I have some COB LED's that I am building to replace some of the 400's on the ends of the rows. In the aisles I will stick with HID because a two sided LED hanging there would be too bulky and thats where I move around to water plants. You can actually see one of the COB fixtures on the end of the middle row in room B.
One thing I always put on my grows is an Intermatic Panel Guard. Installed on my sub panel it protects the whole grow from power surges.
I'll have to check that out as I installed a 100 amp sub panel for my future work.
You need to weed those pots man. Or are they there for some reason?
It was a cover crop for my 1st (and last) living soil experiment. haha.
Around 2016 with the DE HPS ballasts and 2019 with the DE CMH lamps.
I have no clue how they will do for you, I just know that I personally won't be buying anymore Nanolux stuff. The list says Summit, but were those Nanolux?
Summit is the new range. perhaps the old range with a new name because of problems you mentioned with the old range.
Funny how things go sometimes; I've personally had nothing but problems with Phantom ballasts, as did other people I knew. In fact, it was so bad it convinced me to go with LED lighting back in the day when I upgraded from magnetic ballasts running Philips 860W CDM lamps.
The ONLY phantoms I have had luck with is their Commercial DE's. I wouldn't have bought them if it wasn't for a buddy has a 9 light grow I put together for him, built the whole room and put in his AC, electrical. He helped with manual labor and painting, stuff like that. He had bought the Phantom Commercial DE ballasts before I got involved, probably good for him because I woulda probably turned him on to the Nanolux as I had just picked mine up lol. But yeah after messing with the nanolux ballasts doing warranty exchanges over and over I asked him if his ballasts were still kicking and he mentioned he had zero issues with them, so I picked up 6 and converted one whole room to Phantoms (Room B) and I used the old Nanolux ballasts as replacements in room A, until they all ran out and then I started putting in the Phantoms and Sun Systems as replacements for dead nanolux's. I haven't had any failures yet from either. I picked up the sun system because it's what they had in stock that day and I didn't wanna wait. Had good luck with it and now have a few more. I think I have 3 nanolux ballasts still kicking lol.
Maybe thats the deal, let me know how they work out for you as the years progress. I hope they do good.
The Phantoms I had problems with were 400W and 600W units. I have never run a DE fixture.
You must have been looking at the old picture of Clem lol. He loves digging.
Do you feel the need to add extra heat during the dark cycle as you switch to LED? It's getting cooler and i hear that they need higher all around temps
In my case the dehumidification takes care of enough adding heat.
Very nice! Sounds tasty, for sure
