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Nearly 50% cheaper than a hlg 550 v2r

This would half my running costs but would it yield as much as the 1000w hps and would coverage be better? https://www.ebay.com/itm/251687484874

That is very true. I have grown with the same setup for nearly 15 years after taking a year or so to perfect it. Just feeling like a gardening dinosaur and trying to save running costs while achieving a better coverage, sounds like the impossible :(

I'm thinking leds are the right direction but struggling to findicate s setup to cover say 5x5 that doest cost tge earth to buy. Ideally I don't want to spend more than £300UK per site/setup.

Funny enough, that was my first trail of thought and so installed an old Jupiter 2. This was fine for those on opposite ends of the x asis but the pkants on the y axis suffered more :(

I'd be using 9 of them to replace a single 1000w hps. I'm thinking 4x marshydro ts600 would be better ....... hlg units are too expensive as it would cist nearly £1000UK to kit out the 2 grow sites, open to led suggestions ' just want my outer plants to get the same light as the ones directly...

The hps don't give decent coverage of the 4.5x4.5 area though. And I'm using 1m parabolic reflectors to. BTW, I don't have any walls to reflect light.

Or would I need 6 of them at 800w output combined?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254565987926 Yup, things get expensive when you have to x2 lol Would 4x these per 4.5x4.5 site be better? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264479443551

Cheers :)

I would much prefer 5ft strips x 5 per grow site though :)

Wish I could but I'd end up frying myself :( These are the lights in question - as you can see, far cheaper to get 9 of these tgan a single hlg https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254565987926

Oh, might be overdoing it a tad then :( The issue I have with the current set up is light drop off on the pkants 3ft out of the centre. I don't want to add extra lights to the current setup as it will increase running costs :(

*would like to point out that I'm happy with the yield I obtain from the 2x 100w hps, I'm just trying to get a better even coverage

Hense using 18 units across the 2 grows ....