.I'm curious. What can be defined as top tier led in your opinion?
Well forum here pushes against supporting other products so I'm not going to support a particular product but rather give an opinion on a wide selection of products.
Keep us posted i suspect the hps buds will be more dense and full buds while the led will have airy loose buds, I have been there done that like 5 years ago sure the LED lights improved but lumen output and spectrum makes a massive difference I love led for veg but I personally veg with a 1000w light and I always get fast growth and only a slight knock up on my electric bill even while running a 56 watt air pump a fan a computer a window ac dedicated to the tent and my good ol'work mule the 1000w but I suppose that's all relative because some people can't afford the high month bill. In the end more money doesnt always equal more bud but in general you get what you pay for.At this time in veging in 600 watt hps left side.
Led 150 light 10watts per light comparisons 300 to 400 watt draw on the right side.
Doing home work
Looks like the opposite is happening so far... time will tell
Lol i was looking into building my own piezoelectric ultrasonic fog generator and while looking into already created designs for a driver there was warnings all over the place about being careful not to accidentally generate certain radio wave frequencies because they're used by the military and it's illegal to generate or receive those types of radio waves, DIY in growing can lead you down some weird paths.Radio wave!
Yes the cops know what to look for
Most efficient because it's actually 150 watts not 1000w and so on a 1000w LED burns just as much energy as a 1000w hps and you have to have a mixture in your spectrum so when a few bulbs go out you get to replace that 1000$ light or get it repaired where as when a bulb goes out on an hps you just replace it.
I got a generic one like that at first with the same chips. Philson 600 turned out to be a 100w light. I got 2 meizhi 450s now that has actual draw of 460 all switches on. Huge improvement
The pull from the wall is a valid question when referring to a chinese box style light. They are often over-stated as a compare to wattage or a maximum wattage the LEDs could be driven but aren't driven. With a high efficiency LED, LED watts can about halve that of HID but often a 1200W replacement is like 210w wall draw which is more like 400W of HID if, big emphasis on IF, they are high efficiency which in products misstating their literature they are often not high efficiency otherwise they wouldn't need to play those games. That is where people are asking for actual wall draw on LED. So yes, 800 true watts of LED (even not great quality fixtures) should out perform 800W HID on a watt to watt basis.my first grow and i have to say i also believe in LED lighting. I'm using a few that might have been called "Chinese blurple Crap" but in week 7 of flower i'm looking at some pretty nice buds with about 2 or 3 weeks to go. I don't subscribe to the "how much does it pull from the wall" talk because if that's all that mattered we'd all just get HID lights instead because you'd be paying the same for the power.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the 800+ watts that my 4 lights are pulling from the wall are doing much better than an 800 watt HID would do. ( remember this is my first grow ever )
These pics are from a week ago.
