So after spending a few days with 2x 400w Chilled strips in my 4x4 garden, I can say with confidence I am absolutely pleased with the investment.
Some things worth noting:
1. The quality of the build and components is top shelf (you can see and feel that excellent hand assembled USA quality)
2. The light penetration is fantastic, since the light source is not just one source, we are getting light down across all of the plants with a more even spread. (speaking from the perspective of coming from a 400w HPS setup)
3. Personalised and genuine customer service for purchasing and setting up for optimal performance. (Growmau5 and Vitaly both helped with getting me set up)
4. The spectrum tuning on this is fantastic. Blues, Reds and whites are all individually adjustable by 1% increments. No more external timers, and white mode is absolute perfection when checking the plants. Also sometimes I can forget to turn off white mode when working in the garden, but I've set the timer to revert back to full spectrum after 10 minutes.
5. Being able to dial in light intensity is very handy. This allows more control for lowering lights in nice and close when vegging clones and if you need to lower temps during certain months, but being able to also raise it up and get them photons to rain hell is also a beautiful sight to behold.
5. Sunrise/ Sunset: I am still yet to delve into this feature heavily, but would love to hear others experiences
6. Fan options on the lights (as opposed to duct or liquid cooling) is reasonably quiet and is something I value.
I have been running 21 inches above the canopy at 75% strength (roughly sitting at 600watts) during generative flowering cycle, and the plants are very receptive to the new change so far, after leaving their old environment. Unfortunately, nothing negative to say at this stage, other than I feel spoiled.
Happy to post results in the future
