About those LED lights

[Crispyfried]

I was reading that in order to equal one decent HID light, you need a panel of like 52 LED grow bars. One LED grow bar goes for $150, so that's $7800 vs like $300 for the HID. You do get greater bulb life, but 52
led bars, with three light clusters per bar, is going to take up quite a lot of space, so there's absolutely no real advantage. So don't waste your money on LEDs.

Crispyfried Reviewed by Crispyfried on 01-27-2006. About those LED lights I was reading that in order to equal one decent HID light, you need a panel of like 52 LED grow bars. One LED grow bar goes for $150, so that's $7800 vs like $300 for the HID. You do get greater bulb life, but 52 led bars, with three light clusters per bar, is going to take up quite a lot of space, so there's absolutely no real advantage. So don't waste your money on LEDs. Rating: 5

[turtle420]

I was reading that in order to equal one decent HID light, you need a panel of like 52 LED grow bars. One LED grow bar goes for $150, so that's $7800 vs like $300 for the HID. You do get greater bulb life, but 52
led bars, with three light clusters per bar, is going to take up quite a lot of space, so there's absolutely no real advantage. So don't waste your money on LEDs.

That's one way to look at the situation...

We've got a LED thread over @ the Advanced forum...

[Crispyfried]

Ah yes I see.

[Crispyfried]

And here's a pdf that explains a lot

http://www.ledtronics.com/ds/plantled/Commercial-Growing-Analysis-Recommend-s.pdf#search='led%20plant%20bar%20pdf'

[sheist]

www.ledgrowlights.com what do you think?

check the specs on the bulbs

[turtle420]

www.ledgrowlights.com what do you think?

check the specs on the bulbs

They look great, but I've read the information (couple of months ago) and my conclusion, was the HIDs are better right now... my 2 cents..

[sheist]

has anyone banged out the experiment?? cus i'm thinkin about buying a few 630nm red LED and 470nm blue LED.. get that big neo stash of bulbs, throw everything on, i should be able to bang out a good grow

[turtle420]

has anyone banged out the experiment?? cus i'm thinkin about buying a few 630nm red LED and 470nm blue LED.. get that big neo stash of bulbs, throw everything on, i should be able to bang out a good grow

Dude, if you do it, please keep us posted... Very interesting to see your results.

[BigBlock]

LEDs have absolutely no business in growing marijuana. Both HID, and fluorescents provide MUCH more lumens for the same wattage, cost less, and work better for growing anyway. Do not waste your money on LEDs. They are NOT for growing.

[sheist]

lumens are the measure of light according to the human eye.. not the plant, so you can't go based on that.. i dun understand how u can say they ahve no business with workin mary j, when they've worked on numerous plants.. they deliver more of the spectrum... i HOPE u read the other LED threads, we've been researchin this for a minute..


this is all experimental.. its been proven to work on other plants, and they're using it in space.. that SHOULD be proof enough that they should work on a mary, its not a mutant ninja turtle, its a plant..