Apollo Horticulture Purple Sun COB 384W LED Grow Light

Should I buy this light?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • No

    Votes: 16 94.1%
  • Total voters
    17
hyroot

hyroot

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mc130p said:
Personally, I would never buy from a company called "Low Baller," haha
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I got their Apollo horticulture glasses. Only $20. Alot cheaper than method sevens. Great to wear outside too. Yeah their lights are horrible. My point was I bought glasses from low baller but it was on amazon.
 
PSUAGRO.

PSUAGRO.

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mc130p said:
Personally, I would never buy from a company called "Low Baller," haha
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What's wrong with low balls? It's just gravity bro ;-)

hyroot said:
I got their Apollo horticulture glasses. Only $20. Alot cheaper than method sevens. Great to wear outside too. Yeah their lights are horrible. My point was I bought glasses from low baller but it was on amazon.
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Cause your a cheap mofo...
 
FrozenChozen

FrozenChozen

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mc130p said:
Personally, I would never buy from a company called "Low Baller," haha
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hyroot said:
Apollo horticulture.... Yeah their lights are horrible.
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I haven't seen anything wrong with Apollo, or Low baller.... I've bought products from both, I have never had problems with either. I ordered a 600 hps "kit" from him, the ballast is cooler and quieter than my lumatek. Under a light meter after 2 flowering cycles, my Apollo brand 600 watt bulb puts off about 68,000 lumens at 12 inches, the Hortilux bulb (three times the price) I just got out of the box a couple days ago puts off 70,500ish lumens at the same distance.... 2,500 lumens doesn't justify an EXTRA $65 in my book!
I have seen the purple sun cobs from Apollo grow some monsters, why the hate?
loquacious said:
I am thinking of purchasing this led and was wondering if anyone had some input on this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apollo-Horticulture-Purple-Sun-COB-384W-LED-Grow-Light-for-Indoor-Plant-Growing-/181330724743?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
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http://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Horticulture-Purple-Sun-Spectrum/dp/B00I2VLMJ2/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1412318944&sr=8-7&keywords=apollo+led
here it is on amazon for $40 less
 
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Socalrob

Socalrob

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I bought from low baller a fan filter combo. The fan still works good since March but the filter was garbage. Just looked at Amazon reviews for that purple sun cob light and out of 15 reviews 6 reported light failures in the first few months. That's too high. Low baller has decent customer service though.
 
FrozenChozen

FrozenChozen

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Socalrob said:
I bought from low baller a fan filter combo. The fan still works good since March but the filter was garbage. Just looked at Amazon reviews for that purple sun cob light and out of 15 reviews 6 reported light failures in the first few months. That's too high. Low baller has decent customer service though.
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everyone of those people said that he shipped a new light after they had problems
 
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churchhaze

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oooh boy.... So... if you count the dies on those multichips, there are 64 each. I'm assuming they're rated at 1W with test current each.


Running those chips at 64W each (which is really pushing it imo with those chinese multichips to be honest), that's 128W of actual power. I don't know where they got the number 384W from.

No, don't get that. Make a DIY vero 18 UFO Killer! (or any cree cxa or bridgelux vero build)

http://rollitup.org/t/diy-80w-vero-18-ufo-killer.846752/
 
FrozenChozen

FrozenChozen

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churchhaze said:
oooh boy.... So... if you count the dies on those multichips, there are 64 each. I'm assuming they're rated at 1W with test current each.
Running those chips at 64W each (which is really pushing it imo with those chinese multichips to be honest), that's 128W of actual power. I don't know where they got the number 384W from.
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8 rows 8 columns on each of two cobs.... 192 watts per cob (192*2=384) gives us 192watts/64diodes=3watts per diode
where did you learn math?
 
Abiqua

Abiqua

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FrozenChozen said:
its okay for every other company to advertise "max current" instead of "operating current" but not Apollo?
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It is not okay for ANY company to do it. And only the cheap no names, are the one's to do it. And I am just pointing out that Max Current isn't really a number.

Just because every one is "doing it" doesn't make it acceptable. In fact most reputable diode manufacturers rate their datasheets in max Volts, not watts.
 
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churchhaze

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If I was running those 4 vero 18 at MAX current of 2.1A instead of 700mA:

4 * 33V * 2.1A = 277W equivalent UFO power!

Yet I called mine 80W because that's what it's designed to actually run at. Running it at 277W might just be insane!
 
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