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[GMO]

Hi everyone

As lighting technology develops in leaps and bounds it's hard to not feel left in the dust, making it difficult to invest as it feel like tech will be out of date before it arrives

The other daunting side for myself is the par and light spectrum

Personally I have been running the older style 3w diode, blurple (mars hydro300w) panels for a while which are meant to be a more narrow light spectrum that's aim directly in the usable spectrum for the plants

Tech has since taken a massive leap and I've just invested in a quantum board led panel. This is a white light panel so there is a degree of lost light as the plant won't be using the full spectrum but these panels also do fine with passive cooling so their actual running cost is purely light based as the older panels need fan cooling. with the fan draw taking up a margin of the real draw from the wall is therefore a lil difficult to define for pure light

So with all that these quantum boards should have a much higher par to watt than traditional lights and the older led lights but spectrum is still fairly broad like HID lighting... there is the tech for the narrow spectrums but out of my price range

So that's all my current understanding and use of led

Anyone else got any hands one experience or input as I think led is going to be the future at some stage... even if it's just to fill the spectrum and "finish" buds nicely

Thanks for reading my rant. Please join in




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[BB]

When I first started growing I didn’t have a clue about what lighting to use and there was no internet like today so I used a halogen light lmao.couldnt work out why I had jack n the beanstalk size seedlings with 2 leafs at the top.full on red spectrum
Really do need to try LED’s

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[GMO]

When I first started growing I didn’t have a clue about what lighting to use and there was no internet like today so I used a halogen light lmao.couldnt work out why I had jack n the beanstalk size seedlings with 2 leafs at the top.full on red spectrum
Really do need to try LED’s

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My first real try at indoor was a pc box with 3 30w cfl of varying colours. Had more dead spiders than bud

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[BB]

Funny thinking back to shit that was tried without the information


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[GMO]

Funny thinking back to shit that was tried without the information


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I would still tell anybody to try out something if they are committed enough tho. Only real way we get the information

I couldn't find much data on the qb led so I jumped in. Hopefully for the good of all

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[ohlordyeah_420]

Just finished my first grow. For flowering I used a viparspectra 600w led and a 600w hps (dimmed to 400 with the correct bulb) and I can tell you the buds under the led were smaller than the hps buds but so so rock hard. Solid and dense buds.

I'm not a fan of the vipraspectra simply as the fan is pretty noisy. I'd like to get a quantum board in the future I think. But as always the prices keep dropping on this new technology so it's a balance of how long do you wait.

'free your mind and your ass will follow'

[GMO]

Just finished my first grow. For flowering I used a viparspectra 600w led and a 600w hps (dimmed to 400 with the correct bulb) and I can tell you the buds under the led were smaller than the hps buds but so so rock hard. Solid and dense buds.

I'm not a fan of the vipraspectra simply as the fan is pretty noisy. I'd like to get a quantum board in the future I think. But as always the prices keep dropping on this new technology so it's a balance of how long do you wait.

'free your mind and your ass will follow'

True dat mate. Personally the brand name ain't worth the extra cost.

As long as ya got the best quality diodes and chips then ya can throw something together fairly cheap but still "high spec"

And all the actual diode panels come off the same factory line

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[GMO]

Just finished my first grow. For flowering I used a viparspectra 600w led and a 600w hps (dimmed to 400 with the correct bulb) and I can tell you the buds under the led were smaller than the hps buds but so so rock hard. Solid and dense buds.

I'm not a fan of the vipraspectra simply as the fan is pretty noisy. I'd like to get a quantum board in the future I think. But as always the prices keep dropping on this new technology so it's a balance of how long do you wait.

'free your mind and your ass will follow'

Have you considered using both together?

Tbh that how I think these earlier gen of led are to be used

They all do well enough on their own but the potential of all that light together makes my mouth water lol

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[Bulls]

Hello guys.
When I done my first grow it was with MARS II 900w which was drawing bout 450 w from the wall. I was happy with the panel, but it was noisy and a bit of heat output. Then it died :D
Since then I moved to HPS and must say penetration is way better. Especially when you grow a leafy strain.
I bought 2 COB panels from Prakasa, one 200w and 300w. They are both true watts. I am very happy with them, use them either for vegging, full grow, mixed spectrum growing with the HPS and results are really good. They are using 3w Bridgelux and Epistar leds. Nearly no heat output on them so I am happy to run them through the summer in the loft :) I find best results using both HPS and LED together. Covered in trichomes and good size buds.

[BB]

Hello guys.
When I done my first grow it was with MARS II 900w which was drawing bout 450 w from the wall. I was happy with the panel, but it was noisy and a bit of heat output. Then it died :D
Since then I moved to HPS and must say penetration is way better. Especially when you grow a leafy strain.
I bought 2 COB panels from Prakasa, one 200w and 300w. They are both true watts. I am very happy with them, use them either for vegging, full grow, mixed spectrum growing with the HPS and results are really good. They are using 3w Bridgelux and Epistar leds. Nearly no heat output on them so I am happy to run them through the summer in the loft :) I find best results using both HPS and LED together. Covered in trichomes and good size buds.

Yes mate I’d be looking to mix with my current dual spec hps.


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