Lighting the space, not the plants - is this enough ?

Huktonponics

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Hey folks. Im redoing my my tent and have also started remounting some Cobs ( Citizen CLU048 1212 ) that I've been meaning to do for a while.

I have a 10x5 tent with 15 pots in on a modular flood & drain system, 3 rows of 5.

Its basically wall to wall in there.

I've got 36 cobs on 6 meanwell 320H 1400b drivers and 2 x chinesium 480w lm301b boards.

I " was " running 4 x 480w chinesium boards in there but I wanted to sling these cobs on some T slot frames and use them with 2 of the boards.

Frames are 1m x 1m with 18 cobs on each. So 2 cob outside edges and the 2 boards in the middle.

Is this a little overkill ? I won't be running everything balls to the wall, but I wanted to get to all the corners and edges next run.

Cobs will be 3 rows of 6 with them staggered to the edges rather than equal spacing along the rails.
 

Bookush34

Well-Known Member
It’s only over kill is you run them cranked up.

those citizen 1212s are going to run 50watts

2760watts total. Puts you at 55w/sqft.
Which is very controllable with a dimmer knob.

I have 900 watts of cobs in my 3x3. That’s over 100w/sqft. I just dim it down.
I dial in with a light meter. The whole tent is very even PPFD.
 
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