Which reflector?
Club 315w lec
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DemonTrich
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I use my old ones. Big kahuna x7
I checked out their site and it looks as though with shipping to the UK im looking at around £360 which is about the same as the maxibright kit with the sun systems reflector. May go for that one, although that sun systems copy for 235 pounds is making me want to take a chance on it.. Hmm.
MichiganMedGrower
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Just FYI. The sun systems new remote reflector I got from growers house is a Chinese copy with only the pebbled aluminum insert and not the smooth mirrored aluminum with the brand name like the original reflectors.
But it works very well. It is still the same design other than the cheaper insert.
I do know the bulb was engineered for that shape vertical mount reflector. And will put down the most par vertically. But @DemonTrich doesn't seem to be lacking any results in his room so ymmv.
DemonTrich
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Thanks
I'll post up my harvest $.02 in 2 weeks. I'll know if I'm on par or ahead of my 3x600 grows. So far, veg is KILLING it by about 1.5 weeks ahead of schedule.
I'll post up my harvest $.02 in 2 weeks. I'll know if I'm on par or ahead of my 3x600 grows. So far, veg is KILLING it by about 1.5 weeks ahead of schedule.
MichiganMedGrower
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Ok guys. Here are better pics of my Now enhanced spectrum flower room and some buds finished under the Phillips 315 LEC 3100k.
@Dr. Who I thought you might find this interesting and haven't seen you in here much.
The buds are all more defined in their individual phenos than any from my room before cmh. They also all smell and taste stronger and have higher potency and full spectrum of effects than any previous buds I have grown.
The lamp seems to help with uptake. Problems common at the end of flower seem reduced.
I do want to repeat as I have said before. The effect is SUBTLE!
I can not say that in a blind test I would always get which light right. But I might......
Hortilux Super HPS side
Phillips 315 LEC side and overlap at the "L"
Left to Right
Black Widow x Blue Lemon Thai #6
Black Widow x Blue Lemon Thai #5
Blue Lemon Thai #4
1st pic no camera flash 2nd pic camera flash on
And I don't use 315's yet for veg but plant to when I get the tents out and the larger flower room built. So much light for the wattage. And the veg I am seeing around here is great!
Here is my fully covered 2' T-5 HO 6500k all around system.
2' x 3' Propogation tent for seedlings and cuttings
3' x 3' Veg tent
@Dr. Who I thought you might find this interesting and haven't seen you in here much.
The buds are all more defined in their individual phenos than any from my room before cmh. They also all smell and taste stronger and have higher potency and full spectrum of effects than any previous buds I have grown.
The lamp seems to help with uptake. Problems common at the end of flower seem reduced.
I do want to repeat as I have said before. The effect is SUBTLE!
I can not say that in a blind test I would always get which light right. But I might......
Hortilux Super HPS side
Phillips 315 LEC side and overlap at the "L"
Left to Right
Black Widow x Blue Lemon Thai #6
Black Widow x Blue Lemon Thai #5
Blue Lemon Thai #4
1st pic no camera flash 2nd pic camera flash on
And I don't use 315's yet for veg but plant to when I get the tents out and the larger flower room built. So much light for the wattage. And the veg I am seeing around here is great!
Here is my fully covered 2' T-5 HO 6500k all around system.
2' x 3' Propogation tent for seedlings and cuttings
3' x 3' Veg tent
MichiganMedGrower
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Those plants look great! How much faster?vegging under the flowering bulb because i figured it would be ok for a few weeks. it's outperforming my t5 ho.
ttystikk
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I veg under flowering light all the time. My girls love it.vegging under the flowering bulb because i figured it would be ok for a few weeks. it's outperforming my t5 ho.
typoerror
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i'd say a few days faster. i bet the veg bulb would be at least a week faster.
Dr. Who
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Hey thanks for the invite.
Interesting to be sure. I desgined and built my personal building a cpl years ago now. CMH was just popping in and Cob's were very close on it's heels. As I was building I had already bought my equipment. I got great hoods and they were the last ones anywhere in the country (Jupiter 6's). They have proper working reflective "covers" over the cooling air vents. I gained 20% in reflected light.
Then I saw the CMH's come out and began to feel I wished I had done something different. Well, I have what I have and suspend 400w Merc vapors underneath (horizontally) for the UV and of course that gives me more blue also. Total lux is 31,000 higher then with the 1k HPS alone.
I'll most likely look carefully at COB and give a shot to it, in one foot print, and then slowly change over if I like the results.....The idea of dropping electrical cost and cooling cost, while increasing light efficiency is everyone's goal, or should be.
I've been around long enough to have seen "best available" lighting change many times.....You get settled into what you like and things change. Now it changes faster......I still picked the HID over "induction" at my purchase time.....If I had waited even 3 more months as to when the building it's self was ready to install the lighting.....I would most likely have CMH.....sigh.....
I'll be looking at this thread as it goes...subbed.
MichiganMedGrower
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Why not supplement with CMH rather than the merc vapor lamps? Efficiency? Cheaper and likely equal results. Better according to the university of Utah.
I myself am waiting a couple more years to see if real purpose made agricultural led lamps are out. And I will need lights on heaters here in winter with cobs. My bulbs save me a lot of money in heat at night. So.........
Dr. Who
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At this point my set up with the MV's are far cheaper then new CMH but, not to run!.....I'll pop a shot of it, if it'll be clear enough, when I go out...I'm a night lighter.
No real problem with heat for me.....Full home heating and cooling in the building! Nothing like a nice central AC......You run a higher rated cold transfer unit in the ducting and be more efficient.
There's a wholesale heating and cooling supply house, out of Florida. They'll sell direct to you at that wholesale price! I got a nice furnace and matched a 2.5 ton AC to a 3 ton transfer....If I have all 8 lights per room on. Each room does need a supplemental 12K portable in the hot months.....It runs only intermittently. Dehuey's run to condensate pumps that run to my water supply tank.
In the winter I run thermo controller electrical switch's that draw in completely filtered cold air to cool as needed...I set the on and off points...
Wow, what strain you got there?
dangledo
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kali mist x (destroyer x nepali og)ibl
Looks incredible. Mucho thumbs up
Dr. Who
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First F1 run. GG#4 X Hogsbreath..... Pheno hunt later. I just had to run a plant to see what could be up with this cross.
MichiganMedGrower
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Nice flowers Doc! Can't go too wrong with the pheno you got there looks like.