Mars 1200 to Vero 29 Conversion | 3000k

Greetings,

Recently I decided to convert my Mars II 1200, which pulls around 520w give or take.

So what I did was replace the drivers with 2 Meanwell 2.1A Drivers running Vero 29 Gen 7 at 3000k CCT.

Will be running it in a 3 x 3.

As for reflectors I tried them, BUT it gave some serious dark spots on the outer edges so I removed them and I am much more impressed with the coverage in this small space.

I am pulling about 480W of COB which is around 505 or so total with driver.
My PPFD is around 966PPFD with about 20 PAR Watss a SQ/F.

This will be much better for my plants as I can actually see the damm things and diagnose issues if any.

Here are some pictures below ( sorry for the shit quality, waiting for a new battery when the Wife gets home).
Color is a bit off, they are a bit warmer but no where near as orange as a HPS.
Will upload some higher quality later on.
I did keep 2 original drivers to run the fans.
Also took the glass off for obvious reasons.

Any questions just ask.

Trippy



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Nice job man! Now you'll get results from the chunk of aluminum some call mars.
Your ppfd should be killer.....you think about adding CO2?

BM9AGS said:

Nice job man! Now you'll get results from the chunk of aluminum some call mars.
Your ppfd should be killer.....you think about adding CO2?

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I had good results with it.
Better than my HPS, however it was overpriced, but I had no idea at the time.
PPFD is killer!
I plan to add C02 for sure.

Mars seems to put an unnecessary amount of Thermal paste, I got like a 1/3 Cup of it...


Will be putting up a journal from seed to harvest to compare my findings regarding growth(running coco, auto irrigation)

Thansk for checking it out. Thought it was a good idea, plus I hated the blurple color, was annoying.
I can say for sure the light intensity is much higher. I dont want to look at this light, blinding.

That light is a BEAST. Those stock fans keep it cool enough?

Airwalker16 said:

That light is a BEAST. Those stock fans keep it cool enough?

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The stock fans are garbage...
Waiting on Noctua fans. One is already blown( not sure how long its been that way).
yeah its a BEAST for sure. Will be nice to grow with it.