Two 1000 watt HPS lights in a 10x12 room; best way to position for max coverage?

Hi, all.
I have two 1000 watt HPS lights I want to use in a 12x11 room I am getting going. -Where is the best place to hang these baby's? In the center 3 feet from each opposing wall facing each other? Or would like 3 feet from each opposing corner facing each other give me better light coverage?

Thanx in advance; J.D.
 

djburns1

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I use a few 1000's my self in a room about the same size as yours. How mine are set up is dictated by the need to run air-cooled hoods so they are end to end 3 feet apart and on a light rail (mover) that moves them 2 feet in each direction thus covers the 12 ft really well. I built 3 trays that are 4' X 5' and have what I feel is great coverage. I grow in canna coco, use canna nutes by the book and my recent grow of Blue Hash and Cloud 9 and 8 Mile yielded -87 grams per watt
 

alexonfire

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You could run two separate rooms in that space just divide it into two and then you can run them on opposite 12/12, this means you wont have any spike in power usage that looks suspicious to the electric company. SOG system of course
 
Not worried about power spikes as we have MM here in MT. Light mover is a great idea, I'll just have to figure out the ventilation/ light arrangement issue as I was planning to tap a heating system duct where the closest I can mount the 8" 650 cfm. fan, the fan intake will be about 15" from the wall in the middle of the room on one end of the room and I was wanting to keep the flex duct lined up as straight as possible...If I'm rolling 2' each way but trying to be 3' from the wall on the light closest to the fan intake this may be difficult if not impossible to make work unless there is a bunch of flex duct hanging down.

I have an AC unit & a CO2 controller so I was going to go sealed room style...I have done this before, but in a bigger space... trying to work this shit out w/ light movers and all will be a real pain- but light movers sound like the best solution indeed, other than the mechanics involved in such a small space. I was a little worried about hot spots developing and was thinking I would be better off w/ two 600 watter's, (1000's is all I got to work w/ right now) but w/ light movers on the 1000's, problem solved. Now I just got to figure out how to make it all fit & work w/ my 8" duct/ light cooling duct/ fan system. Shit.
 
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