Or you could help me and tell me what I’m doing wrong maybe?
Have you tried using the “search“ option? Type in LED vs HPS. There’s enough reading for you for a week at least.
It was like this for many years and still is so on Amazon. Dont buy any lights there, they are 99.9% shit. Most people use white led lights now, and the tendency is to quote the actual power draw, although amazon seems to be still in fairy land. And no, no matter how many good reviews they have on amazon, theyre not.
That’s about right. LED lights only use a watt each. The 1000w is comparing PAR level with a HID grow light. I have had amazing success with LED grow lights, but your going to get a lot of people who won’t use anything but HPS. My LED says 1500w and it draws almost 300w from the wall. I have to say my plants are benefiting well from this grow light. It’s personal preference in my opinion.
Trying to stay under 500 if i can. Im only growing for myself so i dont need ginormous yeilds but im not turning down more if you get me.
Yeah I’m looking at the specs and the details of them on amazon and some of them look like they could be really good they have great reviews but everyone is telling me that they are shit so now I’m scared. I was gonna go with Amazon because I have prime and it can be here in two days. I have plants that are going into flowering and I don’t wanna fuck this up I need them sooner than later
The simple answer is yes, the HPS/MH systems pull the wattage they claim while LED's try to be deceptive. What LED marketing people do is add up the max voltage for each led and than claim that is the number when in reality it is a bold faced lie. So if they have 100 x 10w leds they will claim 1000 watts when in reality it only draws 150 watts and never drives the led's to their max. When an HPS manufacturer says 600 or 1000 watts their lights actually draw that much power. The key thing to remember when looking at LED's is to look at the power draw, not the marketing number they put on the box.
So in your grow tent is it 2 plants per led at about 300? I’ve use HPS before in my first grow and that grow was a lot simpler. I didn’t necessarily have a tent had a very small budget but I can say I’ve had less problems. I really wanted to try an LED this time because I do remember the HPS did send my light bill pretty high and it was hot. What is the name of the one you used?
Thank you! This is what i was trying to figure out when comparing!!
Don't be scared, just do your research. The fact is in a 2x4 tent you have 8 square feet and you want a min of around 35 watts per square foot. That's only 280 watts. My first plant was grown under an Amazon LED which most refer to as a blurple light. It was listed as 1200 watts and only had a power draw of 150 watts. I grew a Northern Lights Auto in the same space you have, it gave me 3.5 oz of decent bud. 2 of those lights would have given me 2 decent plants and at 3.5 oz a piece would have been fine. The reason I upgraded was the bud was not as dense at I would like. It was still nice, just not the best I could make it. I moved up to MH/HPS light and for my next grow I have an HLG 600 which arrives today. The HLG is a good upper end LED which pulls 600 watts and will produce less heat than my 1000 watt MH/HPS. Here is a pic of my first plant grown under a my blurple. To me this shows definitively you can grow a decent plant under a blurple, there are just better lights that would give better results.
Nioce! Thank you. I will add them to the compare list
