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Petflora thanks for the input. With my house situation a sealed room works best for me. Currently my air temps never get above 80 and drop to 71 with lights out. My last few grows have done quite well under the A-51's with a sealed room. I do use a fair amount of fans to circulate the air within the room aswell. Every grow has been getting better than the last.

I've seen flood light COB tossed out and Cree bulbs (which I use for clone and on the edge of my large veg area) maybe I will start there and see where it takes me.
 
Edstonx said:
Petflora thanks for the input. With my house situation a sealed room works best for me. Currently my air temps never get above 80 and drop to 71 with lights out. My last few grows have done quite well under the A-51's with a sealed room. I do use a fair amount of fans to circulate the air within the room aswell. Every grow has been getting better than the last.

I've seen flood light COB tossed out and Cree bulbs (which I use for clone and on the edge of my large veg area) maybe I will start there and see where it takes me.
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Just out of curiosity, how are you or anyone for that matter who runs a sealed room.....how are you able to exchange O at lights out.
Thanks for the input. :peace:
 
Abiqua said:
Just out of curiosity, how are you or anyone for that matter who runs a sealed room.....how are you able to exchange O at lights out.
Thanks for the input. :peace:
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I run a CO2 generator and use a few wall mounted fans to circulate air. I'm also using 2 6 inch fans with carbon filters to circulate air between my veg and flower sides of the room. I use panda film as a barrier between sides. My CO2 generator is outside of the room and is water cooled. I did that to have better temp control. It's attached to a CO2 monitor that triggers both the generator and a 4 inch inline fan that uses 25 ft of duct to push the CO2 in. I have no vent for the room so the only air that can escape is backdraft or when I open the door to work. I've been running this setup for a while now and found it to work quite well and is the best for my living situation. My CO2 generator barely has to run to fill that room to 1500 ppm CO2.

Hope that answered your question.
 
Ok, my brain is going to explode going through all this lol. Going to start my first grow with a 2x2x5 tent with 2 plants to start. So since it's the first one I'm on a bit of a budget. looking for a led that can be used for all stages more or less. What wattage am I going to need, and light recommendation would be help full too.
 
Better quality(usually more pricey) you can run as low as 150 true/actual watts. For budget units I would suggest 200-250 true/actual watts. Design and components will all play into it, but that's the general wattage I would recommend for a 2x2.
 
i want to switch to LED to save on the power bill. i plan to put 5-6 plants in a 2'x2'-6" storage tote DWC. i have a 400 HPS over each one now and want to know which LED you all recomend. cost isnt much of an issue, right now im looking at:

solar flare 220
rhino 400
kind L300

any thoughts on these or other suggestions would be much apreciated.
 
I have a solar flare 200 and a pro grow 260 and a Hans 80 watt. I think the Hans will be first, pro grow 2nd and solar flare 3rd. They are all pretty new to me, but Hans seem's the best so far. There only about a million different one's out there :-?.
 
Northern Reflections said:
Ok, my brain is going to explode going through all this lol. Going to start my first grow with a 2x2x5 tent with 2 plants to start. So since it's the first one I'm on a bit of a budget. looking for a led that can be used for all stages more or less. What wattage am I going to need, and light recommendation would be help full too.
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My neighbor has a 2x2x5 with 6 plants. He is using a 300w LED similar to this, http://www.ebay.ca/itm/291003115391?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2648.

He's 1 month into flower and it's looking spectacular. People who are against LED are just old guys stuck in their ways. LED is legit shit.

Personally I'd go with something more like this 450w http://www.ebay.ca/itm/390741818306
 
Abiqua said:
Almost jumped on one of these about a year ago, they have been out for a while. One of the intriguing things is the Led placement with a reflector, which seems superior and the lumen counts are much higher than the other generic equivalents.

Its a 270w light running, 450w reported.
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There are quite a few grows in here using these panels, I'm following 3 right now, https://www.rollitup.org/led-other-lighting/800798-white-widow-big-bud-x.html, https://www.rollitup.org/led-other-lighting/800484-576-watt-lg-led-solutions.html, https://www.rollitup.org/stealth-micro-cab-growing/772856-300-watt-led-micro-scrog.html. I have one of these 450's running in my sig thread, they pull 200 on veg, 300 on veg+bloom switches on. I tried a couple of others and these do put out a lot of light in comparison. This is my first full veg/flower run with it, and in a pretty stable environment, good test for them.
 
bicit said:
Anyone have any experience with onyx lights from rapid LED?
http://www.onyxgrow.com/bloom.html

Looks nice, cheaper than Area-51.
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I own one bloom model(using it in veg with some supplemental blue at the moment) , have 3 more bloom models and 1 veg model on the way.
They should be here by Monday.
Very intense light, much more compact yet as powerful (more powerful actually) as the xgs.
Very nice light so far.
 
dbkick said:
I own one bloom model(using it in veg with some supplemental blue at the moment) , have 3 more bloom models and 1 veg model on the way.
They should be here by Monday.
Very intense light, much more compact yet as powerful (more powerful actually) as the xgs.
Very nice light so far.
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Looks like a nice light.
So it actually pulls 220 watts?
 
Looks like someone need s to make some par charts if everyone is gong to bandwagon this light. Don't get me wrong, good component(do we know the bins?), but the actual size makes me worry about the coverage.
 
wyteberrywidow said:
Looks like a nice light.
So it actually pulls 220 watts?
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haven't put the killawatt meter on it yet but the guys that build them tell me that's what it pulls as indicated by a killawatt meter.
I'll bust my killawatt out when I get the rest of the panels and see how consistent they run.
But those are 10 watt emitters run at 7.something watts and there are 28 of them. You have to consider power supply and fan wattage which should be minimal.
 
Any Good D.I.Y. Threads on Cree? ~ CREE XLamp CXA25xx and CXA3050 series.

Been looking into these and finding out about em...finding them on FleaBay is kinda a mission..

Did see a Thread on R.I.U. but not enough detail, and kinda get the impression that the Guy had paid like $40 for one unit(LED/COB) whatever the Fu*k ya call em.

been googling.. and found this...

http://howtogrowmarijuana.com/DIY-LED-grow-light

Peace

Any pointers be great guys..
 
Thanks for the reply! I've had my finger on the button thinking about a 300w light same make as the 450w. I think that the 450 might be a bit big physically for a 2x2 space. I'm kind of glad not to see everything I've been looking at being put into a bad light. lol. They seem to have the same over all wavelengths as the big boys and therefore do lets just say a good enough job for the money.
 
Surprisingly, I did hear back from LEDPlantLight

They say they have 2 different chips, and sent me a bad link to the correct one

They also sent me a breakdown of the 3w diodes inside each.

Oddly, they have a 75w and 100w chip, neither has good spectrum balance

Neither looks like the pictured chip in their lens cob light

They asked for my input which i gave.
 
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