dirtyshawa
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that thing looks like it's gonna have a nice footprint. what's the coverage area? i should have my custom one in about two weeks.
LED GROW TEST. 126W hydro grow led VS. 180W pro source LED LIGHT
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that thing looks like it's gonna have a nice footprint. what's the coverage area? i should have my custom one in about two weeks.
irishboy
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5'x3.5' flowering and 5'x5' veging
irishboy
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ya it gives off heat, just not crazy heat like HID. 3w leds with three 1w chips per led
irishboy
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they use them in all their light. and their 90 degree led angels so more penetration on ur plants.
the 3w means he uses 3w leds but they have three 1w chips to make 3w leds in one bulb. dont know if that makes sense to you? kinda hard to say.lol
it a 3w led bulb powered buy 3 one watt chips. so you dont lose the lumen's like you would using 3w over 1w led chips you still get the same lumen's as a one watt just x3. it also cuts down on heat doing it this way. from what i have heard.
TreesAsMedicine
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Bro, I am posting the LED experiment myself. I ran into the same immature bullshit on my blogs. Is it working? Yes. Is it cheaper? Yes. Does it produce as much bud per plant? almost. LEDs are the way of the future. I am flowering my AK-48 from nirvana (4 females) and the top buds are all up in the led light, doing GREAT. I had to plug back in my MH bulbs to make enough heat for the winter cold snaps! Everyone thinks there method is the best, but you give a man a smoke, he gets high for a day, you teach a man to grow, he gets a lot of people high, and teaches himself and others to grow.
TreesAsMedicine
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Whatever dude. They are working great for me as well. price per gram compared to my HPS, LED wins. Its business, and the enviroment.
Damn irsh im ready to see that thing in action!! when you gonna start that experiment?
im on the verge of buy a high powered led and probably from growled hydro but i think im gonna see how it does
that is alot of money but it may be worth it
by the way thanks for all the testing your helping pave the way bro
smppro
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notoriousb
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start your own thread to debate, this isnt the place to do it. ya nub
Damn sorry guys. Was not trying to start problems or put your system down. Was just telling you my experience. Probably should have elaborated sorry. I bout a 900 bulb LED a couple years ago, tried it for one cycle and didn't have good success. It was blue and red combo, and probably got the same success as a florescent bulb. I had another plant under a HPS and it was probably double in size. Did save energy for sure. I would love for LED's to work, i'm all about helping the environment but just got no luck here. Sorry if I bothered some people was just sharing my results. Hope they work for you.
smppro
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The technology has come around a lot in the past couple years, the past year even, most of the old lights used the wrong spectrum of red and blue. LED lights today are much more productive, people get 1g per w. You were jumped on because this is a thread to compare 1 led against another, if you would have said something about an hps being better you would have been jumped on, most LED are hijacked by people saying they suck when it has nothing to do with the topic, which is just comparing to brands, no worries
Right on! I hope they work great! I spent almost 400 dollars on one years ago and got just as good results with florescents. I jumped into the LED scene a little early it looks like! Was trying save people the money and time, but i'm glad to hear they have came with new spectrums. I hope they work great and looking forward to hearing results
irishboy
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next week i will be starting the new grow. i have allot of work to do on the room cleaning and stuff
irishboy
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theres one thing you need to understand. their is allot of led company's some are shit and some are desnt. the shity ones will get beat or matched by CFL's. the desrnt ones will beat CFL by a long shot. i grew with CFL's before and know what they can do so i am able to compare them.
now so far from what ive seen leds wont beat HID using less watts as claimed. their is no way a 126w led is = to a 400w hps. and no way the 180w is equal to a 600w hps. watt for watt they come allot closer, but not with less watts.
this past year their has been a big jump in led tech. so i do believe soon we will have some cool toys to grow with, but as of right now i am not to sure.
i figure ill give the 600w led light a try and if i cant get good yield with this light then i am back to hps for sure. 600w of leds should make some fat ass buds.
You know what gets me is on these LED companies. In the engineering field we charge an outragous price for testing products for people, and these LED guys are not only getting free testing but some of them have us buy the lights. On top of that they get FREE Ad time with us. Something does not equal here. LOL
Sorry Irish just had to say this. LOL Oh well so what are you going to grow this time? GOOD LUCK Bro..
Sorry Irish just had to say this. LOL Oh well so what are you going to grow this time? GOOD LUCK Bro..
irishboy
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i will do some hindu skunk and then some jack here x G13
hell yeah im on board!!
SCrog? lst?