Lighting DIY mars conversion. Questions and answers here.

[Baxterwolfe]

Here is a pic from a couple days ago. The cfls are for when I do lst and ponytailing.

I will post another one tonight after I get home from work. Hopefully she will look happier after a day of the lights being raised to a more proper height.

 

[Baxterwolfe]

Here is a couple pics from today. Looks like she is coming out of her slump and possibly stretched fo the light a little.

 

[Baxterwolfe]

Well i had another small seedling and some clones and I turned off 1 of my lights and everything is looking like it is starting to snap out of the mishaps from to wet of soil and lights to close smfh. I am keeping notes for the next grow and I am testing 2 soil mixes to see what blend I like and the plants as well. So moral of the story is 12 cxa2530 in a 2x3 area at 30" is still to much light for little gals haha

 

[BigSm0]

Well i had another small seedling and some clones and I turned off 1 of my lights and everything is looking like it is starting to snap out of the mishaps from to wet of soil and lights to close smfh. I am keeping notes for the next grow and I am testing 2 soil mixes to see what blend I like and the plants as well. So moral of the story is 12 cxa2530 in a 2x3 area at 30" is still to much light for little gals haha

Are you running 2 cobs per 600ma driver? If so that's around 130 watts or so at the cobs not including fans. That's not a crazy amount of light but probably a heck of a lot more than you were using. The 300 panels are equal to roughly 50 cob watts and the 600's are equal to 100 cob watts.

 

[Baxterwolfe]

Are you running 2 cobs per 600ma driver? If so that's around 130 watts or so at the cobs not including fans. That's not a crazy amount of light but probably a heck of a lot more than you were using. The 300 panels are equal to roughly 50 cob watts and the 600's are equal to 100 cob watts.

Yea I am running 2 cobs per driver because I took the drivers out of my third 300. So each case has 2 5000k and 4 3000k 6 cobs total with 3 drivers running everything hehe.

 

[Baxterwolfe]

Here is a pic of the lights one on and one off

 

[BigSm0]

Here is a pic of the lights one on and one off

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They were 300's right? Would you agree they are twice as bright now vs before?

 

[Baxterwolfe]

Yea they for sure put out waaaaay more light. I would love to get a par meter to be able test them sometime.

 

[Gertrude 2]

Nice, great job . just mad how more intense and brighter,even with decent led glasses on its still to intense to look at them cobs directly

 

[BigSm0]

Yea they for sure put out waaaaay more light. I would love to get a par meter to be able test them sometime.

Unfortunately Par meters aren't accurate for different color leds unless it's an expensive unit. The best tool for measurement is a scale. Weighing up hefty yields from cob grows lol.