after the would flood because I had one single 100 gallon reservoir in the middle working for both terys. Do you have a 55 gal res at the end of each of ur treys?? and if so how do you get them to drain properly being that the table is not as tall ass the reservoirs?? im assuming this is a flood and drain setup by the pics.. Thanks man any information would be great, I've been wanting to get back to a flood and drain system eventually but I wanted to make sure i knew how to fix my drainage problems before I did, but the best yields i'd ever gotten by far were with the flood and drain treys. Thankyou for any advice you've got.
 

newbplantgrower420

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I'm honestly doing the same thing rn setting up my first LED room I've got one spyder 2i and one gavita 1700e, I'm wanting to add some red spectrum to the sides of the plants to get some more coverage to the bottom buds. did you ever go through with any side lighting or do you have any tips possibly for such? One last thing, I absolutely Love ur setup it looks almost identical to the setup I had back in Vallejo except i was using old school single hids at the time. 2 4x8 treys with 2 1000w light over each of them almost exactly the same amount of space in the middle, but i always had a problem draining the tables after the would flood because I had one single 100 gallon reservoir in the middle working for both terys. Do you have a 55 gal res at the end of each of ur treys?? and if so how do you get them to drain properly being that the table is not as tall ass the reservoirs?? im assuming this is a flood and drain setup by the pics.. Thanks man any information would be great, I've been wanting to get back to a flood and drain system eventually but I wanted to make sure i knew how to fix my drainage problems before I did, but the best yields i'd ever gotten by far were with the flood and drain treys. Thankyou for any advice you've got.
thought about the side lighting but i barely have any space inbetween aisles to even utilize anything worthwhile.

i slightly tilt the flood trays by an inch or two to drain towards my rez in the middle of 2 flood trays so i dont have any water left over after it drains. so i have 1 70 gal feeding 2 4x8s. 2 4x8s with a 70 gal rez in the middle of the 4x16 feeding both 4x8s.

ill probably upgrade to 100gal reservoirs down the line. i was just told 70 was the correct size which is decent but not ideal.
 
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