best light for 4x4x8

okay I'm looking for the best lighting option for a 4x4x8 room, I want both HID and LED options

I run 4 DWC 5 gallon buckets my ventilation is great

The little magnifying glass below your name. Then type in 4x4 lighting..

LED has so much misinformation you will get 100 different answers on whats best. We would need a budget to give a good answer. For HID it depends on what you want to do, if its Veg then get a 600MH if its flower then a 1000W HPS. Buy used components and new bulbs.

MeGaKiLlErMaN said:

LED has so much misinformation you will get 100 different answers on whats best. We would need a budget to give a good answer. For HID it depends on what you want to do, if its Veg then get a 600MH if its flower then a 1000W HPS. Buy used components and new bulbs.

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I'm wanting to flower in this tent and the budget is like 300-500

With 500$ you can cover a 4x 4' area with good LED's when you are willing to built it yourself. 4 QB96eliteV2 and 2 HLG-240‘s would be ~550w and it would be pretty easy to assemble them. And when the first run is finished you could invest in the 2nd fixture.

To get a better idea.. Here:s the according thread..

https://www.rollitup.org/t/qb96-elite-v2-w-sstx-heatsink-question.977654/

You could use automatics for the first run to expand the grow area to a 4x 6' or 5x 5' area. Automatics need only 20w/sft cuz of the 20/4h day/night cycles. Good LED's are a long time investment because they run up to 10 years and more and still deliver +90% of the initial output. So it makes sense to get something with bad ass efficiency.
1000w HPS would have 1,3μMol/J efficiency, CMH has ~1,9 and these QB96elite reach up to 2,35μMol/J. Still questions..?

KlosetKush said:

I'm wanting to flower in this tent and the budget is like 300-500

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If you want to build the light you should go with Randomblame's idea. If not I would go with a used 1000W HPS (not a DEHPS) with a wide reflector. Cheaper till you can save up a bit more cash.

MeGaKiLlErMaN said:

If you want to build the light you should go with Randomblame's idea. If not I would go with a used 1000W HPS (not a DEHPS) with a wide reflector. Cheaper till you can save up a bit more cash.

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man I just am not savvy at all with current and voltage and shit, I could learn no doubt, just trying to get good results for the time being. hence why I'm going for HIDs

Hey mate, there are plenty of real helpful people here, listen to random- trust me! Do it once, do it right, you won't look back. Have a look at my thread, I knew shit all about LEDs, pretty sure my first grow is gonna towel up my HPS grows....

There are plenty of options if you decide to have a shot at LED.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/5-x-5-light-set-up.978296/