My Amare & Hydroponics Hut O.C.GG#4 Grow
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Hybridway
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Your plants look great! Expect over a pound per SE-450 fixture. That's what I ended up with not trying at all. I literally ignored my grow, got mites, had environment issues & it was one of my lower yielding very poorly vegged plants & still exceeded the pound mark by a few oz.
I prefer my Amare over my HPS & am in the process of having one nice room of each. Won't ditch my HPS room as its produces big work & I've got so much into it. But I will be going all Amare for my LED room. Anything else just doesn't cut it IMO/Fact of the matter.
Your grow looks great!
ThaMagnificent
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My Pro9 and Johnson CX9 are arriving today!
Pro9 pulls 8.18A
CX9 pulls 4.51A
Think I'd be safe putting them both on a 15A circuit by themselves with nothing else?
Pro9 pulls 8.18A
CX9 pulls 4.51A
Think I'd be safe putting them both on a 15A circuit by themselves with nothing else?
Hybridway
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You may be able to get away with it but I would not recommend it.
the CX-9 is half the light as the Pro-9 so 2 of them could go on one 15a circuit. But the Cx-9 will have trouble out performing a SE-450 IMO.
If you don't mind my asking, what made you but one of those? Running CXA's w/ no enhanced spectrum. Just RQE white.
I highly recommend running another outlet if your not going to convert to 220v yet. You'll need two anyways so to run your fans, AC , & dehumidifier. BTW, as inefficient as they are, many decent stand-up AC's have a discharge port in the back & double as a dehumidifier. Something to consider.
ThaMagnificent
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Because I needed something to fit the amperage. I was shocked when I heard the Pro9 pulled 8 amps. Johnson has a new light comparable to the Pro9 coming out that only pulls 5 Amps.
Hybridway
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That's because it's designed for commercial use & bigger rooms. So, it would be running at 4 Amps plugged into 220v as it's designed to.
ThaMagnificent
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I have 3 circuits I'm playing with.
1 20A for all of my fans, veg t5, pumps, etc..
1 15A for the 2 lights
1 15A I'm running a 70 pint dehumid on
Does the dehumid pull lots of power?
Hybridway
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Maybe consider using the 20amp to run the 2 lights.
The 15 amp will run your dehumidifier as well as another 500watts of equipment I'd guess as most dehumidifier a run between 500-750 watts. Check your wattage on your equipment. Try not to exceed 1400 on your 15 amp & 1800 on your 20 amp. You running hydro?
What are you using for an AC?
I'd like to see you do a side by side with the CX-9 & a SE-450. That would settle many disputes over enhanced white vs. plain white as I believe the SE-450 will out yeild the white lights up to 660watts.
The Power-Par Tech Amare uses as they call it I think also allows about 40% more intensity in comparison to regular COBs w/o reflectors & lenses. But the CX-9 has lenses right? So probobly 20% in this case leaving allot of the work up to the spectrum difference.
Really wish you had the SE-450 to do this. I can't bring myself to buy a white COB light to do the comparison myself. But it needs to be done.
Do you know of any white COB lights that offer a 90-120 day satisfaction guarantee? If so, LMK & I'll do the comparison. I personally cannot afford to have a light that yeilds less as over the course of the year it would add up quickly & I do this as a job not a hobby.
Good luck! If there's any questions o may be able to help with, I'm more than happy to.
A grower that visits my Amare thread on GC Did this so to utilize his Mars panel. I'm thinking of doing the same to my Hydroponics Hut w/ hopes of not taking a complete loss on it.
$371 he said got him this 200 watts of Cree CXB-3070's to enhance his Burple. I like it.
Pretty cool hu!
Airwalker16
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On the subject of breakers, I'm currently running all my room on a 20 amp breaker. But I've noticed there are others in my breaker box that are the same size, but have 2 20 amp splits. I want to add 2 outlets to my room from 4 to 6 & put each 3 on they're own 20amp. I'm nearly maxed on the breaker box as is, so if this is do able it'd be so grrrrreat! Do able?
This is the one I'm using now for 4 outlets:
This is the one I want to use to run 3 outlets each and also in the pic, shows both styles:
ThaMagnificent
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So I have a 15' long bump out space I'm using in my basement...my basement is cool as hell and unfinished and is always in the 60s so temps are no concern to me, but humidity is a bitch!
5x9 gorilla tent
4x4 veg tent with flood tray
2xwhatever for clones
The way the electrician set it up (he screwed up) was he put the 20A with 2 separate outlets on the back wall. He installed 1 outlet with the 15A all the way to the left right next to the flower tent. I also have an open 15A about ~15Ft away that I ran a 14guage extension from to power the dehumid. I originally wanted 2 separate 20A circuits, but he screwed up originally and thought I meant 2 outlets on 1 20A circuit so I told him leave it and install another 20A circuit, but he only put in 1 additional outlet on a separate 15A circuit. ( I don't fuck with electricity)
So my setup is:
-little clone tent
-4x4 flood tray tent
-5x9 gorilla tent with 2 ebb and gro systems. Each system has 12 sites
I'm running the system like AlphaPhase where he uses the 1gal pots and slips them into the gro pots for flower
so I'll have 1 light over each system
5x9 gorilla tent
4x4 veg tent with flood tray
2xwhatever for clones
The way the electrician set it up (he screwed up) was he put the 20A with 2 separate outlets on the back wall. He installed 1 outlet with the 15A all the way to the left right next to the flower tent. I also have an open 15A about ~15Ft away that I ran a 14guage extension from to power the dehumid. I originally wanted 2 separate 20A circuits, but he screwed up originally and thought I meant 2 outlets on 1 20A circuit so I told him leave it and install another 20A circuit, but he only put in 1 additional outlet on a separate 15A circuit. ( I don't fuck with electricity)
So my setup is:
-little clone tent
-4x4 flood tray tent
-5x9 gorilla tent with 2 ebb and gro systems. Each system has 12 sites
I'm running the system like AlphaPhase where he uses the 1gal pots and slips them into the gro pots for flower
so I'll have 1 light over each system
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Airwalker16
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I think GoGreenLED gives a 90 day.
ThaMagnificent
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Trapstar has a thread using them and they look pretty good!
Airwalker16
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Help me please!
ThaMagnificent
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Dude I don't fuck with electrical wiring which is why I hired an electrician. Dude saw my grow stuff stacked up in the corner and started asking questions. Turns out his son moved to Colorado to grow....
Airwalker16
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I don't either. But I have an unfinished basement. I just followed some wires, read a few things, and finished a room, and ran 20amp electricity to it. It's cake.
Big smo
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Thanks man, pretty crazy to know my first room cost 4grand and this bitch in 15k deep already. I'm on the east coast and quantities are needed to be kept small so I did everything as tricked out as possible in my small space. I have a thread on afn going of progress of the build and grow. 1 pulled over 1lb per kind k5 so I'm hoping to beat that this run. 3 Amare's and 2 lec's. Might even go for another se450 to help with dark spots. They cover 4x4 and my space is 4x12. I think an extra Amare in there or 2 lec's between the Amare would be pretty sweet. For now my lec's are in the walk way.
Big smo
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If your close to Rhode Island I can hook u up. Shit my electrician is so OCD and his price is scary cheap. He gave me a bill which I would have assumed was half the material never mind labor too.
Evil-Mobo
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Airwalker16
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Far far away from there. Haha