Dirt Genius LED's

Any opinion on the Dirt Genius Line of LED's??? I went ahead and ordered one Veg spectrum and one Flower spectrum.....mainly because of their 3 year warranty and being located in the USA. Look's like blackstar LED's but way cheaper. I have the Veg LED light over some seedlings I just germinated they seem to be doing fine. The flower LED light is smack dab between two 600W HPS's in my main tent that is 4'x8'x7' (WxLxH) . I've had these two for about 4 weeks now and so far they are holding up well. No lights have gone out yet...so I cant complain. I'd be curious to find out the PAR output on these.

There is a video on youtube if you search for "Joyhydrogrow 300 watt vs dirt genius 280" that shows the actual draw on his kill-a-watt meter and they seem spot on. One for veg and one for flower. They advertise on their website:

The Veg light as: 240 Watt theoretical and 165 Watt actual draw (mostly white light)
The Flower as: 240 Watt theoretical and 140 Watt actual draw. (mostly red light)

P.S. Although I don't know the PAR output or lumen output on these, I gauged the value based on price per watt. I paid $260 for the two lights so thats:

165 Watts + 140 Watts = 305 True Watts.....so then $260/305 True Watts = about $0.85246 per watt. So the two lights are about 85 cents a watt to purchase. It was cheaper than everything else I saw out there that I was willing to take a chance on.

thought of building your own?.. also do you have a link to the website you got them from?

HolyGhost23 said:

thought of building your own?.. also do you have a link to the website you got them from?

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I never thought of building my own LED light panel..... I dont think I would have the time to research it, sit down and then build it myself.

I purchased my lights with a promo coupon from vminnovations website or amazon.....I cant remember which one to be honest. The stats for the lights themselves are on dirtgeniuses website.....just google "Dirt Genius" . They looked like a better value than the Tao-Tronics and Apollo LED's.....at least to me they did. I know Area51, Hans, and Apache are supposed to be top of the line but I couldn't justify the price.

Joyhydrogrow is pure junk unless you want to grow algae.

blackstars are crap. dirt genius is a lower quality knock off. so even worse. don't waste your time and money. You will be disappointed..