What's the newest LED setup?
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end_of_the_tunnel
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Its all business. Chilled should have known better. They done chilled a service and given them exposure.
end_of_the_tunnel
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I'm sure the barlight is coming. Stephan has tried to be cautionary about aspects of it. We will see the price on that one. Be interested in par maps and hanging height data that follows.
lukio
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had to google that! great word
christopher jordan
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Love reds! Osram is what I'm rocking at the moment, but I hear the xpg3 Cree is just a slight bit better. To me HLG is more about adding racing stripes, where chilled is more about total package. I like Pacific Light Concepts builds. They use Cree reds and 301b's, sphere tested 2.8 umol. Are the full of shit too Stephen?
end_of_the_tunnel
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I like Photoboost, but the price means fewer bars run harder. So not for me. Think HLG has plenty of product that could be considered a total package. You can be like the people who get first in line for the most current product, and change up when new new comes along. Or you can be a slow adopter, and hold out for previous gen and price. Think if you have a social circle, buying new new and using for only a few cycles before offloading and upgrading is an option.
Some people come from a place where new new being recycled via po auction to hydroshop kind of sticks in the craw. Thats where the outlook would predicate adopting a compromise. Guys living in medical and legal land don't have those concerns.
christopher jordan
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Greengenes priced his build out to about $800 for 8 bars. As for HLG its the same design over again 550 or 650 what ever. Pretty much the same. I don't like the fact the 550 was built to emulate an hps. The hot spot in the middle is inefficient. Diode spread is tight not spread, they could change that pretty easy but they don't.
Rocket Soul
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It is sooo very now and 2020...
coreywebster
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Many designs for many size spaces and multiple LED strip options here.
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It is a bit dated , some newer strips not mentioned but it gives you a good idea of some options and the general idea of things.
Lots of good info regarding various ways of choosing and wiring different drivers on his site too.
As a side note, seen a few old mods popping their heads back in here. Covid giving you more time on your hands?
end_of_the_tunnel
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Starting to wish I didn't use that word.
I can get very enthusiastic about products and companies, too.
wietefras
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The PAR mapping that HLG show is useless though. It's not worth $1.
What point is it to know how much light is not lost when you have no reflective walls? Yes that's a dumb question, but that's the only one that chart is answering.
It was used by burple manufacturers with the 90 degree beam angle lenses to show a concentrated beam of light in the middle of the 5x5 area so they could claim their peak value was higher than that of an HPS. And it's abused like that by HLG too.
You need to measure these lights in a real world setting. With reflective walls or with a whole matrix of those lights hanging next to each other at the correct spacing.
The youtube video I posted above shows how Migto tested the light. Very uniform light. Way to much light for such a small space to be honest but apparently that's the new craze
lukio
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isnt it just!
cobshopgrow
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any urban dictionary translation for it allready?
end_of_the_tunnel
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Sycophantic? Praising someone in an insincere way so as to gain something from them. Make them like you so you can get stuff or recognition.
Which reminds me its nearly time for you to update your thread, so I can go like your posts and plants, haha.
end_of_the_tunnel
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Its survival instinct kicking in.
Just because we are out of the jungle, doesn't mean we can't be part of a tribe.
potpimp
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Thanks PJ!! There is a lot of great info in that series; I really learned a lot. I think I'm beginning to get much more of an understanding about the components now.
PJ Diaz
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Yeah, I'm not a GML fan either, and he does seem to say some noob things from time to time. I watch the GML show for his guests, who are usually pretty insightful.
Scuzzman
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I wont buy HLG no matter how cheap they are , and I bet HLG would not care less what people think - after watching the stream live and reading the crap on insta I lost all respect for the company , business 101 never run down a competitor's product/company and make it public-- only my view so bring on the haters the truth hurts 
