Rocket Soul
Well-Known Member
Yes you can, but you need those watts spread ideally for that to work well. If you have all of them in the middle then you lose a lot of light to walls thru high hanging height. You can settle for lower intensity in sides and corners.
650w of light divided over 4-6 single hanging boards would do well in that space. Maybe if you had a warehouse with multiple 650s hanging high you could also do it.
Below is the parmap of the hlg 550: ideally you want +700. Already below 700 in the sides of a 3x3 section. The 650 bring more watts to the same formfactor: a 5x5 at 30" would look similar.
Also note on their web that the 650 is actually 630w.
One of the main reasons people do better with leds than hps is due to being able to spread the light out better, for an even "right under the bulb" intensity all over your cannopy. The 550/650 dont have this spread, but the scorpion does but then were at 1400$.
Based on OPs requirements this seems like a no brainer, dont understand what the fuss is about.
Dont fall victim to the "everyone must use my light cause i love it"-fallacy; im sure it rocks your 4x4 but a 5x5 is +50% more space.
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