200$ bucks too spend and torn between led and t5 type

[Wetdog]

I have found that plusrite bulbs and ballast work very well too.both plusrite and eiko are commercial bulbs used in factories,stores and office buildings and are of much higher quality than the tubes sold at aquarium or hydro shops

Cool! I'll give the plusrite bulbs a shot next time I order bulbs. Also use a PLL-55 in a reading light set up. Most all bulbs are in the 6500k range, for growing and general house lighting. LOL, you get older and those lower k 'soft white' spectrums just don't work all that well.

Wet

 

[PurpleBuz]

Do not use CFLs. That would be downgrading. Unless you are RM3.
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hahahahahahaha

 

[Walterwhiter]

So what is the consensus on the best t5 ho bulbs? I think I'm sold on them. Although I do like the idea of experimentING with a small led too supplement light during flowering!

 

[RM3]

So what is the consensus on the best t5 ho bulbs? I think I'm sold on them. Although I do like the idea of experimentING with a small led too supplement light during flowering!

If goin T5 check out my Leprechaun sig link, lots of bulbs tested GE 4100K is best for yields mix with an actinic for UV and some finishers 10 to 20K

 

[sunni]

I've merged your threads together please don't make multiple threads on the same topic

 

[Uberknot]

If goin T5 check out my Leprechaun sig link, lots of bulbs tested GE 4100K is best for yields mix with an actinic for UV and some finishers 10 to 20K

yes you must do that

 

[Walterwhiter]

I've merged your threads together please don't make multiple threads on the same topic

Sorry

 

[CobKits]

you can get that with one cob, pretty easily for 90 bucks, and the efficiency would crush CFL. as would 10 of the A19 1500 lumen bulbs i mentioned ($50-$70)

 

[Walterwhiter]

If goin T5 check out my Leprechaun sig link, lots of bulbs tested GE 4100K is best for yields mix with an actinic for UV and some finishers 10 to 20K

I checked your profile. Where is your link?

 

[RM3]

I checked your profile. Where is your link?

It's in my sig but here in case you can't see my sig ?

https://www.rollitup.org/t/the-leprechauns-pot-o-gold.855314/

 

[Olive Drab Green]

Hey, I had mentioned you earlier when someone said about using 400w of CFLs. I told them "That would be a downgrade, unless you are @RM3 ."

 

[Olive Drab Green]

I checked your profile. Where is your link?

Are you afraid RM3 might give you bad information? Because he is the best, if not one of the top 3 best growers on this site.

 

[Walterwhiter]

It's in my sig but here in case you can't see my sig ?

https://www.rollitup.org/t/the-leprechauns-pot-o-gold.855314/

Nice super healthy plants! Just gardening in its self seems so therapeutic. Why call it? Sig? I'm a little ignorant in this circle!

 

[PurpleBuz]

So what is the consensus on the best t5 ho bulbs? I think I'm sold on them. Although I do like the idea of experimentING with a small led too supplement light during flowering!

bad choice I just sold a dozen dual tube t5HO units for 25 each, all upgraded to cob lights.
your starting new, get or build a cob light and replace the cfls with household led bulbs.

 

[Walterwhiter]

Are you afraid RM3 might give you bad information? Because he is the best, if not one of the top 3 best growers on this site.

I've seen his setup. Impressive! Super heathy. I just ask alot of questions. I would rather be the guy with the annoying amount of questions over the blissfully ignorant bastard!

 

[Olive Drab Green]

I've seen his setup. Impressive! Super heathy. I just ask alot of questions. I would rather be the guy with the annoying amount of questions over the blissfully ignorant bastard!

Absolutely. Good deal.

 

[Walterwhiter]

bad choice I just sold a dozen dual tube t5HO units for 25 each, all upgraded to cob lights.
your starting new, get or build a cob light and replace the cfls with household led bulbs.

You upgraded? But we're the t5s producing? I'm just starting out. Not a handy guy around the house. (I'm a blue caller guy I don't wanna "work" at home) plus I have very few tools. After waiting on parts and buying tools I would be over budget and out of time.

 

[RM3]

Nice super healthy plants! Just gardening in its self seems so therapeutic. Why call it? Sig? I'm a little ignorant in this circle!

Sig is short for signature it is the space at the bottom of every ones post under the dotted/dashed line

 

[Cx2H]

I concur... I myself am using a cheap chinese LED, Global Star 300w, and it's working out well for me.. But I also have a little less space (I assume, vertically... I only had 4 feet total, otherwise my space is also about ~3x4... on the smaller side of that, his sounds slightly bigger) and while it is working well, I cannot comment on it's reliability, as it is only a couple of months old.

I also keep hearing (and seeing) better results in terms of yields with HPS a this point, excepting maybe the more expensive LEDs.

So if you have the vertical space, and don't mind the added cooling cost, you should see proportionally/exponentially better results with HPS.

Gawd I hate the Global Star line (They hate me back) and they gave me a 300 with a heavy, heavy discount... It makes an OK clone light but I can't get all the clones under it and they are in 3-inch pots atm. SO I smashed them in many reviews...
Glad it's working out for you though.
#Random

 

[SoOLED]

if I had to pick a light, for less then $200, it would be a 600 DE HPS.

1000 watts of T5 is not really that much, its just two 8 lamps panels pretty much. a lot of what a T5 does, could get really expensive if you start with the hortilux lamps 16x40 $640 bucks of replacement costs coming down the line.

for $229 bucks you can get the reflector, ballast, two 600w lamps(veg/flower) + timer and hangers in one package.

I didn't see the SF: but if its a 4x4 tent heat from a single 600 (even open) is nothing with decent ventilation.


when you have a budget, get that best you can even if its not exactly what you want.