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i just got my 500 watt blackstars yesterday...hooked em up and they are bright as shit....they run hotter than my 357 magnums but thats just the extra diodes im sure....i cant see a heatsink in there which might expain the 8 fans they use. they are also a different color than the magnum which...

woot go nucks go! just added more lights to the room which is raising the heat up again they at 93f =( the extra light is nessesary though so ill have to get an AC was using 357 magnums over 4x8 flood tables ...spread them apart a bit and put a 500 watt blackstar inbetween them....PAR...

i hear you...most of my friends are commercial growers and all tried to tell me to use HPS. im almost 20 days into flowering and i am still happy with what im seeing... (fingers crossed)

thanks bro... cant wait to see how you do with that light...mine arrive tomorrow

that dont make sense from what i know about solid state lights...but ill look into it. there are some 3 watt diodes that use the 1 watt chips in the same bulb to achive that rating. a true 3 watt die only has 1 chip. as for over clocking a one watt diode by 3 times to get a 3 watt rating...

holy mother those plants look sweet.

yeah i hear you. the part im concerned with is the claims of all the grow journals that use these lower wattage lights getting the results they claim....im happy with what im doing atm but we shall see come weigh in time...anyway NWI sorry for jacking your thread

yeah thats cool i know what you mean... i think that its semantics though really if we are talking about a growstealth 600 watt light that uses 266 3 watt crees and costs 1200 draws 550 watts OR the 500 watt blackstar that uses 168 3 watt crees and draws 270 watts and costs 500 bucks....i know...

um well the actual draw is from under clocking the diodes as there is dimminishing returns on the amount of brightness produced: energy used ratio right... what brands of LED lights rate their lights as true wattage?

i spoke to the guy who does most of the sales for them i think and he told me its 500 watts of true 3 watt crees ...if its not ill send it back.... lighthouse/blackstar seems to be legit though. theres no money in lying to people on the internet and having people trash your product in the forums...

well its going to be like this: ^^ [357 mag]^^^ [500 blackstar] ^^^ [357 mag |________________4x8 table___________________| and yes its @#$%ing expencive but i think its nessesary to grow big....i have my plants pretty close together though

the panels im using now are 357 magnums. the actual draw is less than that ya. me saying im adding another 500 watts is just the rating on the blackstar i ordered... when you talk about 600 watt panels you arent talking about the draw...just the combined number of 3 watt diodes?

what you mean?

awesome....like i said i think its lack of light as well ...i think another 500 watts will solve this "problem" i got them rather close together and dont prune much of the canopy just lolli-popped em a bit and took a couple lower fans.

sup NWI ... i myself am 18 days into flower with LED grow. little flowers everywhere =) im using hydroponic flood table and have a 18" scrog goin with 2 357 magnums over a 4x8 table....not enough light...ordered another 500 watter to sandwich in the middle hoping the brings the par up and stops...

is it heat score to post pics on here?

so are you saying you did an all LED grow and the buds were small? not sure what this post is about. sleezy are you going to prune at all?

Hey sandy.. The 357 uses 60 degree lenses on the red part of the spectrum which penetrates quite well but has a pretty small foot print... For a 4x8 table with 75 or so 18" - 2 footers you would need 3 per table. The overlapping of the coverage areas is great for the PAR levels too. FYI I went...

thats cool i think im going to get a smaller 9000 btu air conditioner and vent it out of the chimney in my grow room. this will create a little negative air flow and seep a bit more co2 out of the room but i think bringing the temp down and humidity will make it worth it

@ ninja Why would an LED grow use less nutes?