Tim Fox
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If you y don't o to diy (do it yourself) and you only y want to buy a light panel , then look at optic lighting or area 51, they y are the only people building grow lights using cobs
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Don Geno
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For cheap generic leds mars hydro does justice light source is very important but first and foremost is the nutrition and health of plants your nutrients must be dialed in and temperatures must be perfect I believe this is more of a percentage in yield per plant then lights I have seen great growers rock cfls and have big yields its the grower and strain your equipment is key element but all in all if everyone did hypothetically have everything the same except for growing tactics everyone would have different weights we all cant afford 1000$ + leds diy are cool get it how you live growers preference outweighs it all 
REALSTYLES
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No it doesn't Mars light or junk take it from me I own them but I make my own lights now and there is no comparisonFor cheap generic leds mars hydro does justice light source is very important but first and foremost is the nutrition and health of plants your nutrients must be dialed in and temperatures must be perfect I believe this is more of a percentage in yield per plant then lights I have seen great growers rock cfls and have big yields its the grower and strain your equipment is key element but all in all if everyone did hypothetically have everything the same except for growing tactics everyone would have different weights we all cant afford 1000$ + leds diy are cool get it how you live growers preference outweighs it all
Don Geno
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Are you entered in the party cup comp? Love to see what your lights can do
and its all growers preference whatever suites you 
and i was stating in the previous post its more about the grower for beginners mars do well for the price you pay without the hassle of building your own if looking for something cheap having all dialed in on a small set up it performs well not the best of the world but good for what it is
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Tim Fox
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I get that there are people who either dont know how to build a DIY , or they dont want to take the time to learn, I found the DIY threads were so informative and with some time spent looking and reading, asking a few questions, I think just about anyone can build a DIY light!!! especially if they use the cob holders, no soldering, no need to drill and tap if you use self tapping screws or drill all the way thru and use nut and bolt,Are you entered in the party cup comp? Love to see what your lights can do
Sometimes I think CFL growers just dont want to look past using a household socket and bulb, and they are typically very very small growers and need good stealth, i get that, but they could also benefit from using small vero lights instead,,
my Cree cobs pull half the power of my mars 300, they put out 2 X's the light power and less than half the heat,
If I run my mars light I have to turn the fan up so high to overcome the heat issue that I blow my stealth cover
1000's of dollars in leds?,, come on you can assemble the latest 4 cob cxb3070 fixture for around $250 bucks, and it will BLOW AWAY even the largest mars light,
just sayin
Don Geno
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Arent you in the party cup comp? Love to see what your bringing to the table
Tim Fox
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not in the party cup, my grow box is in flower right now on day 11 with a 2 plant scrog,
here is how it looked this morning as I checked the soil moisture and raised the cxa3070 cobs up to 12 inches over the canopy,, I find it really amusing that I am using the mars 300 light ( turned off of course ) simply as a housing to hang my DIY cree cobs off of and both ends,, so I bought a 100 dollar cob hanger,, I have a friend I might give it too
Tim Fox
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Sure thing, I saw a couple of those red cups this week and thought, no way man,, they are small,, lolGood lookin plants man im starting over since I had to chop the other down cuz of an inspectionstick around the cup comp thread and see how it turnsnout
Don Geno
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Ha ha yea it just started
Budzilla85
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Hi everyone I am looking in to getting the Mars LEDs I use a Amazon aeroponic system that I highly recommend best system I have ever used in a 1m x 1m x 1.6m tent with 2 x 250 CFLs full canna nutrients with a home made hot box ( insulated wooden box with a oil filled radiator and fan in it ) that I run from outside my tent through the air intake hole and it dose the job well but CFLs need replacing so time to upgrade and after reading the success of #oilmaker68 and #wazzerX marshydros are getting ordered but will I be better off ordering 2 300w or 1 600w i will be growing 4/8 plants at a time as i use bud for pain relief
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i have a 1.2 x 1.2m space, would i be better off with a Mars II Reflector 600w or 2 of the Mars Hydro 300w panels?
There's so many different Mars Hydros!
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1.2x1.2m is pretty big, my growing area is 1.2x0.65m and I feel that the two 300W panels are "just right" for this area. Mind you I am not flowering but use the area for vegging. Otherwise I'd always go with separate lights, it gives more flexibility. With an 1.2x1.2m area you might want to consider possibly 3x of the 300W lights and then hang three of them like this | | | | | | or maybe in a triangle shape or something.
TBH while it's true there are different MH lights, "in essence" they're the same, say if a panel uses 5W LEDs. The difference is then merely in features, like veg/flower switch, reflectors etc.
i have a 1.2 x 1.2m space, would i be better off with a Mars II Reflector 600w or 2 of the Mars Hydro 300w panels?
There's so many different Mars Hydros!
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1.2x1.2m is pretty big, my growing area is 1.2x0.65m and I feel that the two 300W panels are "just right" for this area. Mind you I am not flowering but use the area for vegging. Otherwise I'd always go with separate lights, it gives more flexibility. With an 1.2x1.2m area you might want to consider possibly 3x of the 300W lights and then hang three of them like this | | | | | | or maybe in a triangle shape or something.
TBH while it's true there are different MH lights, "in essence" they're the same, say if a panel uses 5W LEDs. The difference is then merely in features, like veg/flower switch, reflectors etc.
littlejacob
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Bonjour
Why is there still peoples using mars panel?
Don't you see the many advertiser for very efficient cxb cob lights here on riu?
It is not too expensive and would provide you more than gpw...I never saw a mars panel pull that much...maybe 0.7gpw...like a hid!
Monos panel are old tech...even with good diodes...which is not the case for mars panel...!
I currently have 5 plants in 3gl in a 3.5x3.5x4.5 box split in 4 with a cxb 3590 3500ºk 36V CD @1400mA (55w) over each quarter (220w) and it is perfect...let's see how many gpw a 350 $ diy panel can produce!?!...4 weeks to go!
Have a great day ★
Why is there still peoples using mars panel?
Don't you see the many advertiser for very efficient cxb cob lights here on riu?
It is not too expensive and would provide you more than gpw...I never saw a mars panel pull that much...maybe 0.7gpw...like a hid!
Monos panel are old tech...even with good diodes...which is not the case for mars panel...!
I currently have 5 plants in 3gl in a 3.5x3.5x4.5 box split in 4 with a cxb 3590 3500ºk 36V CD @1400mA (55w) over each quarter (220w) and it is perfect...let's see how many gpw a 350 $ diy panel can produce!?!...4 weeks to go!
Have a great day ★