highdave
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Thanks man. I'm sure you will love these lights.
Lec 315 anyone pulling weight?
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GroErr
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I don't think you can go wrong with any of these units that run the Elite Agro 315's. Ballast efficiency and reflectors can certainly make a difference but idk that it would be any more than +- 5%. Any of them will easily pull 1/gpw+ imo if you're looking for weight and give you top-shelf/quality bud to boot. Pic below is a week old, 3x3.5' footprint, 9x 2gal in a pheno hunt which I would have been happy to average 1 oz. per plant. I'm about to start pulling some tomorrow and the smallest plant will yield 1 oz dry., more likely average 1.3 - 1.5 oz. which will bring the run to 1gpw+ in a pheno hunt with a 1 1/2 year old bulb. No worries, 4x 315 = 1260g or 2.8 lbs per run with any decent producing strain, 1.2-.1.5 gpw is relatively easy with a producer
Big smo
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I spent hours last night reading all the different forum threads. Everyone is concerned with saving 50 cents or maximizing on that +-5% it seems. Now I think back and say why did I continue. You are absolutely right grow err about the lights from what I have read, they do seem to be a great advancement in lighting and your plants are proof of this. They look great, but don't really look ready to harvest
GroErr
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Yeah, not enough difference to worry about imo, environment and grow methods will play a bigger part when there's such a small gain one way or another with different ballasts driving them.
You're right on the timing, keep in mind that's a week old pic. There's only 2x phenos out of the 9 ready this weekend. The rest will go anywhere from 5 days to more than a week for a few of them.
Budley Doright
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Ummm you sure about that? Can you get the specs on such a beast. Honestly I've never seen one that will convert a standard 120 circuit to a standard 240.
GroErr
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Don't know that you'd ever have to step up as any ballasts I've seen that run the 315's support 220/240v. The Sun Systems 120v rig does it in reverse. It's a 240v ballast, the step down converter allows it to operate at 120v (it's about a 50w overhead hit). Both the 240v ballast and step down converter are included in the 120v Sun Systems package. So if you only have 120v available and bought a rig with 240v-only ballast, the step down converter is an option, with a cost of ~50w overhead.
Budley Doright
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Yes easy to go from 240 to 120, not so easy to go from 120 to 240 as far as I know. Read the specs on the step up and pretty sure its for a different setup and not household voltage and phase.
rkymtnman
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hey budley, missed this post. here ya go: this isn't a top notch one but you get the point.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Voltage-Transformer-Step-Up-Down-Converter-500w-110-120-To-220-240-Volt-/231890898090?hash=item35fdc64caa:g:0rAAAOSwVghXEtA2
Budley Doright
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Well I'll be fucked
who ever heard of such a magical box of wonderment lol. I do apologize for my ignorance 
. I'll have to look into this more.....I'm intrigued .
rkymtnman
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yep. i had a issue with not enough 240v. was gonna buy the kit anyway and pay $90 for a good xformer and do it that way. ended up having 2 amps to spare for it on 240v.Well I'll be fucked
for 2 hundy, if you have a good vertical reflector, the kit for LEC is worht every penny
rkymtnman
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they definitely work.
Big smo
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I Really wanted the cmh to flower but I ended up going with 3 Amare tech se-450's. Actually today I stopped by my local shop and they had one hydrofarm left so I grabbed it for veggng. Prices here are dirt cheap, complete with a bulb of choice for 350. Timing got messed up with a room change so I'm actually vegging with the Amare and soon after will be vegging more with the cmh. I hear great things with flowering but better with veg
