Hi I have a 5x5 grow tent and I have two 600W VIPARSPECTRA grow lights in there now. If I added two more would it be to much for that tent or would the tent get to hot in there for the plants? Because right now it seems like the temperature is running a little high in there and just wanted your opinions on this before I spend the money on two more lights.
How much light is to much in a grow tent
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Arnski5000
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If temp is high now I don't see more light making it cooler. Are extracting the warm air out and sending cool air in??
TreeFarmerCharlie
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For that type of LED you want close to 50W per square foot. Those lights only draw 260W so four of them would still be on the low side.
TreeFarmerCharlie
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You really need 5 of those lights for a 5x5 tent.
I would put 4-5 lights in there but how do you keep the temps down in the tent?
TreeFarmerCharlie
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With an exhaust fan. If that isn't enough then you need to air condition the room the tent is in.
Should I add another inline fan? I have one in there now.
TreeFarmerCharlie
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It depends on what you have in there now. You want good airflow through the tent but you don't want it to be like a wind tunnel in there. How hot is it getting in there now and how hot is it in the room the tent is in?
We’ll I have two tents in there one is 5x5 and the other is 3x3 and the exhaust is not ran out the window or anything so I bet that is why the room is getting so hot. It’s like at 90 degrees in the tent so I leave the tent open partially while the lights are on. So I think I just need to figure out and run the exhaust out a window would you agree.
TreeFarmerCharlie
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Yes, you should be venting it outside but you also need to make sure your fan is pushing enough air. What is the CFM rating of the fan you are using?
TreeFarmerCharlie
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That should give you plenty of airflow as long as you have enough ports opened up as intakes. I'd exhaust it out the window and you'll probably see a big difference.
Dr. Who
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How about we just flat out say that those "blurple" lights are NOT the best thing out there for blooming ---- period!
Wasting time on under powered and poorly color banded LED's is never worth the price..
I just got off my butt to finally try out some pretty nice, direct 1K+ replacement LED bank's..
Now then, for your 5x5 tent... I might say that a HLG Lm301B Samsung LED based set with Cree 660nm band reds (rspec - model) run by a Mean well 550 driver would be the small end of what I would get. This unit runs at 480w.
Personally, I just sprung for 3 boards with the Lm301H updated LED's. This delivers more umals of light energy per each LED.
These were built to order for me and cost me just under $500 each vs the $850 for a name brand HLG. Same brand LED's (Samsung and Cree) Plus the same driver unit.
These guys get their components at the same place as HLG too.
You can step up one more level and go to the DE HID equiv. in an 600w HLG system.
Crack yer wallet open for that by HLG or look to about $710 bucks from my custom builder....
Same warranty as the HLG pricey units too...
Wasting time on under powered and poorly color banded LED's is never worth the price..
I just got off my butt to finally try out some pretty nice, direct 1K+ replacement LED bank's..
Now then, for your 5x5 tent... I might say that a HLG Lm301B Samsung LED based set with Cree 660nm band reds (rspec - model) run by a Mean well 550 driver would be the small end of what I would get. This unit runs at 480w.
Personally, I just sprung for 3 boards with the Lm301H updated LED's. This delivers more umals of light energy per each LED.
These were built to order for me and cost me just under $500 each vs the $850 for a name brand HLG. Same brand LED's (Samsung and Cree) Plus the same driver unit.
These guys get their components at the same place as HLG too.
You can step up one more level and go to the DE HID equiv. in an 600w HLG system.
Crack yer wallet open for that by HLG or look to about $710 bucks from my custom builder....
Same warranty as the HLG pricey units too...
TreeFarmerCharlie
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The LM301B and LM301H are the exact same diodes. The "H" is just to market it along with their other horticultural lights.
Dr. Who
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They are to a point but the 301B's deliver 2.6 umal's each. The 301H models - 3.03 umal's.
Both My guy and HLG state this. So does Samsung...... The H models are the newest too. Not just a designation "letter"
But! YES Samsung calls them the new Horticultural edition of the older 301B...
We each get a point...
TreeFarmerCharlie
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Interesting...I was just watching a video the other day where a guy put this debate to rest by showing the specification sheets for both the LM301B and LM301H. I'm wondering where he got those spec sheets, though, if Samsung and HLG are saying something different.