LED grow lights... input please.

[ledgrower]

ok guys heres a pic i snaged of a guy thats flowering under leds...take a look...

[turtle420]

Hey LEDGrower!

I like the Pot dog shot... I'm sure I'll do it in the future with one of my pups... ehhehehe....

As to the LED growing, please post all that you've gained... correct NM, spacing, etc...

This is very interesting.... to say the least.

[MonkeyRacket]

Yeah was that guy flowering under LEDs using the Solaroasis product?

[nimo]

Any good news on the LEDs?

[turtle420]

Man, I'm starting to think that LEDs are a goverment conspiracy...

Everyone always "blah blah blah" about LEDs... and no fucking plants grown with LEDs...

[MonkeyRacket]

Just wait a few weeks ;-)

[britewire]

LED CAUSES CANCER WHEN IN YOUR BODY!!!!


/enough bullshit..

I've read a test on hennepdesk.nl and it doesn't really bring anything extra to the table cause led's only look brighter cause of the frequency of the lightpulses. the biggest advantage is that you can choose your own colors and color spectrum by mixing all kinds of colored leds.

@ the end of the line it's not worth the investment. Maybe you should look out for plasma-lighting instead...

[PearlJamFan]

Why is everyone complaining about cost? I have been searching for about a week for some good LED's I could use to try a grow. I live in the SW and temps will seen be over 100 every day. I have my cabinet in an oustide shed and it has perfect temps 8 months of the year. During the summer months I have to run an AC unit to keep the cabinet cool. Add up the cost of electricity, and replacement HPS bulbs and LED's pay for themselves within a year.

Here is an order I just placed recently.
1,000 of KTL053AxI-T, 632nm, 7800mcd, 120 degree angle, $38.33/K
2,000 of KTL051AxI-U, 660nm, 5800mcd, 25 degree angle, $35.38/K x 2 $70.76
500 of KTL050BUCI, 464nm, 4000mcd, 30 degree, $116.54 for 500
Shipping by EMS, $30.00
Total $255.63

Before I did more research, I had picked up some 400nm Violet, and 470nm 10mm blue with 40000mcd 15 degree. I will also throw in some Green for the hell of it.


That's $.07303 per LED, sounds good to me. Or should I just get 3K of the 660's?

I know I still have to buy the breadbord or PCB to solder them. But a good 400w HPS is about $200-400. I will save more than $200-300 this summer alone if I can grow with these.

What do you feel about my spectrum.

Here is a link with others I have been talking to,
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.p...6&page=4&pp=15

[PearlJamFan]

Damn 5 minute timeout!

Here is some more info on the LEDs.
KTL053AxI-T, 632nm, 7800mcd, 120 degree angle, http://www.kouhi.com/pdf/114KTL053.pdf
KTL051AxI-U, 660nm, 5800mcd, 25 degree angle, http://www.kouhi.com/pdf/114KTL053.pdf
KTL050BUCI, 464nm, 4000mcd, 30 degree, attached JPG

[ledgrower]

pearl..your goin to need some higher nm ranges for the 600s...email for further [email protected]///