Anyone running vipar led's ????

medichronic

medichronic

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So i bought 2 vipar 400w panels and am curently my 4th week of flower and am very pleased, now mind you this is my first atempt with leds so i dont realy have anything to base my judgment on so i am just wondering if anybody elts is using them with the same result? ,,,,heres some pics from day 23, she is a critical sensi star in pre baged tga super soilml3.jpgml2.jpgml1.jpg
 
medichronic

medichronic

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I was thinking about adding some side lighting but she is in a 2x4 tent with 800 watts, don't think its necessary, also kinda want to see what they will do by themselves this run then probably gonna add T5's all the way around for side light and run the same strain and see if there is much of a difference
 
medichronic

medichronic

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anyone elts ? like I said I am very pleased but I don't have anything to base it off as this is my first led attempt
 
medichronic

medichronic

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nobody elts running vipars huh ?,,,,,ok well like I said im running 2 of the 400w panels that cost $199 each on ebay I will let ya know how it goes as the price per watt ( if it produces ) is a great deal, I am 4 weeks into flower today and great so far
 
Spiko

Spiko

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Haven't heard of them but your plants look nice. They look fairly generic though most LEDs are. You may want to consider picking up a kill a watt reader to see what the actual power draw is. If it's advertised as 400w it's probably only drawing much closer to 250w and it's important to know the real wattage if you want to calculate your grams per watt at the end. Good yield using less power is obviously a good thing but 400w light sounds better than 230w light so that's how they label them.

Anyway your plant looks nice. Hope it turns out well.
 
medichronic

medichronic

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I am pluging into a watt meter tonight and will update with results, I am very curious to see what there actualy drawing
 
medichronic

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ok so I don't know much about LED but spiko was right . I plugged my 400w panels into a watt meter and each 400w panel was drawing 262w, im hopping somebody can tell me if that is good or not?,,,,,,,BTW I am still very pleased with the results so far I will post some pics tomight
 
budman111

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medichronic said:
ok so I don't know much about LED but spiko was right . I plugged my 400w panels into a watt meter and each 400w panel was drawing 262w, im hopping somebody can tell me if that is good or not?,,,,,,,BTW I am still very pleased with the results so far I will post some pics tomight
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That is the norm don't worry, as i said I use the B3x3 overhead and is 225w draw and is absolutely amazing for the price.
 
medichronic

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that's good to know bud-man, I jumped into the 2 panels I bought right after I saw some picks of led grows, and after $400 I started reading about all the cheap crap coming out of china,,,,, well I am fealing alittle better now that im seeing the results for myself,,,,, I will post some pics tonight , thanks for all the help
 
Spiko

Spiko

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medichronic said:
that's good to know bud-man, I jumped into the 2 panels I bought right after I saw some picks of led grows, and after $400 I started reading about all the cheap crap coming out of china,,,,, well I am fealing alittle better now that im seeing the results for myself,,,,, I will post some pics tonight , thanks for all the help
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Hate to disappoint but I'd bet money those LEDs are cheap crap out of China. They look really generic meaning they probably are just crap from China that some guy has slapped a "vipar" branding on. Those exact panels are probably being sold with 3-4 other brandings on them. It's all the same stuff from the same place with the exception of a few high quality very expensive american brands.

That doesn't necessarily mean they won't work though.
 
medichronic

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ml2.jpgHAHAHAHA great,,,,,,, well so far so good I have another month befor im done flowering I will keep the updates coming, hey if anything my $400 experiment may save some people some trouble,,,,, anyhow heres a pic at day 26
 
Spiko

Spiko

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I don't think from China nesasarily means it's bad. The vast majority of LED products are 100% made in China. Don't feel bad about it your plant looks great man.
 
medichronic

medichronic

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hey everybody, here is an update on the VIPAR LED'S everything is looking really good so far, just started week 5 and relly couldn't ask for more. they are supper frosty and rock hard all the way down to the bottom of the cola's, here are some pics at day 30, let me know what ya thinknewml1.jpgnewml2.jpgnewml3.jpgnewml4.jpgnewml6.jpg
 
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Smowkie

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Im really curious what these pannels will bring for you brother!

Dont have any experience with LED but im open for the thought :mrgreen:
 
medichronic

medichronic

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hey smowkie, ya I to am very curious, I like the idea of LED, the less power consumtion, the lack of heat issues, but all and all if they don't produce its back to HID. honestly I am very impressed. I have grown out this same strain under 1000w HID so when its all over in a cupple weeks I will be able to make a good informed decision but as of right now it is easely comparable to HID
 
medichronic

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quick update. they are still performing WAY beyond expected, about 3 weeks to go and I will know for sure. will post some picks alitlle later
 
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