Not from what I've seen in some journals. Watt for watt, I'm getting a much better yield with LEDS. I'm avoiding power usage spikes, heat and risk of fire. I'm barely pulling 4.5 amps for the entire closet, directly from the light socket with an adapter. You can't beat that. A lot depends on yield, genetics, how much wattage did you have? A simple 60w UFO ain't going to do it. You have to spend the money up front and hit those plants with all you can reasonably give them.i have a 700 watt 5band led and it is an INSANE !!! veg unit,,the best!! but i found my flowers didnt yield like they should,, are you finding that?
LOL... This has been a piece meal operation with many eBay vendors participating. The second over head is on it's way and should be here Monday, which is no big deal, as the seedlings will be under flouros the first 2 weeks. As for cooling, even though I don't think I need it with a LED and flouro combo room, I do have 6" duct intake with diffuser at floor level, and a wall pass through fan at the ceiling level exhausting the air. This results in negative pressure and the air is exhausted into my Master bathroom, which has 2 negative ion generators running and generating over 4 million negative ions per hour. I'm also running a negative ion generator next to Master bedroom door. If odor atoms get passed all my measures, I'll get some ONA gel.wait, you've got side lighting, one light for the top and just got seeds? wouldn't you want to have everything together? and what are you doing for cooling and res cooling? it seems like you're only half way there bro... nice setup, though, the parts that are there...
So, you're not in the US then I assume.I'm avoiding narco choppers from seeing a hot room on the view screen and using about a 1/5th of the power and only generating light that the plants can use.
Thanks for the kind words, but if you are not going to go with quality LED's, please get CFL's or Flouro's instead. I would hate to see another LED trash post simply because the LEDs came from Sesame Street. I'm doing this grow and hoping to have something to hush up the 1000w hot closet growers.Getting antsy. Eager to see what a real LED setup can do. Experimenting myself with small trained grows under far less wattage. I don't think the 4 panels are enough to flower proper though so I may cave and add 2x 125watt cfl's top center and angle the panels on either side as canopy lighting. If all goes well with the test plants in veg, I'll start a blue mystic mama while I sort out the kinks in the flowering area.
Keep it funky man. Can't wait to see some sprouts.
My actual location is no one's business but my own. How you could come up with that conclusion based on a statement regarding a narco chopper with heat detection equipment is beyond me. There are plenty of places besides the US that a hot grow room detected by a chopper would not be in one's best interests.So, you're not in the US then I assume.
Just think if they have to use the helicopter you're pretty much shit up a creek without a paddle because they already know what you're doing. Here in the US that's illegal unless they have a warrant. And the old saying is you make an ass out of you and me.My actual location is no one's business but my own. How you could come up with that conclusion based on a statement regarding a narco chopper with heat detection equipment is beyond me. There are plenty of places besides the US that a hot grow room detected by a chopper would not be in one's best interests.
Care full what you assume, as the first three letters of that word could end up being overly descriptive of you.
I appreciate your taking part in my thread, however I'm not here to discuss politics or police tactics. I also do not appreciate know it alls that pop into other's grow threads and drop their know it all opinions. If the police have a reason to be flying over your hood while going from point A to point B and your grow room shows up on their screen, you are screwed. First they are going to put you under surveillance. Then they are going to go through your trash looking for evidence. (Supreme Court has already ruled, you take it to curb, it is public domain) The fact is, your heat signature drew undue attention to yourself and now the police are looking for you to slip up. They call it stealth for a reason. Here are some other posts that you may just want to read and look at. Do not believe that the Bill of Rights protects you while committing crimes.Just think if they have to use the helicopter you're pretty much shit up a creek without a paddle because they already know what you're doing. Here in the US that's illegal unless they have a warrant. And the old saying is you make an ass out of you and me.
Might want to take a break and then chill.
you very right in what your sayin.....on another note the room looks great mate, you've put alot of effort and planning i see....greatI appreciate your taking part in my thread, however I'm not here to discuss politics or police tactics. I also do not appreciate know it alls that pop into other's grow threads and drop their know it all opinions. If the police have a reason to be flying over your hood while going from point A to point B and your grow room shows up on their screen, you are screwed. First they are going to put you under surveillance. Then they are going to go through your trash looking for evidence. (Supreme Court has already ruled, you take it to curb, it is public domain) The fact is, your heat signature drew undue attention to yourself and now the police are looking for you to slip up. They call it stealth for a reason. Here are some other posts that you may just want to read and look at. Do not believe that the Bill of Rights protects you while committing crimes.
http://www.420magazine.com/forums/frequently-asked-questions/82822-question-police-thermal-imaging-camera.html
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/217425-how-police-ir-helicopter-functions.html
If the police are looking for a suspect at night in your neighborhood and are using the FLIR to locate them and your grow room shows up, you could possible be screwed. That is why it is one of MY concerns. The fact that you don't care is your business. Please keep your business out of my thread and not turn it into a legal tit for tat discussion.
These threads don't mean anything to me. Now if you googled some articles that have some facts based off of previous cases, you might be more persuasive. The second article tells you to not vent your air out of the house because flir does not pick up the lights just the exhausted heat. The cases that have proven the flir is not imposing on any rights have determined that any air vented outside the house was not part of your privacy because you didn't try to keep it private by not venting outside.
No worries. Your apology is humbly accepted. In my mind, it is better to be safe, than sorry. I understand the warrant requirements, but I also know from lawyer friends that cops cannot be trusted to tell the truth and to follow the law to do their job. Surely you have been to traffic court and had a or heard a cop tell the judge something you know to be false.These threads don't mean anything to me. Now if you googled some articles that have some facts based off of previous cases, you might be more persuasive. The second article tells you to not vent your air out of the house because flir does not pick up the lights just the exhausted heat. The cases that have proven the flir is not imposing on any rights have determined that any air vented outside the house was not part of your privacy because you didn't try to keep it private by not venting outside.
So all in all, don't vent outside and you should be good. I do understand that it never hurts to be over cautious, I'm not trying to be rude or anything and if I came off that way, sorry.