led veg?

rollyouron

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Rocket Soul

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The 4 foot strips are actually around 44" if i i rememb right, or 1120 mm. Tight fit but maybe doable. There is also the option of fitting 3 x 1 footer strips. With 3 x 1 foot you can control hotspotting in the middle aswell. Most things on amazon is kinda crappy, this is a 120 lum/w fixture when you could easily do 180i with samsung or bridgelux. Also, 6500k is usually too cold for vegging, 4000 or maybe 5000 for sativas is the usual advice around here, otherwise youll have too little node spacing resulting in poor airflow.
Rule of thumb: dont buy any lights from amazon, theyre usually crappy. Hope it helps and happy growing :)
 

MR. CLAYS

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The 4 foot strips are actually around 44" if i i rememb right, or 1120 mm. Tight fit but maybe doable. There is also the option of fitting 3 x 1 footer strips. With 3 x 1 foot you can control hotspotting in the middle aswell. Most things on amazon is kinda crappy, this is a 120 lum/w fixture when you could easily do 180i with samsung or bridgelux. Also, 6500k is usually too cold for vegging, 4000 or maybe 5000 for sativas is the usual advice around here, otherwise youll have too little node spacing resulting in poor airflow.
Rule of thumb: dont buy any lights from amazon, theyre usually crappy. Hope it helps and happy growing :)
The qb boards are good
 

maxlev

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I use a 4000k QB288V2 bolted to an aluminium oven tray, currently dimmed down to 33 watts in the small veg/mother tent.
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boostedhonda

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You could run two 44” strips the fb24b’s on the hlg 240h 48b wired in parallel. Mount them on some 2” by 1” 1/8” thick aluminum u channel. Space them 24” apart and hang them high
 

Rocket Soul

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If remember right: you could get 6 bridgelux eb gen2 strips for t price of two samsung double fstrips, you could run them at nominal for similar wattage, better spread and lower hanging height. And at nominal ebs can go without heat sink. I think arrow might have them on sale but i also heard the gen 3 is soon to be released.
 

Rocket Soul

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If remember right: you could get 6 bridgelux eb gen2 strips for t price of two samsung double fstrips, you could run them at nominal for similar wattage, better spread and lower hanging height. And at nominal ebs can go without heat sink. I think arrow might have them on sale but i also heard the gen 3 is soon to be released.
According to someone who says hes in the know, theyre due for Q2.
 
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