Hydrofarm par meter

Is it worth buying?

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PSUAGRO.

PSUAGRO.

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no........asked the same question awhile back and was told by guod it's just a crappy lux meter with a filter.

You could have asked this?? In one of your countless threads btw........
 
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REALSTYLES

REALSTYLES

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PSUAGRO. said:
no........asked the same question awhile back and was told by guod it's just a lux meter with a filter.

You could have asked this?? In one of your countless threads btw........
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No I didn't. This is my first time asking. Let the hate go because it's showing really bad and I don't have time for you today unless you really want it kick rocks. I was just asking because I'll end up buying what ever I want. I just wanted some answers.
 
AquariusPanta

AquariusPanta

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I think you should get it, REAL, just to play around with. You should have Jerry buy it for you, as a way of thanking you for sending him business and as a way of "proving" his products work as they should (to clear doubt about whether they are counterfeit or whatever).
 
Jimdamick

Jimdamick

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I personally think it is something you will use once, and toss it on a shelf never to be used again. Save the money and get some good seeds, or better yet, more lights, then you won't need the meter because you have done all you can to increase light output. Or a good PH/PPM/EC meter, or some good supplements that you have been meaning to try. I can think of a few things that are more important to a good crop than that gizmo.
 
REALSTYLES

REALSTYLES

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Jimdamick said:
I personally think it is something you will use once, and toss it on a shelf never to be used again. Save the money and get some good seeds, or better yet, more lights, then you won't need the meter because you have done all you can to increase light output. Or a good PH/PPM/EC meter, or some good supplements that you have been meaning to try. I can think of a few things that are more important to a good crop than that gizmo.
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No it's so I know what my lights can produce. I don't have any plant quality issues. I've got good seeds and some new strains that I bred lol.

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Yodaweed

Yodaweed

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REALSTYLES said:
No it's so I know what my lights can produce. I don't have any plant quality issues. I've got good seeds and some new strains that I bred lol.

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Lux meters measure what the human eye can see, for what the plant uses you need a par meter, those lux meters are useless for growing crops. Not to mention when using a lux meter it only detects specific nm of light and since most LEDs use a larger spectrum it makes them even more useless.
 
alesh

alesh

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Yodaweed said:
Lux meters measure what the human eye can see, for what the plant uses you need a par meter, those lux meters are useless for growing crops. Not to mention when using a lux meter it only detects specific nm of light and since most LEDs use a larger spectrum it makes them even more useless.
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That is not entirely true. If you know SPD of a measured light, you can quite easily calculate a conversion factor between lux and umol/s/m^2. Accuracy will be mostly limited by the accuracy of the illuminance (lux) measurement itself.
 
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