10x10x7 Tent lighting LED, CMH, HPS?

Im looking at bringing another 2x 10x10 (7' ceiling height) tents online.... my hope was to run 1kw of lighting per 4x4 footprint inside the tents... should I be looking at cooled single end HPS? A few years ago I was able to pull about 700 grams average per 4x4 area under 1kw SE air cooled light. Would I be able to get this using 270w LED light rails, Two 270w led light rails per 4x4 area?

There's a guy up here in New England selling homemade led's for 260.00 per rail:

38" x 4". 5.5lbs

Gen3 3000K chips from Luminus. All Meanwell drivers. Active cooled, aluminum rails with 4 chips on each. 288watts. (272w (68w per led x 4)+ 16w for fans).

All intel fans

Data: Chip profiles @ digikey: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/luminus-devices-inc/CXM-22-30-80-54-AC30-F4-3/CXM-22-30-80-54-AC30-F4-3-ND/6151616

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Anymore info on the premade rails?

im not sure these are actually drawing 270 watts? how can an HLG-185H-48A drive 4x Cxm-22's to 68 watts each?

Not with that driver.

GBAUTO said:

Not with that driver.

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I asked him about it...



Any ways, 180-200w LED will not be enough for what i need....

Ive also got these 2 PL Light NXT2's kicking around, maybe i should just get 2x more DEva's and run 4x of these DE's at about 600w each. get a cheap 240v light timer and call it done... still ive only got 7' ceilings down in the basement, not sure if these DE's at 600w will fry my canopies...

p0opstlnksal0t said:

I asked him about it...

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Any ways, 180-200w LED will not be enough for what i need....

Ive also got these 2 PL Light NXT2's kicking around, maybe i should just get 2x more DEva's and run 4x of these DE's at about 600w each. get a cheap 240v light timer and call it done... still ive only got 7' ceilings down in the basement, not sure if these DE's at 600w will fry my canopies...

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I will probably run 4 plants in each 4x4 area. the buckets are probably 12" tall so that leaves 6' from top of bucket to bottom of tent. the lights will take up the top 1' so thats 5' from top of bucket to bottom of light.... if I give myself 30-36 inches from canopy to light bottom this gives me 2' to 2.5' from the top of the bucket to scrog the canopy down...