Advice from experienced L.E.D growers

rickymac21

rickymac21

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I'm simply downsizing my grow and will be constructing a 2'x4'x7' cabinetc to flower in.

The only real question I have is simple.
What is the best L.E.D fixture i can buy for that space? Personally I'd rather go overkill than under do it. At the same time I want to maintain temperatures easily, although I will be running sealed with co2 supresented via tank. That will allow me to run slightly higher temp than normal. I can figure out the environmental control aspect, but I haven't used or seen many l.e.d lights. I just read about the ever changing technology so it's confusing as to what really is top notch.

Thanks in advance.
 
nevergoodenuf

nevergoodenuf

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No, this isn't what you want. Those guys are are thieving lyres. Look at the output. 10 lumen per watt. That is useless. You would be better off with led light bulbs @ 90+ lumen per watt.
For a quality light, you should look at Pacific light Concepts, Johnson grow lights, and stay away from any light that has a higher wattage in it's name, but the actual draw is half. That is old led advertising tactics. All LEDs have a range they work in. So, they use to add up how many , say, 3 watt leds they are using and call it that. When they are actually only running them at 1.4 or so watts. If the light company is still doing this, run away as fast as you can. This type of advertising of LEDs has
 
rickymac21

rickymac21

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nevergoodenuf said:
No, this isn't what you want. Those guys are are thieving lyres. Look at the output. 10 lumen per watt. That is useless. You would be better off with led light bulbs @ 90+ lumen per watt.
For a quality light, you should look at Pacific light Concepts, Johnson grow lights, and stay away from any light that has a higher wattage in it's name, but the actual draw is half. That is old led advertising tactics. All LEDs have a range they work in. So, they use to add up how many , say, 3 watt leds they are using and call it that. When they are actually only running them at 1.4 or so watts. If the light company is still doing this, run away as fast as you can. This type of advertising of LEDs has
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There it is. I've been reading about those particular style of l.e.d's but had not seen a fixture i can buy that uses them, until now. All I was seeing were DIY threads using those cree cxa3070s. Evidently they are the way to go, so thank you very much kind sir for the help.
 
rickymac21

rickymac21

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So here are 3 options from the websites you provided me.
1st. The Johnson cx6.
http://johnsongrowlights.com/index.php?id_product=10&controller=product

2nd. Tasty led. T3 2100
http://www.tastyled.com/product-p/t3-2100.htm

3rd. P.L.C. Cx300
https://www.pacificlightconcepts.com/product/cx300/

I feel as if the tasty l.e.d light would best suit my 2'x3' footprint, but if I can keep the P.L.C. or Johnson light at a relatively similar distance from the canopy as the t32100, then either one of those would be obvious choice for sheer light distribution.

Any votes on this? I'm leaning towards the Pacific lighting cx300
 
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