QB96 Coco Hempies

I thought I would jump into the deep end with LED and run the QB96v2Elite. I've been growing, primarily indoors for close to 30 years so I hope that my experience will offset the steep learning curve with LED, and these in particular.
My system is a series of 3,1 meter sq tents daisy chained together with 6" ducting. The first in the line is the drying and cloning tent, followed by the flowering tent, powered by 4 of the QB96's. Lastly will be the veg tent powered by 2 of the QB96's. The veg tent will have the filter inside, and will be pulled thru with a 6" inline, taking the warm most air elsewhere.
The tents, are about 40"x40" so somewhere between a 3x3 and a 4x4.
I was inspired by the threads here at RIU regarding the QB96's and figured I'd give 'em a try.
I got the boards all wired up and hung up in their respective tents. Very impressive units altogether!
I understand that the lighting maps that were done by a member here my not correlate due to the size difference, but they are a good starting point.
I have 2 of the engines hooked up to 1 of the hlg-320h-54a drivers and everything is running smoothly so far.

I do have a few questions about the driver and the two adjustment knobs. I have a DC meter hooked up to each driver and so I can monitor the wattage as well as voltage and current in real time. Not knowing much about electricity, how should I approach setting the two adjustment knobs? Is it better to turn one up/down and rely upon the other? Any experience would be helpful.

I'll be running coco Hempies with mostly organic bottled nutes. The genetic volunteers for running the gauntlet in this new lighting system will 3 seedlings consisting of PeakSeedsBC's SkunkBerry, BeanHo's FreakSativa Blockhead and Richard Williams Seed Co's Trainwreck. a couple of weeks behind are an undetermined # of Second Generation Genetics RosaBerry. I put 16 in water and have maybe 6 that I think are going to make it, 3 that probably won't and 7 that never showed any splitting of the seed shell. I'm not going to fret my poor luck, but I was looking forward to a pheno hunt.

Pictured below are a few pics of my two tents. Nothing exciting yet, but every journey begins with a single step!

That is a nice size tent I think they need to design more tents for some of the more common sized LEDs I'm using a Johnson 6-cob led in a 3x3 tent that is actually more suited for a 2x4 tent

I agree on the tent size!! Over here, in the states its hard to find a 1mx1m tent, but 3x3 and 4x4 are very common. If I had continued with the 315CMH I would loved to have run it in a 1mx1m as I feel that's where its true potential lays. But I have similar opinions about LED. Infact the current wisdom is that 4 of the QB96 in a 4x4 is great, so I'm thinking I'll be stellar in a slightly smaller dimensioned tent.

Haricot Vert said:

I agree on the tent size!! Over here, in the states its hard to find a 1mx1m tent, but 3x3 and 4x4 are very common. If I had continued with the 315CMH I would loved to have run it in a 1mx1m as I feel that's where its true potential lays. But I have similar opinions about LED. Infact the current wisdom is that 4 of the QB96 in a 4x4 is great, so I'm thinking I'll be stellar in a slightly smaller dimensioned tent.

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You've got the right idea I'm considering a 315 cmh how did it perform???

I'm running 340 w. Of cobs in this 3x3 tent I'm doing a single plant scrog the strain is jack herer -x- BlackBerry kush @day#47 if its cool I would like to pull up a chair

@horribleherk
I have only used 315CMH in a 3x3, and 3 of them in a 9x5. They worked exceptionally well in both environments. I think the 315 has enough umph to handle a slightly larger tent, and think a 1mx1m would be ideal.
Welcome aboard. I will continue posting when I have progress to report.
Peace,