New tent, perpetual redesign.

Banana444

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Got my first real perpetual up and running and I realized my 4 area design was a poor choice for efficently using my space. So I bought a gorilla 4x8 with the height extension for flowering and I am going to reuse my SJ 5x5x7 for veg. This will also leave me a much larger work area in my room that there is now. My question is what is the best use of what I have to light my flowering area. And also should I just go barebulb? Vert? I am currently having no problem cooling my hid. I am however having some lower temps in my led area. So heres a list of my gear beside the two tents listed above.

600w lumatek ballast 600w digilux hps bulb
(2) 400w lumatek ballast 400w metal halide and 400w digilus hps
(3) 6" air cooled euro hoods
A51 rw 150
(2) cree 3070 z4 cobs @1400ma mounted on artic 11 heatsinks.
6" 400cfm can fan
6" xxl growbright carbon filter
70 pint dehumidifier
cool air humidifier
central ac and forced air heating that I use for enviroment controls.
Im open to all input. I will be adding somemore lights when a51 comes out with thier new lights or make a diy led with the 3070s.
 

Banana444

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Forgot to add I have 2 20amp lines on thier own breakers so I have room for more power usage if need be.
 

Abiqua

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Vero29's are also cheap, easy to mount, Molex connectors etc.....the #'s were redone recently in the LED section. A very experienced diy builder [StarDustSailor] is putting a build together. He digitized spectrums of both the Vero29 3000k and the CXA 3070 AB, which were fairly similar.....3% more photometric output of the V29, but might be because of the increased % of spectrum between 500-595nm....

The AB's are impossible to find just about stateside, while the Vero's are readily available. I just picked up 2x of the AB's, but am going to mix with Vero 3500k, which I also run in smaller wattages.

Just something to think about, V29 has excellent trade-offs for DIY :leaf:
 

Banana444

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I will be for sure making more diy lights. I had fun building the single mount cobs, would like to take on something bigger. I guess I left the most important part out. I am going from 25sq ft of flowering space to 32sq. I was covering the 5x5 with a 400w and a 600w hps. So only 40w per sq ft.
 
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