I'm not sure where best to talk with you about your LED experience. I wonder if you could sum up where your at in LED tech right now. You can keep the science in ur head as I trust your the expert. What I want is your opinion on what to be looking for if I were to go the LED route. I live in a place where heat is a bad issue about 8 months out of the year. I am also growing in a confined place which has a 4' vertical limit as I also choose to clone and raise mothers lower down in the same place. For now the system is stable, but man oh man is my electric bill a bitch. I have to run ac to the space nearly 24 hours a day, exhaust fans, duct fans, all of it to cool off my 600 watt HPS.

Having grown with vegged with T5's for a few months, I'm starting to really appreciate the benefits of lower heat and less electricity. I'd like to see about replacing my 600hps with either T5's or LED's for flowering too, but I'm too afraid I wouldn't replicate what I have or at least close to it. I probably have too much light given the space, which is 2x3x36-40" (which is max height I will let them get). I know both tech's tend not to radiate light which IMO makes them all the better suited for situations where you have a limited floor space footprint.

Are LED's still cost prohibitive for the average Joe? Which paths should I be researching. Maybe T5's are the better solution since I know enough about them to create them from scratch and I know they are nearly as cheap as LED's and likely nearly as effective.
Prodaytrader Reviewed by Prodaytrader on . LED Ahoy! Okay, this becomes my new official grow journal. There's still the krusty/DWC update, but that stuff is going to be hash. pH swings like mad and heat issues from poorly-ventilated spaces caused that to be a complete cockup. The gear: 1 new prototype 50w quad-band+4500K white LED, combo 120/90 degrees. 1 Current-gen 50w tri-band solar-insolation spec LED, fully 120 degrees. 1 current-gen 120w tri-band solar-insolation spec LED, fully 120 degrees. The 120w gets my two largest mothers, Rating: 5