a lighting table setup good or bad (a buddies fued)

he guys im helping a budy setup and he made a box set up for soiled plants (wut he thinks will be a sea of green) the box is 5ft by 7ft long by 9.5 inches deep. he has two tracks with two 1000watt lights, One light is a hooded fan light, the other a flat hood. he thinks if he puts the light side by side it will maximize the lighting for his crop, I think he should split the box and have two 2.5 by 7ft boxes with a 1.5ft row in the middle with reflector panels on either side of the middle row. Wut do you guys think is it better to stick with one big box or to seperate the boxes?

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Okay, the light is going to shine from both lights, intersecting in the middle, were you will get more intense rays giving the plants more light, that's why you should use one box. My 2 cents

but the plants in the middle will get suffocated therefore producing less bud (my reply) aswell as you wont be able to get into the bed in the middle at 5ft wide
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