Will this cheaper LED work?

[GrowTime38]

Looking to try and not spend hundreds on a LED for a 4x4 tent. I currently use 2 x 200w lights in a 8x4x6 space. For flower I switch to 2 x 100w lights. Will this work for the 4x4 space? 20k lumens and 200W. If not what do you reccomend and why?

 

[PadawanWarrior]

Looking to try and not spend hundreds on a LED for a 4x4 tent. I currently use 2 x 200w lights in a 8x4x6 space. For flower I switch to 2 x 100w lights. Will this work for the 4x4 space? 20k lumens and 200W. If not what do you reccomend and why?

I'd get a real grow light. HID would be cheapest.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Looking to try and not spend hundreds on a LED for a 4x4 tent. I currently use 2 x 200w lights in a 8x4x6 space. For flower I switch to 2 x 100w lights. Will this work for the 4x4 space? 20k lumens and 200W. If not what do you reccomend and why?

did you say this backwards?
"I currently use 2 x 200w lights in a 8x4x6 space. For flower I switch to 2 x 100w lights."
as far as lights, you get what you pay for.

 

[420Dust]

You could use that all the way through but I would buy a 3000 to 5000 spectrum for flowering.

 

[go go kid]

as
PadawanWarrior said, hid's are your best bet, a 400 watt would do, 600 watt would be better

 

[Kerowacked]

I stopped at 6500k

 

[PadawanWarrior]

as
PadawanWarrior said, hid's are your best bet, a 400 watt would do, 600 watt would be better

Hey that's cool what you did there. I didn't know you could do that. How'd you do that?

 

[go go kid]

Hey that's cool what you did there. I didn't know you could do that. How'd you do that?

i just cut n pasted your name from under your avatar and it creates a link direct to you

 

[PadawanWarrior]

i just cut n pasted your name from under your avatar and it creates a link direct to you

go go kid

Nice man, thanks.

 

[go go kid]

for example, a ballast will run you https://www.ebay.com/itm/262341337063?var=561122208741&hash=item3d14c31fe7:g:XQYAAOSw74FamB6L
and a bulb will cost you https://www.ebay.com/itm/302489681724?hash=item466dca3f3c:g:AvUAAOSwwohZ5A81
and a lamp shade will cost you https://www.ebay.com/itm/3134990576...ISxKF3ntfqF88w%3D%3D|ampid:PL_CLK|clp:2047675

oh wll, that didnt exactly work the way id hoped, but cut n paste for the results

 

[Horselover fat]

what do you reccomend and why?

Reading and learning, because then you would know. Asking will result in many different answers and you have no way of knowing which is a good answer. There really isn't that much to learn. Look up umol, umol/j, ppf, ppfd, and dli and you're pretty much there.

 

[oill]

Looking to try and not spend hundreds on a LED for a 4x4 tent. I currently use 2 x 200w lights in a 8x4x6 space. For flower I switch to 2 x 100w lights. Will this work for the 4x4 space? 20k lumens and 200W. If not what do you reccomend and why?

Get a 315cmh light.... or 2 of them..... amazing lights

 

[Norml56]

Get a 315cmh light.... or 2 of them..... amazing lights

I agree. I would go with 2 315 CMH. There is also this newish 500 watt CMH that would be perfect for your 4x4.
500 watt CMH

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

i used hid lighting for years, then went to leds 2 years ago, and i wouldn't go back for love or money...but the initial set up isn't cheap. i spent about 700 dollars buying parts from digikey and put my own together, and they've been working perfectly for the entire time. i'm using 200 watts less than i was with hid, so less heat in general, and a lot less radiant heat, and a better spectrum that will take decades to degrade, compared to maybe 2 years of useful life for an hid bulb...

 

[ANC]

Looking to try and not spend hundreds on a LED for a 4x4 tent. I currently use 2 x 200w lights in a 8x4x6 space. For flower I switch to 2 x 100w lights. Will this work for the 4x4 space? 20k lumens and 200W. If not what do you reccomend and why?

need around 1000W for that footprint, even with proper LED

 

[oill]

Looking to try and not spend hundreds on a LED for a 4x4 tent. I currently use 2 x 200w lights in a 8x4x6 space. For flower I switch to 2 x 100w lights. Will this work for the 4x4 space? 20k lumens and 200W. If not what do you reccomend and why?

No... cheapskates pay double in the end! Buy a Mars hydro light and be done with it. Great quality decent price

 

[emerson61]

People get all high and mighty, with “I use X light; Y light is crap and only good for veg” sorts of virtue signaling comments when it comes to lighting. I would never deny that LED light quality can vary a lot, but for past 3 years I have used King LED, Viparspectra, and now Phlizon LED lights (often shunned as “cheap Chinese lights”). My current lights- I bought 2 2000 watt natural sunlight design heat sink lights drawing 220w each from the wall (which is what matters the most, by far)- cost about $200 each. I previously used King LED 1500w (about $200), and a Viparspectra 600w (about $175), and the G8 red light (about $180). So, for my past few grows I used lights pulling a total of about 550 watts from the wall, and in my 4x4 tent, I pulled 17, 17, and 18oz of premium quality dense and super frosty buds. The point is, you do not need to spend $500-$1000 or more on a freaking LED light for good results. Don’t buy the hype; You can get good quality diodes and good wattage draw from the wall pretty cheap now. Wattage from the wall is what matters, if you want yield and dense, good quality buds.

More important? Genetics, genetics, genetics!

 

[Horselover fat]

. Wattage from the wall is what matters, if you want yield and dense, good quality buds.

Nah, what matters is how much light is produced. Then there's efficiency ie how much electricity is needed to produce the light.

 

[Getko]

Go with the real led grow light , not any kind led light is for growing .

 

[Norml56]

People get all high and mighty, with “I use X light; Y light is crap and only good for veg” sorts of virtue signaling comments when it comes to lighting. I would never deny that LED light quality can vary a lot, but for past 3 years I have used King LED, Viparspectra, and now Phlizon LED lights (often shunned as “cheap Chinese lights”). My current lights- I bought 2 2000 watt natural sunlight design heat sink lights drawing 220w each from the wall (which is what matters the most, by far)- cost about $200 each. I previously used King LED 1500w (about $200), and a Viparspectra 600w (about $175), and the G8 red light (about $180). So, for my past few grows I used lights pulling a total of about 550 watts from the wall, and in my 4x4 tent, I pulled 17, 17, and 18oz of premium quality dense and super frosty buds. The point is, you do not need to spend $500-$1000 or more on a freaking LED light for good results. Don’t buy the hype; You can get good quality diodes and good wattage draw from the wall pretty cheap now. Wattage from the wall is what matters, if you want yield and dense, good quality buds.

More important? Genetics, genetics, genetics!

If they worked so well why did you buy new ones?