lighting questions, currently have 10 600's, considering swapping out to 1k vented

I currently have 8 600's with adjust-a-wings for flower and 2 600's for veg. I have a 24k mini split for cooling. All my lighting was using adjust-a-wings. I just swapped out my 2 veg 600 wings with vented hoods. I dropped 5 degrees in my veg room. My veg room is currently running at 77 degrees and my flower room is running at 79 degrees.

I am considering going from the 8 600's with wings to 6 1k with vented hoods (possibly 8 1k's). I am curious how much you lose going with hoods through glass over just adjust-a-wings? Will it be a decent gain going to the 1k's in vented hoods? I am looking for tighter buds and more crystal and deeper penetration. I don't think I will be able to pull off 6 1k's with just my single 24k mini split unless I go vented. Also, how many 1k's can I vent per run? What is the max number of hoods I can run together for each exhaust fan?

thanks all for any input.

Think about going 600s. air cooled 1000s get hot even in a hood I bought one just to test it and next to the six im running i like the six way more but im not running a/c im trying to run as efficient as possible i just ordered my new 10 in max fan so by next week i will have 3x 600s and 1 1000 until i can throw 6x600s up... but the 1000's get MUCH hotter than the 600s

jtrey said:

Think about going 600s. air cooled 1000s get hot even in a hood I bought one just to test it and next to the six im running i like the six way more but im not running a/c im trying to run as efficient as possible i just ordered my new 10 in max fan so by next week i will have 3x 600s and 1 1000 until i can throw 6x600s up... but the 1000's get MUCH hotter than the 600s

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I am already running 600s, 8 of them in flower and 2 in veg. I am wanting the benefits of the 1ks. I am mainly just curious as to how much light you lose going through glass with a vented hood compared to adjust a wings. Thanks.

if you can keep your glass clean hardly any light will be lost either way if you switch to air cooled lights 600s or 1000s it will help keep your a/c from working as hard