First of all i think you are over thinking the lighting part of your grow. Getting a good light in your tent is useless if you cannot control your environment properly. Whats your plan for that? Extraction/intraction of air? From where (your house or from outside?) Or will it be sealed with CO2 in some form? Is it humid, dry, hot or cold where you grow? How will you control heat or cold and humidity? And what about the smell, carbon filter etc? All of this is at least as important as lighting, but this thread is probably not the right place for those questions. The easy answer for these questions is: a good extraction fan with variable speed with a controller that turns the extraction on/higher when it gets too hot. And a heater with a thermostat and something that takes care of the humidity. So check out some threads about setting up growrooms for this
As for lighting: all of the stuff you say are doable. If you wanna veg and flower with maybe one board get it in 3500k. And the other 2 in 3000k. If your short of cash dont think too much about another vegg tent, cause it means you need another extractor heater tent, power supply etc. Do your first cycle in your 4x4 and figure it out from there. For a soft vegg you can even get some cheap led light bulbs, either in neutral white or mix half an half cold and warm.
HPS and led complement eachother naturally in a cold environment. HPS has a fair bit of far red and infrared which helps the plant to flowrr and drink more.
Buying: i cant tell you what price they will give you, its its usually around 75-80$ per fotop board with rita/meijiu. Shipping is pretry steep about 120$ but with dhl so you get it real fast. Dont get your powersupply from china, if you have a problem you need to send it to china for warranty. Perhaps several times. Digikeys prices are more or less the same and then you have a US supplier.
Full spectrum: seems to do a nice vegg and can flower if you find a good light.
Now get growing son, its too easy not to start just cause youre fuzzing over details.
I have everything except lights figured out.
But I agree with you on overthinking it.
I’m just way in deep in information on led lights and I wish I had a never look at anything in the first place lol and just stuck with my HPS and stayed simple.
My temperature stays between 68 and 80° depending on whether light is off or on. Humidity between 45 and 60. ( no co2)
I have 6 inch carbon filter pulling air out of tent into the room that it’s in And a 4 inch sucking air in from a different room into the tent. It seems to be going pretty well so far everything looks good I’m just stuck on all this New lighting technology and it’s making my Head to turn around in circles.
I appreciate you helping me and all the information you supplied me with thanks
Basically I just want to get the right lighting so I don’t have to buy anymore for a while.
I fully admit I am a noob But I am a self-sufficient and determined noob. (I just get a bit overwhelmed with information especially when everybody has a different opinion.
That being said I’ve been researching LED lights for weeks now and finally decided that quantum boards are probably the best thing to get especially since china has a pretty good deal on them.
This photo was a week or so ago before I switched to 12/12 I Would take a newer one but lights are off at the moment
also you can see it’s packed I had to get rid of a few heartbreaking.
(I Sacrificed them away from all the other ones so they couldn’t see
