I sent the Veg8 back. UPS California to rural Michigan $91. w/AAA disco.
Think man!
The Veg8 2ft. x 4ft. size was wrong for the 50x50x79 Milliard tent. The Mega will be here Tuesday. I spoke with NextLight about the Mega in the tent. They said, "Great you'll veg and flower to the zipper and seams". There's that 5x5 veg-print and the 4x4 bloom-print. "You end-up with the Mega probably ratcheted all the way up to the top of the tent. And, early on, with the clones, the light might be too much for them, but you could use your Veg8". The Veg8 is is in route to MI, but my solution was to use the Mini for clones and teens, until the Mega takes over.
It saves me some money. The clones are on the
150-watt Mini for
5-hrs at night, supplementing their
10-hr sunlight on the deck. The Veg8 is 190-watts, but I won't need it. The
Mega is 640-watts and pulls
6.5 amps. So, it's going to run
15 hrs. a day once the sunlight diminishes or the plants get too big to haul out of the tent every morning. They're in one-gallon plastic now. Upcanned with Happy Frog, they get no nutes, but they do get: Filtered water, Silica, Cal-Mag, Epsom salt, Thrive, and 1/2 tsp of Humboldt Snow per gal. h2o.
Here's a handy guide to all of the LED stuff that's out there. I found out here, that the
Mega drew
6.5 amps.
https://growlightcentral.com/pages/best-led-grow-light-for-weed#led-table