I am working on a plan for my first grow box and would like the advice of anyone willing to help. I need a small stealth grow with low heat output. I would also like to get a good yield as possible. From what I have seen that is all about Lumen's
First question is what is the lumens of the 90 watt UFO light? I have yet to find the answer to that. Is that even how LED's work? Or is it just on the wavelengths of the LED's that are supposed to be the key to them not the lumens output.
I have see a few grows with the UFO and not sure what to think about it overall yet. I see and understand the idea behind the LED's but not sure if it can stand on it own and work as well as CFL.
I have a HON metal storage cabinet half stack 42 h x 36W exterior / 32 H x 36 W interior. I am looking for low heat output so I don't have to vent the cab. I have looked into CFL's I can get about 19,200 lumens with 12 CFL's 23 watt, 1600 L each. I am thinking about adding the LED UFO 90 watt to add more power with less cords around the box. I would like to keep it simple overall less cables.
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I can get three clamp on lights take the reflectors off and put 4 y splitters on each of them. That will give me 4 CFL bulbs each per clamp light.
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I have also thought going with two sockets with 4 bulbs. Then add one socket in the center with one 85 watt CFL that put out 8000 Lumens at 5000K. That could give me some balance with different Kelvin temps. My first config was all 27K setup.
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Does anyone think that I can go with a 50,70,100, or 150 watt HPS? Still getting a good yield and keeping the heat down and not going with vent.
BTW... I have some girls outside... 7 total in one 5 gallon bucket. I threw them in and forgot about them. I saw them poking out of the bucket and started thinking I need to do something about this. So I am kind of in a hurry now and don't want to mess it up. Any ideas or links to other post I may have missed would be very good.
Thanks for the help in advance!
First question is what is the lumens of the 90 watt UFO light? I have yet to find the answer to that. Is that even how LED's work? Or is it just on the wavelengths of the LED's that are supposed to be the key to them not the lumens output.
I have see a few grows with the UFO and not sure what to think about it overall yet. I see and understand the idea behind the LED's but not sure if it can stand on it own and work as well as CFL.
I have a HON metal storage cabinet half stack 42 h x 36W exterior / 32 H x 36 W interior. I am looking for low heat output so I don't have to vent the cab. I have looked into CFL's I can get about 19,200 lumens with 12 CFL's 23 watt, 1600 L each. I am thinking about adding the LED UFO 90 watt to add more power with less cords around the box. I would like to keep it simple overall less cables.
OR
I can get three clamp on lights take the reflectors off and put 4 y splitters on each of them. That will give me 4 CFL bulbs each per clamp light.
OR
I have also thought going with two sockets with 4 bulbs. Then add one socket in the center with one 85 watt CFL that put out 8000 Lumens at 5000K. That could give me some balance with different Kelvin temps. My first config was all 27K setup.
OR
Does anyone think that I can go with a 50,70,100, or 150 watt HPS? Still getting a good yield and keeping the heat down and not going with vent.
BTW... I have some girls outside... 7 total in one 5 gallon bucket. I threw them in and forgot about them. I saw them poking out of the bucket and started thinking I need to do something about this. So I am kind of in a hurry now and don't want to mess it up. Any ideas or links to other post I may have missed would be very good.
Thanks for the help in advance!