I know this topic had been beat to death by a lot of people starting to grow etc, etc. I’d appreciate the knowledge because everyone uses different lights.
Here’s my situation. I need to expand my room which means more lights, equipment blah blah. Everything but the lights is pretty standard. I own a Mars hydro TS3000. Which I had been using for veg. But it puts off so much heat. I run a Gavita 1700 for flower, but the thought of buying a couple more makes the pocket pucker.
So can anyone suggest a higher end light that doesn’t produce much heat? While I appreciate the suggestion to build my own, I know it will come I am not that guy! Lol.
Apologizing now, these damn gummies have kicked in.
I will be bumping up my exhaust and such when I expand. My Mars puts out what feels like twice the heat that the gavita does, I just don’t have the budget to but multiple $1000+ lights.
I honestly couldn’t tell you what the temp difference is lights on to off. I’m sleeping when the lights are off and just have a normal digital temp guage. Nothing wifi.
I picked up the ChilLED 1000W commercial light and it dosnt produce that much heat. Have done 3 runs with it so far. Recommend - but heads up no UV or IR (they do have addon that take care of that but I dont like the idea of addons - include it in the light - dont be greedy)
But if the 1000W too much they have lower models (600w i think)
OR I just bought a Geekbeast pro 650w light - has UV and IR - is cheaper - but havent done a full grow with it yet - seems ok so far.
I took a quick look, and they look super cool. Sent myself the link to read more in to when I have the time. I appreciate it. It’s just SO hard to spend that much lol. I want to be able to afford it
I’m not versed at all in the lights. That’s how I ended up where I am. Mars was suggested, I bought it, then was told it was shit lol. Heard gavita was supposed to be this awesome light, so I bought it. Constant revolution of my growing experience haha!!! Buying stuff and realizing it’s not all it’s supposed to be.
I don’t even know what hlg is lol, but I’m going to take some time and check out everything that’s been suggested. At the very least I’ll learn a ton about lights. What’s nice is that people suggest lights I’d probably never even come across trying to Google my way around.
Bruce Bugbee has some great YouTube videos on lighting. How efficient the lights are and the actual power draw from the wall are 2 major factors and are going to determine how much actual light your getting or total ppfd. 3 year warranty seems pretty and standard 5 years warranty is good. Spectrum is also important but different grows will have slightly different needs.
i paid 1100 for my light. after i set it up and my plants started getting big i realized i would have been better off with 2 lights to adjust to plant heights. it would have been cheaper
There’s also some super cheap sunritek LEDs but they are not name brand, $500 USD for a MH660 I think it’s called. Their website not being secured is pretty sketchy though I don’t think I would enter any personal info on there. The Floraflexs ones are $650 USD If you get it on a few months back order but they are reputable company
I’ve had Mars hydro they seem cheap and do put off a lot of heat I have 2 hlg100 and 1 sf2000 the sf2000 kills the hlg same price if you buy 2 of the hlg I bolted mine together(don’t try at home unless you no what your doing) into one light like the sf2000
