MarsHydro lights?

BM9AGS

BM9AGS

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Wicked0ne said:
Would this be enough for a 4x2 tent? With recreational passing in MA I'm wanting to start up a small tent for myself. I'd like to do 2-3 strains at a time.
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Aim for ~30 actual watts per sqft with most lighting and you'll be fine. Or hid 2 250w would be cool. Tasty led has some leds that would be great for 4x2.

Actually timber has frames now. Look at timber grow lights probably closest to total diy cost you'll find

Or 2 northern grow lights

COB kits has the 3618s light engines too. That would also be cool.
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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Buttknuckle said:
Currently running some cheap fluorescent 23w bulbs in a homemade reflector fixture. my flower chamber is roughly 18"x25"x60". I'm growing in a stealth ish cabinet dwc right now and my current light set up does fine to get me about 3oz of aurora indica or a bit more per run . I'm looking to improve my performance and looking into doing a scrog grow as well... my space doesn't allow for any hid bulbs for the heat or space alone but i believe a decent led could step things up. I'm on a slightly tight budget but have been watching some panels on ebay and Amazon for a while and could get 2 600w panels for a couple hundred or 2 300w panels for less than 200. does anyone have experience with this brand? i know it may not be top the line but I'm not in the market for professional grade either but would love something that performs well. any feedback from someone with personal experience with these would be great.
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You should probably forgo Mars in favor of COBs. If you seriously can't afford even one, and you're dead set on an LED panel, go with ViparSpectra instead. All solid quality and even extra functions (veg/bloom switch; daisy chain outlet) and it even looks cooler than MarsHydro.

If you give MarsHydro your money, they'll literally just throw a Barbecue for their employees in China with your money while they laugh at your gullibility and post a video of it on YouTube.


Look into COBs. LED panels cannot compare to COBs nor HID. COBs easily compare to HID, but with a more attractive electric bill and less heat.
 
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Wicked0ne

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BM9AGS said:
Aim for ~30 actual watts per sqft with most lighting and you'll be fine. Or hid 2 250w would be cool. Tasty led has some leds that would be great for 4x2.

Actually timber has frames now. Look at timber grow lights probably closest to total diy cost you'll find

Or 2 northern grow lights

COB kits has the 3618s light engines too. That would also be cool.
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Ahh some of those look like great setups!

My money is extremely tight and I'm trying to figure out my best move. While I would love to invest a little more upfront to get better equipment I don't know if I'll be able to in a timely manner. I may have to settle on something cheaper. I can always get something cheaper and get things started while I save up for a better light setup.
 
Tim Fox

Tim Fox

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Buttknuckle said:
Currently running some cheap fluorescent 23w bulbs in a homemade reflector fixture. my flower chamber is roughly 18"x25"x60". I'm growing in a stealth ish cabinet dwc right now and my current light set up does fine to get me about 3oz of aurora indica or a bit more per run . I'm looking to improve my performance and looking into doing a scrog grow as well... my space doesn't allow for any hid bulbs for the heat or space alone but i believe a decent led could step things up. I'm on a slightly tight budget but have been watching some panels on ebay and Amazon for a while and could get 2 600w panels for a couple hundred or 2 300w panels for less than 200. does anyone have experience with this brand? i know it may not be top the line but I'm not in the market for professional grade either but would love something that performs well. any feedback from someone with personal experience with these would be great.
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did you build a light?
 
greenghost420

greenghost420

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you can use these household led bulbs. cheap and work well. i use the 800 lumen ones. about to see how well they are for flower by experimenting with em,they are great fr veg! fuck mars...
 
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CannaReview

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Trippyness said:
I agree but the heat is more of an abient heat than a direct such as HPS.
Its much more manageable.
People however needs to stop with LEDS dont produce heat.
They do, just easier to manage.
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LOL I always have customers coming in a saying they want to save on heat and power because they heard LED don't produce any heat. Sure the led don't produce direct radiant heat like a HID lamp but a LED array running 600W power supply doesn't magically run cold.
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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greenghost420 said:
you can use these household led bulbs. cheap and work well. i use the 800 lumen ones. about to see how well they are for flower by experimenting with em,they are great fr veg! fuck mars...
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Not trying to naysay, but I can't imagine that flowers very well? And like CFLs, I'll bet they can be tedious.
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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CannaReview said:
LOL I always have customers coming in a saying they want to save on heat and power because they heard LED don't produce any heat. Sure the led don't produce direct radiant heat like a HID lamp but a LED array running 600W power supply doesn't magically run cold.
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HPS is a high intensity discharge lamp using an incandescent operation, which pretty much utilizes heat by design to excite the contained gasses and particles, creating light.

LEDs use electroluminescence, which is just an electric arc moving over the phosphor face; this creates heat secondarily.

Most people will try to argue that anything the same wattage creates the same amount of heat. This is false, as I've illustrated that some technology such as older incandescent-type lamps deliberately utilize heat to function normally, whereas newer solid state technology does not.

Running 3 Tasty COBs full throttle, it probably gets somewhere in the low 70s, high 60s and causes no issue.
 
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CannaReview

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What about Mars warranty and customer service? I'm looking into carrying cheap LED's in my shop for non cannabis growers but need proper wholesale/end user support and DIY Cob is not going to cut it legally for liability reasons, already been warned by the local fire dept about carrying non ETL/CSA lighting. Seeing peoples reactions to 400/600 HID+ digital ballast to grow herbs/micro greens/etc I need to bring in something that will be 400W or so for $300 Canadian max with proper warranty from the company.
 
greenghost420

greenghost420

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Olive Drab Green said:
Not trying to naysay, but I can't imagine that flowers very well? And like CFLs, I'll bet they can be tedious.
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these sylvnaia bulbs actually have cree leds. i havent flowered with em yet but iv vegged large spaces with only 3 bulbs. 30w for like 3to 5sqft. these have saved me a ton of times when i run out of space for plants and just use a uhaul box with one per box. just got 5 more for 10 bux, might be the best value on light iv ever seen if they can indeed flower some nice flowers.
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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CannaReview said:
What about Mars warranty and customer service? I'm looking into carrying cheap LED's in my shop for non cannabis growers but need proper wholesale/end user support and DIY Cob is not going to cut it legally for liability reasons, already been warned by the local fire dept about carrying non ETL/CSA lighting. Seeing peoples reactions to 400/600 HID+ digital ballast to brow herbs/micro greens/etc I need to bring in something that will be 400W or so for $300 Canadian max with proper warranty from the company.
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Good luck shipping Mars to China for repairs. If you really want to carry cheap LED panels for new growers, ViparSpectra is better quality for the money than Mars is. I'd trust ViparSpectra over MarsHydro's cheap barbecue fundraiser panels.
 
greenghost420

greenghost420

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CannaReview said:
What about Mars warranty and customer service? I'm looking into carrying cheap LED's in my shop for non cannabis growers but need proper wholesale/end user support and DIY Cob is not going to cut it legally for liability reasons, already been warned by the local fire dept about carrying non ETL/CSA lighting. Seeing peoples reactions to 400/600 HID+ digital ballast to grow herbs/micro greens/etc I need to bring in something that will be 400W or so for $300 Canadian max with proper warranty from the company.
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customer service sucks! my friend bough 9 lights,all 9 are dead within the year and they wouldnt help after the 2nd broke...
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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greenghost420 said:
these sylvnaia bulbs actually have cree leds. i havent flowered with em yet but iv vegged large spaces with only 3 bulbs. 30w for like 3to 5sqft. these have saved me a ton of times when i run out of space for plants and just use a uhaul box with one per box. just got 5 more for 10 bux, might be the best value on light iv ever seen if they can indeed flower some nice flowers.
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Very nice. I don't think I'd ever do it unless I really needed to, but thank you for educating me.
 
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CannaReview

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Olive Drab Green said:
Good luck shipping Mars to China for repairs. If you really want to carry cheap LED panels for new growers, ViparSpectra is better quality for the money than Mars is. I'd trust ViparSpectra over MarsHydro's cheap barbecue fundraiser panels.
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I really don't care what a company does with the money they make, they could throw hooker and blow parties for their employees, I care about service/warranty.
 
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