circular led grow space
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coreywebster
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People have done the opposite with HPS and other bulbs plenty and now with LED if you look for Sedans thread in the vertical section. Its worth a look even if its not what your on about!
Big Green Thumb did a bird cage shape light for last years 12/12 from seed solo cup challenge which is similar to your idea but on small scale. You can probably find it in LED section or just ask @Big Green Thumb to link it.
There are also lights like the sun cloak which are pretty much strips hung like curtains between and around plants.
Either way its very possible to do. How effective it is I wouldn't know much about. Hopefully you try it out and post it on here.
Big Green Thumb did a bird cage shape light for last years 12/12 from seed solo cup challenge which is similar to your idea but on small scale. You can probably find it in LED section or just ask @Big Green Thumb to link it.
There are also lights like the sun cloak which are pretty much strips hung like curtains between and around plants.
Either way its very possible to do. How effective it is I wouldn't know much about. Hopefully you try it out and post it on here.
rkymtnman
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and the back of Penthouse magazine where you could find the ads. lol
rkymtnman
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that would be way too small a diameter i think.
Big Green Thumb
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People have done the opposite with HPS and other bulbs plenty and now with LED if you look for Sedans thread in the vertical section. Its worth a look even if its not what your on about!
Big Green Thumb did a bird cage shape light for last years 12/12 from seed solo cup challenge which is similar to your idea but on small scale. You can probably find it in LED section or just ask @Big Green Thumb to link it.
There are also lights like the sun cloak which are pretty much strips hung like curtains between and around plants.
Either way its very possible to do. How effective it is I wouldn't know much about. Hopefully you try it out and post it on here.
I am a fan of side lighting/all around lighting, but cannot say it is definitely better than only overhead lighting... it does work for me.
Big Green Thumb
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The above picture of my disco tent is from about a year ago. I have since removed the center vertical strip fixture because it was just a pain to work around. The plants are still growing well being lit on 2 sides and overhead.
At work I found a piece of 8" aluminum pipe that I was tempted to take so I could line the outside of it with 4' strips and stand vertically and try using this contraption like a bare hps bulb to do a vertical grow. I could probably put 20 strips on that pipe for about 600 watts and put a fan in the bottom blowing up through the pipe to cool the fixture. But alas, I have no room for another grow and a plant count limit to boot.
At work I found a piece of 8" aluminum pipe that I was tempted to take so I could line the outside of it with 4' strips and stand vertically and try using this contraption like a bare hps bulb to do a vertical grow. I could probably put 20 strips on that pipe for about 600 watts and put a fan in the bottom blowing up through the pipe to cool the fixture. But alas, I have no room for another grow and a plant count limit to boot.
ShartyWaffles
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That looks sick ... bird cage of strips.
Big Green Thumb
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My strips are all from damaged retail light fixture. Some of the strips are sumsung and the others are acuity brand, neither are current state of the art strips, so they probably are not what you want. The pricing was crazy cheap tho, which is why I bought them in the first place. I bought 45 of the 48" strips for $105 total shipped to my door. The 22" strips were similarly priced and I must have bought 60 or so of them.
Regarding the fixtures you are looking at, they should be good IF they actually have the components they claim.
gr865
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Is this based off fact or your opinion?
From my research it seems all these US based lighting companies use Chinese suppliers and
mark everything up 100%.
Anyone can buy Samsung leds at low prices in bulk and assemble lights.
Or you're saying the leds can be Chinese Samsung knockoffs?
gr865
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Just from research when I was using LED's. Lot's of reading and found the the true wattage of a lot of Chinese LED's were not what they say.
I bought American from an American company. Cost more but know I got what I paid for.
Have since switched to 315W CMH but still use the LED for some veg.
I bought American from an American company. Cost more but know I got what I paid for.
Have since switched to 315W CMH but still use the LED for some veg.
gr865
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I have a old SS400 and it does not give me the buds that I get from the 315's. It gave me decent buds, but I wanted more, so I went to a 400 W MH and HPS setup. Got about the same buds as the LED but deeper into the plant.
I switched to the 315's when I decided to grow vertical. My hydro shop guy sort of talked me into it and glad he did. I run two 315's now at about the same power as a 600 W HPS, and it is said that the 315 is equivalent to 500 W's of HPS, so two would be near 1000 W.
I also run my ballast remote so there is less heat in the tent.
I switched to the 315's when I decided to grow vertical. My hydro shop guy sort of talked me into it and glad he did. I run two 315's now at about the same power as a 600 W HPS, and it is said that the 315 is equivalent to 500 W's of HPS, so two would be near 1000 W.
I also run my ballast remote so there is less heat in the tent.
How does that ss400 compare to the newer led technology? Whats your yeild from two 315's?
Is it the balasts that put out most of the heat or the bulbs? I have a two ton mini split for my shed which is probably over kill but if I go cmh it will probably be needed more
Is it the balasts that put out most of the heat or the bulbs? I have a two ton mini split for my shed which is probably over kill but if I go cmh it will probably be needed more
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gr865
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I have no idea how they compare, moved on from LED's.
Been running 1 plus gram/watt with the 315's, my sig has my grows if you want to look.
The ballast put out heat that is not needed in the tent.