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It all comes down to the efficiency of HID and LED. What happens with each watt of energy consumed. HID lights give off more light watt per watt than LED's (although that gap has closed dramatically and some LED prototypes are now more effiecient). The big issue is usable light. HID's give...

Bang on the money John. I think a lot of that was the fault of the LED industry and unrealistic claims on performance and especially penetration. No matter how many hundreds of watts your LED panels are, if they are 1W LED's (especially your reds and blues) they aren't gonna do dick for...

When the feds started raiding local food exchange organizations run by people who want to trade home grown food using the "domestic terrorism" clause of the Homeland Security Act I really figured that would be the last straw for the people......but apparenlty not yet!

Actually my suggestion is a lot like hooking up a 1000W ballast. It works great but it can kill you so be careful and understand the risk..... ..... but thanks for trolling. If people want to try an organophosphate but looking for something a little safer I'd recommend Vapona NoPest Strips...

Not sure how you are set up but you still have 5x180W LED's so they are going to pump a fair bit of heat so just work on containing it, close the space off and maybe insulate. Heat rises so make sure you have something above your lights to trap the heat. I wouldn't mess with a kerosene heater...

Well not to perpetuate the animosity, and ledbudguy you could sure work on your delivery :-) but when I was in the industry we used to order 10,000 LED's at a time and we couldn't buy 3W CREE for $3 a piece, I'm pretty sure couldn't even but 2W for that price. I remember the 3W CREE's in some of...

There is an Organophosphate Insecticide available commercially called Monitor 4. In western canada if affectionately goes by the name Stink Bomb at the grow stores and they ususally keep it behind the counter. It smells like nothing you can imagine and will make you gag. The plus side is it...

Looking good amigo! Was reading your post in another journal and saw you were talking about Digi-key. I used to be in commercial electronics and we used to order from them so just wondering if you have a background in commercial electronics too. Interesting if we both are from that industry...

I have some commercial experience fighting mites and the only thing I ever found that worked was a commercial organophosphate insecticide called Monitor 4. If you can find it, it works like nothing else. Some people call it Stink Bomb and if it is actual commercial grade Monitor 4 (there are a...

You can check my sig for my journal

Got my journal up and running and looks like we have the same taste in panels and I feel even better about my choice looking at how your plants are performing :-) Check my sig and see what you think of my show and any feedback you can give me on how high those lights should be would be...

I got my panel off www.ledgrowlightsdirect.com and buying something that expensive of a web-based company can be alarming but I emailed a bunch of companies and these guys could at least answer my tech questions and didn't just blow sales speak up my ass. Price was good. They use Bridgelux...

For reference that's a 4x4 flood and drain table they are sitting in, those are 1 gallon pots and they will be transplanted to square 3 gallon pots in another 10-ish days.

Yo Hud here is the link you asked me to post to the journal I just started today https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/386508-hempstar-3-stage-led-grow.html#post4934873 IMHO you def need to get the temp up in your LED chamber. Plants metabolism is very temp sensitive. Basically lower...

Okay haven't quite got the dowload sorting figured so first pic is day they were planted.

So everyone starts with a plan but good chance I'll adapt it along the way so anything I say can't be used against me if I change my mind :o I may have previous experience of about 10 years growing in buckets, flood and drain and dirt and always with HID's although always big on efficient...

What are the Blackstars worth? Been searching Blackstar and Lighthouse and cant seem to find a website to get the actual manufacturers specs. From what I can tell they are 2W led chipsets and 90 degree lens angle and tri band spectrum. Personally I would look for 3w chipsets and 60 degree...

http://www.hydroponicshut.com/pro-gr...row-light.html Was just looking on their website and found it interesting that they only list the white LED's as CREE. I would think that if the reds and blues were CREE also they would make a point of pushing that. Also notice that the lens angle is 90...

I vegged under Procyons a few years ago and I'm inclined to agree with the statment about huge fan leaves and lush green with the LED's. I ran HID's for about 6 years and the plants just never looked as good and I don't think that was because I was screwing up :-) If you've ever spent any time...

I wouldnt worry about your panel Hud. I bought 2 Procyon 100's a couple years back and although they are super high quality units the cost was completely out to lunch so I got jacked the other way. They were only red and blue and very heavy on the reds. The plants they grew were super healthy...