Grass is Always Greener
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You still think the scorpion are best considering a veg room, flower room, and/or mother's???
New to LEDs Need Advice
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bk78
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Lots of great lights out there. I personally would get 4 chilLED growcraft x6 over the scorpion myself. I know they had a pretty good sale on a couple weeks Ago.
PadawanWarrior
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I'm surprised you said ChilLed, but I agree.
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bk78
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Still on sale
Growcraft X6 - 1000 Watt DIY LED Grow Light Kit
Growcraft Light Spectrum Options Passive Cooling Linear Bar Design Thin Profile – Only 1.375in Tall Rugged T Slot Bar Design Oversized surface area for maximum heat dissipation Remote Power Driver Location Lower your heat load by removing power driver outside grow area Assembly Instructions...
chilledgrowlights.com
Boatguy
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Fuck the par meter. Just get a light that matches your square footage and dim or brighten as needed.
Par meter is really good for nothing, and an unneeded expense
willy473
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So par doesn't affect plants
Evelyn Fong
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As one sq need around 32W will be enough, so 9*9 ft will need around 2592W will be fine. For this big room, light strips will be a good choice.Could put two 1000W light strips in each side and add some small watt light in the corner. Or could use two 1200W light and a 200W light strips as a supplemental light.
MyBallzItch
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What you're describing would not adequately light the area. LEDs don't have much spread. If he built his own lights he could probably figure it out but what you're describing would have a lot of dark areas
Grass is Always Greener
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After reading through everybody's post. I appreciate all the advice.
Ive narrowed it down to HLG, chilLED, or grow craft.
Forgive for still being a lil undereducated when it comes to actual wattage vs wattage, its hard because there are so many companies you can't trust. And my math is terrible.
Im also dividing this space 2/3 flower 1/3 veg.
Ive narrowed it down to HLG, chilLED, or grow craft.
Forgive for still being a lil undereducated when it comes to actual wattage vs wattage, its hard because there are so many companies you can't trust. And my math is terrible.
Im also dividing this space 2/3 flower 1/3 veg.
Grass is Always Greener
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Dont know much about light strips, you gotta link? What about a veg vs flower?
Grass is Always Greener
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I like them a lot but do I have actually put them together i know nothing about that. Are they easy to put together?Still on sale
Growcraft X6 - 1000 Watt DIY LED Grow Light Kit
Growcraft Light Spectrum Options Passive Cooling Linear Bar Design Thin Profile – Only 1.375in Tall Rugged T Slot Bar Design Oversized surface area for maximum heat dissipation Remote Power Driver Location Lower your heat load by removing power driver outside grow area Assembly Instructions...
bk78
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You literally place the bars in the slot and plug them in.
bk78
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MyBallzItch
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So roughly 54ft² flower 27 ft² veg?
Grass is Always Greener
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Yeah roughly.
Grass is Always Greener
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Nice im going to the site now.
bk78
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With your low ceiling heights, I’d definitely go with the growctaft
MyBallzItch
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2 of those over a 5x10 area would be 50ft² so you have a good flower area there.
Vegging you clearly don't need as much power so you can either get another one of the diy 1000 since they are on sale and a great value, or if you're trying to save a couple bucks somewhere you could get one of those Mars fc e 6500 and they should veg a 5x5 area. If you have any presence on social you could reach out to @MarsHydrofactory and maybe get a discount or sponsored light to post a couple pictures. Seems like they have been pretty heavy on that. I'm guessing it could be because they were putting lower bin diodes on some fc series lights that were being marketed as having 301b. They seem to be upfront about the fce model and @jondamon seems to be liking his and I like both of my fc lights for whatever that's worth