Is this LED grow light good

SMOK3Y1888 said:

So I was looking at http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/311367763784
I was wondering if it's good to grow from beginning to end

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Hiya SMOK3Y1888
In 2013 i used 1 of those LED lights along with 3 small CFL bulbs (around 10 Watt's each in Daylight White) and had some pretty good results from it.
I was short of cash at the time and couldn't afford to run my 600Watt HPS so gave it a try to see what would happen.
I was told by quite a few people on here that i was wasting my time but i ended up with some quality smoke that my mates wanted more of.
MJ is a Weed that will grow almost Anywhere with a half decent amount of light. These LED lights produce more than enough of the spectrum that they need along with some side lighting to grow a Nice 3 to 4 foot stunner. (or Bigger if you want?)
This was a Barnies Farm, Pineapple Chunk and cost next to nothing in electric cost's thanks to the LED'S.
Good Luck with you grow and i hope it all goes well

Im gonna chime in if you guys dont mind and give you run down on good LED's. I am always skeptical of them since they came out as all of them failed to meet their claims drastically. With that said more recently in the last few years they have progressively gotten much better and there are many good ones on the market.

You want to only use LED's that have a minimum 5w chip sets with good drivers/processors from legit companies not the BS ones made in Taiwan/China dont even waste your time I promise you this.

If money is an issue the best bang for your buck will be the KIND LED's. Im running them in Veg right now got rid of my VHO LED's and they outperform them and dont draw anywhere near the heat or electricty. I was running 4 of the 895w VHO T5's from Sunlight which are top of line T5's and I like these KIND LED's much better. I dont need to cool tent down now other than just small blower in and out. Im now running 4 of the 600w equivalent units in a 4x8 tent and there fckin awesome. The internodal spacing is even better than T5's which is impressive and they are super bright!

Ok now heres the real deal on top dog units.

If money isnt an issue and you want a serious LED for all stages of growth and bloom. The absolute best LED on the market IMHO is the BML SPYDER LED. Hands down this is a bad ass top dog unit the 1200w equivalent will compete with the Gavita's and standard 1000w's and even outperform the shit.

Another great LED not as good as that BML SPYDER is the California Light works SOLARSTORM this comes with full spectrum and UVB and has additional special T5 flowering bulbs for finishing and is also a very good unit. My buddy using them right now and they are in between a 600w and a 1000w yield wise but will give you better quality and resins. He has resin oozing out of his flowers its insane. If I didnt have all brand new ballast and equipment I would def be getting the SOLARSTORM 880's and rock em hard. They are expensive but they work fckin awesome.

And last but not least is the G8 by DormGrow.com. Ive seen demo done growing huge fckin tomatoes better than any other LED. And if you know lighting you know its damn hard to grow huge tomatoes unless you got a powerful light and these ones grew some huge softball sized tomatoes. Very impressive, but also somewhat expensive but worth money in the long run.

Than theres the original premium LED which is the BlackDog LED, now these are decent units also but I think that I give them a backseat to any of the ones I mentioned previous for 2 reasons. First reason is that they are enormous in size and weight. I think there something like 45-50 lbs a unit for the 1000w equivalent which is fckin heavy. Shit will rip your studs out the ceiling. (Not literally just saying). They are very very heavy but its because they are well made and use quality materials. Number 2 is that for the price you can get any of these other units for around or a little cheaper than this unit usually I think is like 1700-1900 for the biggest unit which is obviously not for the faint of heart. Other than that these are very good unis and I consider them 600w equivalents for their top dog unit they say 1000w equivalent but Ive seen them work on runs and you be lucky get around a pound per light. So for the upfront cost i give it an EHHH Rating.

I think if people wait a year or two the price of these will drop as technology gets better and people start using them more and more. They still have a little way to go before they are absolutely worth changing out to but if youre in time for a new ballast or just want to get better quality flowers and dont wanna keep trying to beat the heat especially in these HOT SUMMER months they are definetely worth purchasing. (Im sure there are other good units out there these are just units I know work and work very well in comparison to HID LIGHTING.

And if anyone is interested in some brand new technology coming out of Spain. Than check out the Philips 315 CMH. These IMHO are going to be the new rage and wave that sets the standard for growing. Check this shit out. Im working on setting up another grow soon and Im gonna be running these in my main bloom room and running the KIND LED's in my veg room just because I wont need the high power intensity and cost of other units since I am just going to be using them for VEG only.

Hope people find this helpful. Just stay away from the cheap bullsh*t on Ebay and Amazon whatever. They are cheap for a reason. And any company that doesnt provide a minimum 1-2 year warranty is bullsh*t. And i wouldnt bother dealing with any company that doesnt have a guarantee on their product because that means they arent even sure it is good.