Lighting Blue mystic under BigSmO's cob lights

[Strocat]

Swap the leds in that panel for some cobs and I'm sure you'd clear the 1gpw easily

I haven't a clue how to do that.

I'd love to learn though. I have a 180 watt ufo with some diodes dying in it and I'd love to put some cobs into it.

 

[BigSm0]

Once you do one you'll do them all. Open the case and snap a picture of the drivers inside. You can usually double the light output and still stay below the wall wattage.

 

[bob142g]

 

[bob142g]

Spread her little


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[Puddentane]

@BigSm0 see what you did! Now He will have to go to the camera shop and invest in a fish eye or wide angle lens. These lights are in fact rather expensive. You will need good camera gear, tents to fit them in, and maybe even a bouncer at the door... lol.

That is a really happy plant. You guys are crushing it.

 

[BigSm0]

You just greatly increased the surface area. More leaves getting light the better. I'm thoroughly impressed.

 

[BigSm0]

@BigSm0 see what you did! Now He will have to go to the camera shop and invest in a fish eye or wide angle lens. These lights are in fact rather expensive. You will need good camera gear, tents to fit them in, and maybe even a bouncer at the door... lol.

That is a really happy plant. You guys are crushing it.

Lol what do you say puddentane. Think we are on to something here. A big percentage of the forum are watching crazy things happen under low wattage. I'd hate to say say it but I think we are on to something pretty big here. Either plants don't need as much or all those efficiency calculations actually work. :smoking:

 

[BigSm0]

blue mystic can do ya right. I just harvested/smoked the hell out of and "helped" people out with some.

I ended up with 124 grams dry .. grew her in 3.5 gallons of soil and fed with fox farm trio + all their soluble powders.

I was impressed as I got those numbers under a single mars 300.. got real close to 1 gram per watt


I got 8 branches full of bud all this size. gotta love fox farms open sesame,beastie bloomz and cha ching.

It was super potent or anything but man the flavor was fantastic.. and when i say not super potent .. it was still damn fine smoke .. I've just had stronger.

here's 3 pics of her.


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From an efficiency side of things the light you used and bob is using is very similar in par wattage. The cob does have a fuller spectrum which has proven to be beneficial too. The main benefit in my eyes is the 80w less needed to run the cob and the additional heat savings from the 80w difference. It is rather low but it's still unnecessary. 450btu of heat less.

 

[Puddentane]

Lol what do you say puddentane. Think we are on to something here. A big percentage of the forum are watching crazy things happen under low wattage. I'd hate to say say it but I think we are on to something pretty big here. Either plants don't need as much or all those efficiency calculations actually work. :smoking:

Actually I think we are exposing something bigger than a quality light. Measuring grow lights by wattage is like measuring performance cars based on horsepower. Never has worked and it will not start working just because someone says it. COBWATTS. this is the measurement that we should start working with in this field. One way to advance this is to measure home and commercial light systems by PAR only. It gets pretty ugly when the PAR meter comes out.

One thing that Would be really interesting to see is a series of measurements with a PAR AND LUX meter. Looking at the measurements side by side would be a somewhat crude, but workable measure that most home growers could check rather cheaply. If you know that you needed X exposure with your camera from y distanc, you could get an idea of where the holes in coverage are and if you have as much light as you think you do.

 

[BigSm0]

Actually I think we are exposing something bigger than a quality light. Measuring grow lights by wattage is like measuring performance cars based on horsepower. Never has worked and it will not start working just because someone says it. COBWATTS. this is the measurement that we should start working with in this field. One way to advance this is to measure home and commercial light systems by PAR only. It gets pretty ugly when the PAR meter comes out.

One thing that Would be really interesting to see is a series of measurements with a PAR AND LUX meter. Looking at the measurements side by side would be a somewhat crude, but workable measure that most home growers could check rather cheaply. If you know that you needed X exposure with your camera from y distanc, you could get an idea of where the holes in coverage are and if you have as much light as you think you do.

I have some graphs of a single cob at 34w vs an epistar LED at 131 watts. This was the wattage used to fit them both on the same scale. I couldn't imagine the cob at 4 times it's wattage to make it a fair comparison.