Finally got a few of my new leds up

Dividedsky

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So last fall I bought 6 of the growers choice roi-e720 watt leds...anyways still kept running my HPS but decided it was time to throw up a few of the leds. I have about a quarter of my flower room full with plants so put up 2 of the leds so far. I will fill the rest of the flower room with plants in the next 3-4 weeks as well as hang the other 4-720w leds.
Anyway upgrading and redesigning is a grind...thought I was going to have to move back a wall to fit the leds cause these things are huge but ended up having to redirect my house water line that was causing the obstruction. Had to cut and break the old water line. So I got rid of it and upgraded the water line to pex/pvc so line is more flexible...my r/o filter line also runs from here. Plants I have in the flower room now are gushmints, grandi guava, and tiki rum cake. This pic is just 2 of the 720w units side by side so you can get an idea of how big these are, I underestimated the size even with measurements, lol.
 

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Playk328 said:
I re read your lighting again.. HOLY HELL..

How big is this room?

Are you running all 6 of the 700+ watt leds in this room?

This room looks smaller then my room but wow that lighting is where Im trying to get my wife to sign off on..

Fek me, 4200+ watts of LED's? Sounds like that could pull some serious weight.
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So flower room is about 9' x 15'... I am actually debating on just hanging 5 of the 720w leds in the flower room instead of all 6, so 2 on each end of the room and 1 in the middle. So if I do hang all 6- it will be- 2 rows of 3 and that would be tight...I would have to install a bi fold door and take my regular door down, just to make it easier to get in and out and so there is no door swinging. Also If I hang 5 total in the flower room I would use the other 720w led in my 5x5 veg tent and crank it at like 25%. That way I could take down some of my t5 lights I run in veg. For my veg areas I'm usually running around 28-30 4ft- t5 so it uses quite a bit of power and using a 720w led in veg would cut back on that-I will eventually switch all my veg area to led but have to admit I love vegging still with t5s. My veg space is a 4x4 tent and a 5x5 tent, as well as a metal shelving/rack for cuts and germin'/small plants. One thing is I'm liking the idea of a running a bit higher temps with LEDs in flower than I would with my HID...since I run a 2-ton mini split a/c in flower the unit won't be having to work as hard as it did when I was running HPS.

Nothing ever goes as planned, of course last night I see a small puddle on the floor. So my condensate pump was not draining properly, the condensate pump is under my ac and drains water from dehu and mini split out the room. I took it down and cleaned, checked the flow which was working properly and it works but still seems to back up...cant figure it out and my condensate pump is only a couple years old so shouldn't be having any issues...might have to go pick up a new one today..
 
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Dividedsky said:
So flower room is about 9' x 15'... I am actually debating on just hanging 5 of the 720w leds in the flower room instead of all 6, so 2 on each end of the room and 1 in the middle. So if I do hang all 6- it will be- 2 rows of 3 and that would be tight...I would have to install a bi fold door and take my regular door down, just to make it easier to get in and out and so there is no door swinging. Also If I hang 5 total in the flower room I would use the other 720w led in my 5x5 veg tent and crank it at like 25%. That way I could take down some of my t5 lights I run in veg. For my veg areas I'm usually running around 28-30 4ft- t5 so it uses quite a bit of power and using a 720w led in veg would cut back on that-I will eventually switch all my veg area to led but have to admit I love vegging still with t5s. My veg space is a 4x4 tent and a 5x5 tent, as well as a metal shelving/rack for cuts and germin'/small plants. One thing is I'm liking the idea of a running a bit higher temps with LEDsin flower than I would with my HID and since I run a 2-ton mini split a/c in flower the unit won't be having to work as hard as it did when I was running HPS.

Nothing ever goes as planned, of course last night I see a small puddle on the floor. So my condensate pump was not draining properly, the condensate pump is under my ac and drains water from dehu and mini split out the room. I took it down and cleaned, checked the flow which was working properly and it works but still seems to back up...cant figure it out and my condensate pump is only a couple years old so shouldn't be having any issues...might have to go pick up a new one today..
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Yeah that is a lot of light..

I have a 10x13x7.5 Im building now, I was going to go with the 450w's and even then I'll be lucky to get away with more then 3 before the wife really starts bitching..

I would think 4 of those 700's you have would put a lot of light in that room of yours, 6 I would think could be overkill? perhaps not but that is going to be one bright ass room with all of those going.
 
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Maybe try 4 of those and then use the other 2 for veg? or like you said 5 of them and the other for veg.
 
Dividedsky

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Playk328 said:
Maybe try 4 of those and then use the other 2 for veg? or like you said 5 of them and the other for veg.
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5 will be perfect, length of the room is actually closer to 16'...5 will be good and plants will have room to stretch. By the way I going to keep these lights dimmed at 75% for the time being
 
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Playk328 said:
Maybe try 4 of those and then use the other 2 for veg? or like you said 5 of them and the other for veg.
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When I was going over the room last night definitely was thinking hanging 6 of them was just too much though, plus I wasn't to get at least half of my veg area under leds
 
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For sure..

My room is about the same size and Im just going to rock a few 450's when I get it done. Im sure those 5 700ws will still be very bright lol.
 
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My room tho will be underlit, nothing I can do about this..

I have to stay as low on that Hydro bill as I can, our rates are crazy high.
 
Dividedsky

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Yup condensate pump keeps overflowing....and it overflowed with just my dehu line running to it. No a/c was on because lights were off, lights just clicked on and sure enough it was overflowing. Strange this never happened before and everything seems to be fine..cleaned the gunk out and flow is working properly as well as motor.
 

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Damn having a stressful day when I went to dump the condensate pump forgot to unplug the electric cord before I pulled out the ac line and the condensate pump shot a peter north stream of water up in the air and at one of the leds. Froze for 2 seconds then quickly unplugged it. I wiped down light carefully and it seems fine, good thing the GC 720 is water resistant. Weird though the fact that the water shot up when I pulled out the ac line show the pump is draining, maybe the ac line is backed up.
 
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Dividedsky said:
Damn having a stressful day when I went to dump the condensate pump forgot to unplug the electric cord before I pulled out the ac line and the condensate pump shot a peter north stream of water up in the air and at one of the leds. Froze for 2 seconds then quickly unplugged it. I wiped down light carefully and it seems fine, good thing the GC 720 is water resistant. Weird though the fact that the water shot up when I pulled out the ac line show the pump is draining, maybe the ac line is backed up.
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Bro your setting up a professional grow in there, you should probably get a controller system to run everything for you! You should get a small RO system for your water line.
 
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Drasik said:
Bro your setting up a professional grow in there, you should probably get a controller system to run everything for you! You should get a small RO system for your water line.
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Ya I have an r/o system connected to the water line, its all hooked up neatly on the outside wall of the flower room. Ya I will pick up on of the master controller sometime in the next few months, I got everything pretty buttoned up, all the light sare on a titan light controller that is wired to it own 30 amp circuit I had put in by an electrician. Got the condensate pump problem fixed it was just a faulty extension cord that was giving me the issue.. go figure.
 
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