Club 315w lec

DemonTrich said:

Your hood also plays a huge role in light dispersement. Imo, with a larger hood, the hood is able to spread the light out more, allowing you to lessen the canopy to light distance.

I'll be testing out this theory next Saturday with my 315 in big kahuna hoods.

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ive been using the 315watt lec from boulder ;lamp with great results but i like the hood on this one way better,,just cant buy another one, what do u think?

Greenbeams 315W Ceramic Metal Halide (CMH) 120V Grow Light System w/3100K Bulb
by Cycloptics

Hammerhead over at mag been using greenbeams and liked them. I've been rocking big kahuna hoods for my 600s x 6 (currently) with superb results.

DemonTrich said:

Hammerhead over at mag been using greenbeams and liked them. I've been rocking big kahuna hoods for my 600s x 6 (currently) with superb results.

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are the lights mounted horizontal ?

SS hoods are vert iirc. Most others are normal.

Has anyone had issues with their timers and the sun system LEC?

I use the titan control 9 timer i think. I have used them for years and never have one fail.
I recently had one shut off on time but seemed like it would get stuck before it was supposed to turn back on. If left alone it would turn on but usually an hour or two late . since i have ran these timers for years on multiple different set ups I did not think anything of it and just replaced the timer. After about a month the new timer started to do the same thing.

Im wondering if the new style ballast has issues with the SWSF Ballast?

Anyone have a timer they would recommend?

DemonTrich said:

Your hood also plays a huge role in light dispersement. Imo, with a larger hood, the hood is able to spread the light out more, allowing you to lessen the canopy to light distance.

I'll be testing out this theory next Saturday with my 315 in big kahuna hoods.

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That's what I tried to tell you earlier depending on hood lights put out different footprints.

I wasn't arguing with you about it, was I? Larger hoos, imo, can have the lights closer, and still reap the benefits of proper light spread

DemonTrich said:

I wasn't arguing with you about it, was I? Larger hoos, imo, can have the lights closer, and still reap the benefits of proper light spread

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Not sure I was just saying you can spread your light up to 4x4 with a 600w hps if you use the right hood.

I currently rock 6x600w in all big kahuna hoods in veg and flower rooms (3 in each room) I do over 1lb per light in flower for the past 4+yrs of growing. Minus 1 run epic fail from a bad co2 run.

DemonTrich said:

I currently rock 6x600w in all big kahuna hoods in veg and flower rooms (3 in each room) I do over 1lb per light in flower for the past 4+yrs of growing. Minus 1 run epic fail from a bad co2 run.

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That's cool , with a blockbuster 6 inch reflector a 600w hps can do a 4x4 grow tent from wall to wall.

Veg is a 5x10 tent

Flower is a 8x12 sealed room that's offset from center 2.5'. Gives me room to work, places for my scrubber, tank, a/c. Putting 4x315 in there this weekend from 3x600hps.

i had the cool tube reflector with adjustable wings from virtual sun and the 600 watt hps covered a 4ftx4ft well,,but i now run the 315's cmh and get far better gpw's than i ever achieved with hps ,mh,or both..

Virtual Sun VSCR6000 6'' Cool Tube Enclosed Grow Light Hood Reflector

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1 lb = 448grams... 1 lb per 600 watt hps well under 1gpw,, you should easily hit 1.5 gpw using the 315 watt ceramics,, i hit 1.4 first run and now im getting 1.6gpw,,ive ,never got better than 1.2 gpw with hps,mh,or both

Finally got my flower room all.buttoned up and the new 4x315w cmh lights installed. Flippin my room tonight. Or as many of the 12 big, 1 medium, and 6 tester strains staked, tied, and moved.

Light output looks fantastic. Cool, crisp, beautiful light vs the hps.

Nice clean setup, you should rock that room with those LEC's

I still have to do some wire maintenence, cleaning and tieing up. Anyone know if I would still need glasses to protect my eyes? My old hps glasses are blue lenses

The method 7 metal halide glasses have worked for me under the cmh as well

If the hps glasses are the same, I'll just use those vs spending more money.

As far as philips bulbs go, I've been running philips alto daylight deluxe in my t8 for years with great results . About to swap out 32 bulbs tonight if I have time.

Evil-Mobo said:

The method 7 metal halide glasses have worked for me under the cmh as well

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Just to be clear I have two separate glasses from them for the hps and mh. They are not the same. I never bought led ones because they were meant for blurple and mono and I have COB's so just wear regular sun glasses with the cobs.