Calling all lighting gurus

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bProlific

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Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum and cannot post links, if you would be so kind as to like this post then I should be able to share the links for the whitespace below.

I hope to ask for your expert opinion on a new lighting option that has been made available to me.

I currently run 6 x Quantum boards as 3 panels @260watt each.

Someone offered me the below lights which have very interesting light distribution characteristics but I must admit that I cannot deduce if this will be better than the quantum I have.



I have the datasheets here :



your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
 
freemanjack

freemanjack

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bProlific said:
Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum and cannot post links, if you would be so kind as to like this post then I should be able to share the links for the whitespace below.

I hope to ask for your expert opinion on a new lighting option that has been made available to me.

I currently run 6 x Quantum boards as 3 panels @260watt each.

Someone offered me the below lights which have very interesting light distribution characteristics but I must admit that I cannot deduce if this will be better than the quantum I have.



I have the datasheets here :



your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
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If you still cant post the link you need to then at least the name of the product would give us something to work from. Generally to assess the efficacy of different full spectrum lights you simply compare the lum/watt ratings, more lum/watt = more efficient = more weed for same watts.
 
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bProlific

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Thank you to everyone for the likes, for some reason it still won't let me post saying I need 3 more likes.

The product is Gro-Tron. It is designed in South-Africa ( my home country ) and there really isn't enough info on the web. I really need to share the datasheets. maybe try a google with Caelus grow-tron and our country .co.za

From an efficiency perspective, I think these lights are far less impressive than the competition. The spectrum and control of the spectrum is great and the par spread is ( if true ) fantastic.
 
freemanjack

freemanjack

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bProlific said:
Thank you to everyone for the likes, for some reason it still won't let me post saying I need 3 more likes.

The product is Gro-Tron. It is designed in South-Africa ( my home country ) and there really isn't enough info on the web. I really need to share the datasheets. maybe try a google with Caelus grow-tron and our country .co.za

From an efficiency perspective, I think these lights are far less impressive than the competition. The spectrum and control of the spectrum is great and the par spread is ( if true ) fantastic.
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https://www.livecopper.co.za/products/caelus-gro-tron-laser-grow-system
is that our light under discussion?
 
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bProlific

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Yip , those. I have the full data sheets that go into the science of how they manage to keep par consistant accross the whole footprint.

I can get these for slightly less than a 260watt qautum kit. Though they are only 120watt but par seems to be... Well, on par.
 
ANC

ANC

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Jesus no, almost 10 grand for 120W. I bought 1000W of samsung trips from digikey with a driver for 7grand. I still need two more drivers so the total will be about the same, 10 times the light.
 
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bProlific

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ANC said:
Jesus no, almost 10 grand for 120W. I bought 1000W of samsung trips from digikey with a driver for 7grand. I still need two more drivers so the total will be about the same, 10 times the light.
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I hear you man but I'm buying these at 4.9k ( around 370 US ) .

I am mobile now. Some nice people gave me more likes so I will try to post the data sheets when I get home
 
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ANC

ANC

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Still feels like a ripoff. 100 to 120W of Samsung lm561C is a bit shy of R800 in singles, and a driver should be under R1000.
 
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predxpred

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bProlific said:
Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum and cannot post links, if you would be so kind as to like this post then I should be able to share the links for the whitespace below.

I hope to ask for your expert opinion on a new lighting option that has been made available to me.

I currently run 6 x Quantum boards as 3 panels @260watt each.

Someone offered me the below lights which have very interesting light distribution characteristics but I must admit that I cannot deduce if this will be better than the quantum I have.



I have the datasheets here :



your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
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Hey i actually received these lights as a gift from a friend as he used them very often. I had a question as previously i have just run LEDs but just with cables that connect to a outlet. What do i have to connect the input cable to in order to run these lights? I have never seen a light like this or cables like it but the light looks super interesting and i would like to try it. Thanks!
 
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Randomblame

Randomblame

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Those 3 red/blue COBs look like the cheap generic 100w COBs you can get for 2$ from e3ay.
I don't believe a few laser diodes can compensate the lack in efficiency.
They do so much jigging but use the cheapest COB's one can get??? That makes no sense to me.
 
ANC

ANC

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Yeah, people are stupid, more often than not.
I don't even lift a finger or catch my breath any longer when I see people pick up Mars lights at the hydro shop.
Planning to maybe sell a few of my Series F strip lights locally to at least have a few good units on the market for others.
Probably got to put down about $4000 dollars to make enough units to make it profitable by economies of scale. That's gonna take a little saving.
 
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