Lighting the space, not the plants - is this enough ?

Huktonponics

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Hey folks. Im redoing my my tent and have also started remounting some Cobs ( Citizen CLU048 1212 ) that I've been meaning to do for a while.

I have a 10x5 tent with 15 pots in on a modular flood & drain system, 3 rows of 5.

Its basically wall to wall in there.

I've got 36 cobs on 6 meanwell 320H 1400b drivers and 2 x chinesium 480w lm301b boards.

I " was " running 4 x 480w chinesium boards in there but I wanted to sling these cobs on some T slot frames and use them with 2 of the boards.

Frames are 1m x 1m with 18 cobs on each. So 2 cob outside edges and the 2 boards in the middle.

Is this a little overkill ? I won't be running everything balls to the wall, but I wanted to get to all the corners and edges next run.

Cobs will be 3 rows of 6 with them staggered to the edges rather than equal spacing along the rails.
 
It’s only over kill is you run them cranked up.

those citizen 1212s are going to run 50watts

2760watts total. Puts you at 55w/sqft.
Which is very controllable with a dimmer knob.

I have 900 watts of cobs in my 3x3. That’s over 100w/sqft. I just dim it down.
I dial in with a light meter. The whole tent is very even PPFD.
 
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