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COB LED light suggestions?

Thanks for the link though, but I won't DIY a led light.

Look guys, thanks for the ads, sales pitches and suggestions but I'm just trying to find THE led that would replace my 1000W HPS. I don't know how realistic it is, but I'm looking for something that would give me equal yields or better. Hence the plan to upgrade. Or at least something that comes close. IR and UV are a must I assume.
It shouldn't be more expensive than my life.

Aghh, whatever. Giving up.
 
Not garbage just old technology i guess i would say hasnt kept up with the times/science. I think those grow journals under the new leds would be more amazing though. if its what you could afford then its what you can afford. Just do me one favor walk into a real hydro store and see what brands of leds they carry. thats all im going to say nothing on the amazon list is in a real grow store that tailors to commercial and hobbyist growing
 
And to be honest, I don't really buy the "cobs are 10 year old tech garbage". Why would others say that cobs are the shit then?

Just to clarify, the AgroLED sun units...are they a good replacement for a 1000W HPS. Yield, quality, heat wise?
 
If you want a replacement for gas discharge technology, those cheap fixtures like galaxy, vipar, mars, roleadro, or unamed chinese brands are not what you are looking for. The technology has not advanced enough to make a cheap fixture perform as well as a gas discharge technology. The fixtures i recommended to you are the best that LED technology has come to replacing 1000w gas discharge. And only three of them are actually comparable with respect to photon efficiency. Fixture efficiency is quite literally directly correlated to fixture cost, as to manufacture a fixture with higher photon efficiency requires more materials which adds cost to the overall product. Most manufacturers know that and so to provide an attractive price to consumers, they sacrifice on the fixtures efficiency. Which is why most cheap LED fixtures are less efficient than gas discharge technology. Campesino has two 200 watt v450 fixtures and would likely require another one or two fixtures to compare with a 600watt HPS. Which has about 1.7umol per watt efficiency. The vipars look to have around 1.2 umol per watt photon efficiency. But even then i might be too generous.

COB technology has their advantages for DIY applications, but i garrentee you they are not more efficient than traditional diode topologys. Which is why none of the commercial fixtures use them because they could not obtain the level of efficiency that they have with chip on board configurations.
 
I know my answers weren't good enough but 10 bucks says this one is right on dangerdan! and the agroled suns come in a 1.5umol per watt efficiency had to do it out =D so two pretty much replace my 600 watt hps =D
 
The agroled looks good, i wouldnt complain with that fixture. From memory on your thread, they were real badass looking too ^.^
 
Tried to push Barth towards them =) no go seems like=D. if you havent check my journal the 8 day growth is amazing seriously. I wish there was more information on the Agroleds But i guess i will have to provide it =D
 
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I have used the Viparspectra for a couple grows now. I get decent results with them, but certainly do not disagree with DANGERDAN
I am pretty sure I am close to maxing out the possibilities with them at around 5-6 oz per light. The lights are my limiting factor...

I am very interested in upgrading lights, but also in keeping my marriage - hopefully I have my priorities straight there :)

Think I'll go check out those AgroLEDs ...
 
I looked fluency almost bought the spider x plus but decided against it after doing my research per watt umol and what I actually needed spider would be over kill was reading with out the fluency control panel burning plants is extremely easy but I am also assuming you guys have never tried any of the top brand less or new ones I should say
 
The people that I see that use cobs are not commercial growers, they just grow a few plants in tents, same with Vipars ,But they get great results with those cobs in way they grow their plants, in tents an small places.
All you gots to do is check-out autoflower. net, all look at all those beautiful plants grown with cobs, that BigSmo, makes. Hundreds on journals to look at.
 
I can’t wait to finish my grow journal day 1 flower. I bet these lights are going to wreck plan on doing 7 plants next time and getting 2 more monkey fans so I can have more foliage etc. I have never used a leave spraying nute I wonder which is good. The AgroLED fall under the commercial lights and is expensive but you get what you pay for with a company who has been in the weed industry for 25 years.
 
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