Thinking of getting with timber leds

So I'm an avid HID grower. I run 4-1000s hps and 1-630cmh in my sealed flower room with 2 ton mini split.
So I'm throwing a 4x4 flower tent upstairs just to ramp up production a bit, I was just going throw a 630cmh in the tent and be done with it but I want to try something new. Was looking into the fluence spydr, gavita pro 1700, and the timber redwoodVS. I'm leaning towards the timber. I saw timber offers 4 different color temps, I figured if I was using it for flower I would want to use the 3000k or 3500k, right? I already looked up a decent amount of info on these leds on riu but any other input would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah, solid lights. But cobs in a tent are outdone by boards or strips nowadays.
You don't gotta spend the kind of money Gavita or Fluence is asking either.

This is thee first bar light I've seen with optimal spacing for the most even ppfd possible:


Then there's this style like fluence and gavita:


And of course your classic:

There's options for 3000 or 3500 and some other add ons.
Bar none,stick to 3000k LM301B/H with 660/730nm reds. Cree or Osram preferably over Epistar.

Airwalker16 said:

There's options for 3000 or 3500 and some other add ons.
Bar none,stick to 3000k LM301B/H with 660/730nm reds. Cree or Osram preferably over Epistar.

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That's what I thought, I was going to go w/the 3000k. Appreciate you kicking me some solid info dude. I have run leds before, while back I had the area 51 leds...haha don't think that company is around anymore. Anyways its seems like technology is getting better than then and wanted to give it another shot. I was going to look into diy boards but kind of just wanted to drop a bit of money for a plug and play..the timber redwoods seems reasonably priced for cobs compared to the gavita and fluence.

Dividedsky said:

That's what I thought, I was going to go w/the 3000k. Appreciate you kicking me some solid info dude. I have run leds before, while back I had the area 51 leds...haha don't think that company is around anymore. Anyways its seems like technology is getting better than then and wanted to give it another shot. I was going to look into diy boards but kind of just wanted to drop a bit of money for a plug and play..the timber redwoods seems reasonably priced for cobs compared to the gavita and fluence.

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Cobs are great, but in a tent, you're really wanting more of them at lower wattage. Like 2 fixtures of 8. 2x4 for 16 total, one per sq ft around 35watts each. Otherwise, strip/bar lights are much better.
Or if you have high ceilings, cobs are THEE option. Them and the QB96s from HLG.

Airwalker16 said:

Cobs are great, but in a tent, you're really wanting more of them at lower wattage. Like 2 fixtures of 8. 2x4 for 16 total, one per sq ft around 35watts each. Otherwise, strip/bar lights are much better.
Or if you have high ceilings, cobs are THEE option. Them and the QB96s from HLG.

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Gotya would it help I have a mini split outside of the tent? I would still run a passive air intake with tent carbon filter> inline fan >out the tent, flaps sucking cool air in...

Dividedsky said:

Gotya would it help I have a mini split outside of the tent? I would still run a passive air intake with tent carbon filter> inline fan >out the tent, flaps sucking cool air in...

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That's doable with a minisplit to coil the exhausting air. But the stink will accumulate. If you could vent that carbon filtered air to outside, you'd be much better off.

Airwalker16 said:

That's doable with a minisplit to coil the exhausting air. But the stink will accumulate. If you could vent that carbon filtered air to outside, you'd be much better off.

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Nah it'll be good with the smell. I've run a tent like that before, 6" carbon filter handled it. I run an amost 5000watt hid sealed room co2, dehu, and mini split and a 6" carbon filter can handle that room, it can definitely handle a 4x4, worse comes to worse I can stick a 4" filter with inline fan standing outside the tent to scrub air. Other thing is I would want to vent outside because I would be sucking out cold air also.