Pound per plant

so now the full truth is out. You said he is doing it with 3lbs per three lights, so it will be doable for your one light.....only if it was the 1000w HPS
The nutty bud said:
I use 1000 watt 600 watt hps. This is the Frist Time I used led. I set This tent up for the light .
I know pro grower that get 3lbs a light.

So at one third the power I'm asking for one third the yield. This make it equal to hps lights.
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my bad, you clearly mentioned what he was using
 
The BS about LED?......Uh, word on the street is its the shiznit, no BS about it.

Wattage is wattage, regardless of the light that is being used.

Nobody has said that an LED light cannot produce a pound per plant, only that you need more wattage to achieve such goals. Very possible, with proper sources

Even if you were asking about a 250w HPS, or a 315w CMH, they will never be telling you that you will definitely be getting a pound per plant with that setup.

Time for me to hit that button at the top

You have fun now ya hear!
 
I have hps. I use 1000 watts I heat then.
Have To change bulbs b/c the bulb starts go bad in a few weeks.
I have to run coolers and fans.
I have to water more.

The led runs cool. 1 no fan for the light
No new bulbs. 2 55$ per bulb
The led is 120v 3 easy set up time
No blaster. 4 no costly set up
It took me 15 min to set up.
I few eye screws and plugged it in.
I wish I had this led lights 15 years ago.
 
This is growing fast with one light
 

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I have been watching LEDs for years and watched as friends moved that direction and told us about the quality of the grows and tried to estimate some sort of correlation that could be measured between their new lights and traditional HID. The science tells me that all the plants care about is the frequency of the light and its intensity. My power bill tells me why light only in the useful spectrum is so much more efficient, and not just short time, but over the claimed lifespan of these lights, before ANY degradation happens.
For years we have estimated that it takes half the wattage to grow the same pot when comparing LED to HID. 300 watts of LED equals 600 watts of HID. I am starting to question whether this ratio might be a little higher, especially when you get above the 50w per square foot recommendation. LED just seems to have some advantages right out of the gate when it comes to short internodal lengths and the added activity in the water cycle, and that seems to be just hitting the surface of what is going on. The plants seem to be more active overall, under this focused light exactly optimized to their needs.
So it is all about how much actual wattage you are putting out. You can't go by the claims of many of the manufacturers of these new lights, because if they put 100 ten watt LED's on a panel, they are going to call it a 1000w light... but then to eliminate heat and lifespan issues, they drive those LEDs at only 10%, making it only draw 100w from the wall. Since LED light is twice as effective than HID, that 100w seems like a 200w light... but it certainly is not 1000w of light hitting your plants. Buyer beware...
I bought the cheapest LED arrays I could find, at the highest claimed wattage. I ended up with two 3000w lights to run in my 2x4 tent. I measured what they pull, each one of them about 360w. Side by side, that is a lot of light in that little tent. I have no heat problems and this light already seems to be more intense and superior to the 1200w of HID that I used to run. Time will tell, but I am highly interested in threads like this one where people are wondering exactly what I am... is it too good to be true?
 
GeOMaTTiC said:
Time for me to hit that button at the top
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Yeah, me too. I'm sure this guy makes all kinds of sense in person (or at least some ;) ), but all this having to throw his words into a virtual hat and draw them out in different combinations until I come up with some kind of understandable statement is just making my headache grow. And I try to save that kind of aggravation for when I see someone asking a question that they actually want the answer to, lol, instead of wasting it on folks who only ask because they woke up that day thinking they already knew and just want someone to come along and agree with them. I mean... there's no point. Eight pages and the fact that no one has come along, patted you on the head, and agreed with you tells you nothing?! Fawk.
 
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