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Here's to give you a gist or prices from kingbriteWould I just be better off building one on my own ?? I dont want to put much more then three bones into it if i didnt have to
I'm looking to light up a 9 foot squared area with them, I could do that price if the light is going to perform very well and be able to compete with comparable hps lighting, I'm sick of my fans fucking up and stressing my plants and always dealing with heat issues.
So a ~3"x3" area. The list above would be awesome for that space. Way better than anything else out there for sure. 375 watts for the above list. That's a lot of light.
Haha yeah I hear you! Jerry at kingbrite is best thing going. Mouser is about 65$ per Cree cob so that's worse.I dont even respond to the comments that make no relevant sense , I'm looking around right now to see if I can source the parts a little cheaper, If I can do away with the shipping and paypal I'd be happier then a pig in shit
Where and how did you come up with this spew of a statement?
Ok. Haven't read any studies on it other than Chinese led companies mentioning that.
Awesome reply, Current is 9 square foot tent with 1000 hps in air cooled hood with 5k btu ac unit and multiple fans, I run an aeroponic sog setup and run at least 32 oz every 60 days. That being said I have more then enough meds for the patients for the next year or so and am wanting to get back into experimenting again. I dont want to reduce wattage of my hps and just all together want to try the led thing. I also said I would like to ONLY spend three hundo, I didnt say I couldnt go and dig up the funds out in the back yard. lolMars is junk. People who are supporting MARS either don't realize their light is less efficient and more expensive than an average (less expensive) HPS setup or are trying to justifying to themselves how they spent all that money on JUNK. There is zero benifit to a Mars unit unless your comparing it to an incandescent light... and NOBODY is growing with incandescent bulbs.
We really need to know what your HID setup is (make/wattage/ cool tube?) to be able to suggest a setup that would equal or outproduce what you have.
For your budget of $300 for 9sq/ft buying a more efficient HPS is the best bang for your buck 9 times out of 10- quality DIY LEDs would probably be over budget and are difficult to efficiently vent waste heat outside your tent.
What has been discussed multiple times - any Watt put into a tent in any form (waste heat, photons, imaginary MARS numbers) is going to be heat eventually - so you have to manage it. The LED s would be a benifit for you when running at higher efficiency ONLY because watts from the wall can be reduced while maintaining your PAR levels and this is almost exponentially(not really exponentially - but awful nonetheless) expensive once you start moving above 50%+ efficiency.
So it's go big or go home with LEDs. That's the honest truth...for the next couple years...
9 out of 10 times - so enlighten us further on your current setup so we can get you in the 1 time out of 10 group
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. My biggest clean tops were a little over 6g dry which Im sure is small time to alot of people here but in my case a huge improvement over the hps
You have any pics??I guess people here really hate mars hydro lol. I have to say though my personal experience of 1 test flower run of 3x reflector series 144 was much better than my past 2 years trying to battle hps heat. Yeah the mars still make heat but it was nowhere near the 1k hps they replaced. They advertise it as 4x2 coverage but I would say its more like 3x1.5 MAYBE 3x2 (I used 3 over a 4x5 space).
I ran the same 9 strains I did under hps and had much better results with the led. Seemed alot more frosty. Much denser and 2 of my strains ended up with rock solid (nowhere near as dense under the hps). No exaggeration they were literally solid as a bud can be but gave me my first case of bud rot on a few tops
Long story short theres always gonna be someone who hates a brand and another who loves it. My experience with the mars lights was impressive enough for me to make a huge investment into building my own cree leds. If you can afford/understand/build the diy cree just do it and skip the premade lights. If you need something now and dont wanna wait or build your own then the mars could be worth the temporary investment. I only tried mars because it seemed like the best value and I was skeptical about leds and wanted to see first hand before investing in a full swap from hps