LED GROW TEST. 126W hydro grow led VS. 180W pro source LED LIGHT

[potofgold]

well folks the time has come to test out these two differnt led lights. i have one 180w pro source world wide (jumbo ufo) testing agianst a 126w Hydro Grow led light. both lights use some differnt color leds. their has been alot of debait over witch light is better! well its time to find out.



every thing is equal on both grow areas, same feeding out of one bucket, both have equal mylar. same room, fame fan, same size pots same soil. every thing the same but the light.



i have 2 hindu skunks, and 4 blue dreams. split equal between both lights. the hindu skunks are at both point of the triangles. both will be veged for the same amount of time 24/0.



today is the clones first day and their all a little streesed out from the drive home. the hindu skunks look both more stressed then the others. but give them a day or two and they hopfuly should bounch back. (i just transplanted them.)



so let the test begain!!!!!!

[FreeDaHerb]

lookin good! Will be watching this one :thumbsup: :jointsmile:

[potofgold]

lookin good! Will be watching this one :thumbsup: :jointsmile:

yep it should be a fun one.

[potofgold]

and befor anyone says anything i will be putting a wall up once i have to raise the light higher. right now ive checked and check to make sure no light was crossing each other grow area.

look how black each grow pot is from the other side.

[Hocmat]

Sweet! I will be watching, :jointsmile:

[potofgold]

i just hope both hindu skunks make it? i bout some hindu skunk bud today while i was at the club abd that stuff was killer, and their both big yeilders. cant wait.

[GetThisOrDie]

sweet! I loved your other LED grow so im definitely watching this one.

[potofgold]

here you go. their is a wood wall lite proof from each grow area. i actuly put a wall up because i had to raise my 180w lite up for a little bit, the clones dont like it close at all, so i moved it up to 15" over the nite and moved it down to the recomended 10" with half led power turned on.

the hindu skunk that i thought were going to die came back last nite. both of them are standing up, but the one on the 180w side was looking like it was dead then she just stood up and it taking off now since i raised the lite last nite.

on the 126w side i have the lite @ 6" and their seems to be no stress from that. they are all standing like they should be. that just shows the diff between the lites one you can have close and one you cant when their just baby clones.

[potofgold]

i will post some pics today since i count it the first day since it will be 24hrs. then ill post pics once a week from their on, i like the once a week because its always a big change and you guys can see the differnce better.

[potofgold]

here are some updated pics of both lites. check out how much better the Hindu skunk is doing now with the 180w. i thought she was going to die, then i woke up this moring and she was standing up alot better. i have the 126w at 6" and the 180w at 10" and half of the leds turned on, like PS told me to do.

[Hasjman]

Nice set-up and certainly interested in what's going to happen. What kind of LED's are you using 620-630 nm or 660nm? What is the ratio and which colours?

There's a new LED out which uses quad band R/B/O/Y. Anybody tried it yet? What works better quad band or tri-band?

Keep up this kind of testing Potofgold!:thumbsup:

[potofgold]

hydro grow led keept their word, even better they sent the money to me eirly, i made a deal that i will pay for the light and once i hit 4 weeks of flowering my money would be refunded in full to me. well today i got a call from hydro grow saying my money was already refunded to me and the light is mine for free, just light the deal but was better. since their were people saying that she was going to rip me off. sure inoff my money was in my bank account. that says alot to me when people keep their word like that. thanks hydro grow!! every thing she has said to me has been true so fare like foot print pentration, ect..



ps. i looked at the plants today and their looking great for being only 3 days old. and the pro source plants are doing alot better with the light raised up now they srating to take off. hydro girls plants are looking great also, they seem to love the light @ 6". ill post pics tomarrow and you guys can see for your selfs.

[potofgold]

Nice set-up and certainly interested in what's going to happen. What kind of LED's are you using 620-630 nm or 660nm? What is the ratio and which colours?

There's a new LED out which uses quad band R/B/O/Y. Anybody tried it yet? What works better quad band or tri-band?

Keep up this kind of testing Potofgold!:thumbsup:

i know the PS light is a 5-ban but dont know any specs on any of the lights as fair as NM. i would never you a light the using yellow, cannabis dosent use gree or yellow, so i have read and been told.

[potofgold]

alright its picture time! today my girls are 5 days old. so lets see what each light did in 5 days. i am also going to give them a feeding tonight.

some reason the pro source hindu skunk dosent seem to like the 180w? all the others are doing fine but this girl keeps going threw weird moods

here are the Hydro grow 126w first

[potofgold]

here are the 180w pro source

[EvilCartman]

Interesting thread, definitely gonna stick around for the show. :thumbsup:

How are your temps on this grow? Are they running lower than on the last grow?

[potofgold]

Interesting thread, definitely gonna stick around for the show. :thumbsup:

How are your temps on this grow? Are they running lower than on the last grow?

oh ya way lower. its been around 72-78F* right on the money.

[potofgold]

alright guys rember how i was saying i wanted to use my special veg nutes? will yesterday night i feed them with it and just the nest day looked what happen. pretty crazy right? just 1 day

here are the pro source pics first

[potofgold]

heres the 126w hydro grow pics

[potofgold]

woops i for got the pics of all 3 pro source plants

[bigsby]

Little late but I'm in. Traveling / working at the moment so no time to follow stuff.

[khyberkitsune]

Coming to watch, since I am a Hindu Skunk lover and I have mass amounts of it under LED right now.

[dopet4h2c0]

lol what happend here this thread is from 09 so what light won:wtf:

[khyberkitsune]

Well the last author post was from like 9 months ago, so this could indeed be a defunct thread.

[facehouse]

Hey, just to let the readers know, STAY AWAY FROM HYDRO GROW LED at all costs!
This company and its owner Cammie McKenzie (aka Cameron Scott Wieldraayer) have a long history of ripping people off.

Just google it, you'll find lots of crazy stuff.

[LetsSeeYa]

Hey, just to let the readers know, STAY AWAY FROM HYDRO GROW LED at all costs!
This company and its owner Cammie McKenzie (aka Cameron Scott Wieldraayer) have a long history of ripping people off.

Just google it, you'll find lots of crazy stuff.

Damn i didnt look at the date, but iv heard about this person ripping off people. I wonder if this was a set up that didnt take, because the word got out, iv hears she's still out and cant be found.

I was wondering when he didnt even know the specs of the lights:wtf:



:rasta:

[khyberkitsune]

"iv hears she's still out and cant be found."

Latest rumor in the mill is she's taken to ripping people off for car parts.

[oldmac]

Yup, HE posted here as "LEDgirl", was humping his LED grow lights here, and basically got run off by serious LED users.

He went over to IC Mag, and paid the money to be in the "vendors" section. Even gave away some lights to get people to use and I'm not sure what happened, he and all his posts there are now gone. He did screw up at least one great thread on LEDs outside the vendor area, a real pain in the ass.

He also had a deal, that if a user was to post on a forum like here or do a youtube video proclaiming how good the lights were, you got like a 50% discount.

That's what potofgold was doing here, but I think his high quality Chinese produced lights caught fire and burned his house down.:D
OM

[facehouse]

He also had a deal, that if a user was to post on a forum like here or do a youtube video proclaiming how good the lights were, you got like a 50% discount.


That's pretty ridiculous.

[oldmac]

....but true. He was basically shilling a crappy product, but roped people in.

It is one of the reason's to be wary of some threads and YouTube posts.
Just advertiseing.

OM

[rattlingdags]

Be very wary. I found 3 companies from the UK and Europe selling LED's and after only a few months of being in business are already in receivership. It was time well spent checking them out before throwing hard earned money away. Actually I then found this forum and have since purchased 2 lights from khyberkitsune's UK division :)

[oldmac]

Helo rattlingdags,

Welcome to the boards, and thanks for mentioning kyber's lights.

While I have found him to be very knowledge about light theroy, I have been a little afraid of what he' might be selling, since they are mfg off shore.
Just recently stra8outaweed posted something, I realized he was using Chinese produced lights, and I've been very impressed with his growing.
But like he said, they are not like cheap UFO,s, cost more to produce....but you get what you pay for.

Good growing to you
OM

[rattlingdags]

Thanks for the welcome Oldmac. This forum is really quite addictive and certainly a wealth of information and helpful people.

I'd just finished reading one of stra8's growlogs and as impressed as I was with his lights, I was just as impressed with his great plant management skills; and that to me was/is just as much a key to his growing success. It was a really impressive growlog for more than just great lights.
I have alot of lurking, reading and learning to do from all you experts.
Happy growing oldmac and seasons greetings :)

[stra8outtaWeed]

thanks for the good words OM & RD :jointsmile:

[khyberkitsune]

Helo rattlingdags,

Welcome to the boards, and thanks for mentioning kyber's lights.

While I have found him to be very knowledge about light theroy, I have been a little afraid of what he' might be selling, since they are mfg off shore.
Just recently stra8outaweed posted something, I realized he was using Chinese produced lights, and I've been very impressed with his growing.
But like he said, they are not like cheap UFO,s, cost more to produce....but you get what you pay for.

Good growing to you
OM

I was originally afraid when I first started going to China to find a suitable manufacturer. It certainly didn't help that the only Chinese I knew came from 4 years as an apprenticed oriental chef when I was a teenager, so I could only speak in their language when I wanted to enquire about food, otherwise I had to deal with 'Chinglish' which was about as confusing as JPT3-level Japanese.

The first two companies I went to SUCKED. Sure they had everything, but the manufacturing equipment was dirt cheap, poorly calibrated, and much more. First test run of lights from each company failed miserably, as they had practically ZERO clue on how to handle the extreme heat of high power SMDs, they were still used to working with 5mm and 10mm tail-through diodes.

So I spent another week in Shenzhen trying to find a proper manufacturer. No dice, had to come back to the USA and wait another couple months to get another VISA to China.

I think I found a good company on my fourth visit out there. It took about 6 months to find an appropriate manufacturer that wouldn't screw up and would consistently keep things to my specifications. Such a pain, but sometimes that is what you have to do to ensure you're getting a proper product!

[khyberkitsune]

Hey Rattlingdags, could you shoot me an e-mail to techkitsune at gmail dot com? I need to talk to you about the equipment you obtained from my company, ASAP.

[rattlingdags]

Have just sent you a mail khyberkitsune :)