Different effects between LED, HPS, CFL, CMH, COBS and Metal halide

[OldMedUser]

Try Walmart online if you can have items shipped.
One 1000w hortilux super hps is $68 or 8 for $440.
I purchased (6) 600w super hps for $253 with free shipping from them.

I don't buy any grow gear online. Call me paranoid but call me free too! 50 years of smoking, middling and messing with pot and 40 years of various grows and not even once charged with a drug offense. Had pot confiscated by cops and told to hide it better but never charged. White privilege works!

I just made my first Amazon.ca purchase last week. Bought a 40-1000X USB scope with Wifi box to connect to the first smart phone I ever bought last summer. Bitch to focus tho. Need to rig something up so I can mount it on my tripod.

I'm not all that legal so don't want to leave any kind of paper trail buying grow shit online or with a credit/debit card. I walk into a grow store with a pocket full of cash or do without. I'm boycotting the closest grow store, 2 hour drive and the next one is 6 hours down the road.

All stocked up on everything I need and stuff like ProMix, bug spray etc I can get locally at the hardware store.

Better prices online for sure tho.

 

[Kushash]

I don't buy any grow gear online. Call me paranoid but call me free too! 50 years of smoking, middling and messing with pot and 40 years of various grows and not even once charged with a drug offense. Had pot confiscated by cops and told to hide it better but never charged. White privilege works!

I just made my first Amazon.ca purchase last week. Bought a 40-1000X USB scope with Wifi box to connect to the first smart phone I ever bought last summer. Bitch to focus tho. Need to rig something up so I can mount it on my tripod.

I'm not all that legal so don't want to leave any kind of paper trail buying grow shit online or with a credit/debit card. I walk into a grow store with a pocket full of cash or do without. I'm boycotting the closest grow store, 2 hour drive and the next one is 6 hours down the road.

All stocked up on everything I need and stuff like ProMix, bug spray etc I can get locally at the hardware store.

Better prices online for sure tho.

I hear you!
I was the same way. I used to go to the hydro store for 15 years and always paid with cash. Prices for bulbs were steep. Occasionally I was pretty sure I could tell a customer who was a real grower. Quiet, to the point, polite and paid with cash. Then a few years ago I went on record and got my medical card and figured fuck it no more reason to hide. I have a 130 lb shepard to keep the neighborhood kids thinking twice lol. So I gave up hiding and only hope if the cops show up they knock on the door or give me a call. I bought my gorilla tent, bulbs, phresh filter and more dropped at the door through walmart.

 

[cogitech]

For sure there was some heat coming off the heatsink, but removing the driver from the top of the heatsink and mounting it externally definitely helped. It was only a couple degrees, but when I'm dialing in a space i like to have as much control over my environment as humanly possible.

Every little bit counts. I'll agree with that.

 

[cogitech]

I guess it depends on the growers environment. In winter for me 8% extra heat is wanted. In spring and autumn its not noticeable and come summer Its a large, unwanted difference. For me it could mean the difference between 42C in the tent to over 45C
If someone is running AC then 8% extra heat wouldn't even be noticed.

But I do agree with Nano, I can touch my heatsink and its only just noticeably warm the drivers are were the main heat source is.

Your heat sinks are far, far more efficient and effective at heat management than the average driver case (even if the case is aluminum), so they certainly should only be barely warm. I guarantee, however, that the driver is producing far less heat watts than the lights. It is just really bad at releasing the heat it generates so it gets hot AF.

As I agreed with NanoGadget, there are situations when every bit of heat counts.

 

[NanoGadget]

Your heat sinks are far, far more efficient and effective at heat management than the average driver case (even if the case is aluminum), so they certainly should only be barely warm. I guarantee, however, that the driver is producing far less heat watts than the lights. It is just really bad at releasing the heat it generates so it gets hot AF.

As I agreed with NanoGadget, there are situations when every bit of heat counts.

I'd be curious as to the actual numbers. Totally agree that the heatsinks will disperse better than the case the driver is in. @Stephenj37826 Have you guys ever run any tests to find out how much heat the drivers put out versus how much the heatsinks put out?

 

[Lucky Luke]

wtf is going on with the korean post spamming lmao who has the time to sit down and make that many threads

you join just to say that?

 

[LowOriginz]

you join just to say that?

Chill maaaaan just saying

What do you guys think of using this to replace both my CFLs and my HPS? im thinking of getting it on this next grow and using only that throughout the whole grow. As its probably half the advertised wattage should match the HPS. Or i could possibly use it for veg and then for budding use both HPS and this LED? or would that be too much

 

[Lucky Luke]

Chill maaaaan just saying

What do you guys think of using this to replace both my CFLs and my HPS? im thinking of getting it on this next grow and using only that throughout the whole grow. As its probably half the advertised wattage should match the HPS. Or i could possibly use it for veg and then for budding use both HPS and this LED? or would that be too much

looks like its only 110w I wouldn't be replacing a HPS with that.

 

[cogitech]

LowOriginz, no friggin way.

 

[Kingrow1]

Your heat sinks are far, far more efficient and effective at heat management than the average driver case (even if the case is aluminum), so they certainly should only be barely warm. I guarantee, however, that the driver is producing far less heat watts than the lights. It is just really bad at releasing the heat it generates so it gets hot AF.

As I agreed with NanoGadget, there are situations when every bit of heat counts.

Rep +++ for info

 

[NanoGadget]

Chill maaaaan just saying

What do you guys think of using this to replace both my CFLs and my HPS? im thinking of getting it on this next grow and using only that throughout the whole grow. As its probably half the advertised wattage should match the HPS. Or i could possibly use it for veg and then for budding use both HPS and this LED? or would that be too much

That light righr there, and the claims the manufacturer is making are the reason that a lot of growers distrust and dislike LED grow lights. Absolute junk being marketed like a miracle. The very best LED on the planet still need 600+ actual watts to get close to the performance of a 1000w hps.

 

[LowOriginz]

LowOriginz, no friggin way.

hahahaha lmao

Rep +++ for info

That light righr there, and the claims the manufacturer is making are the reason that a lot of growers distrust and dislike LED grow lights. Absolute junk being marketed like a miracle. The very best LED on the planet still need 600+ actual watts to get close to the performance of a 1000w hps.

aight gotcha. Was actually going to buy that aswell lol would of been scammmeeeedddd

 

[bezalom]

have this thing about putting an HPS in a closet

for whole room (med to large) I would use HPS and throw in a few blurples

for my closet I prefer COB, LED (my blurple has UV, and IR, and white light), and CFL

I add the CFL and some shop lights to bring my temps up to 30 C lest no transpiration occurs due to low temps