Recent content by mikadodarkside

i think lenses are good for grows where have you lots of space and want the light to only travel towards the plant. If you are growing in a small room or a crowded room make sure that your walls are covered in a highly reflective mylar like substance. But dont worry about lenses too much as the...

Awesome light Albert111!!!!! so its pulling 36 actual watts? if so then you should get about an OZ at harvest! Pop some seeds!

If you are not growing with LEDs GTFO....

also i forgot to mention.... you should drive your LEDs at like 60-70% off their capacity... this is determined by the resistor in the instractables article.... for the most part Red LEDs drop 2.2-2.5 volts.... and blues drop 3.4 volts... IR LEDs drop 2.2 the same as the reds... and UV bults...

NO NO NO NO NO... fuck man.... the amount of miss information is overwhelming.... there is absolutely nothing wrong with buying cheap chinese or korean LEDS..... you will have a slightly lower performance but the $/lumen are defiantly worth it... It is scales of magnitude more economicaly...

follow some LED grow logs and make your choice... just get something with a good warrantee...

also ozone with literally oxidze your lungs.... so i would focus on the harmfull UV light to get more trics.... no harmful air for you or any other poor soul who lives close by (being comercial people dont think of others in the housing complexes or neighbourhoods)

I wouldn't blame the LED's out right but they do have some issues with leakage or trickle currents. that being said, you grew fine with blackstar 240s before... and im pretty sure its physically impossible for a MJ strain not to flower unless it is stressed or something.... What i think... is...

switching mode transformers are DC-DC transformers..... generally there are Buck (high DC- Lower DC) Boots - (DC to higher DC) or buck boost which can do both. you can also synthesize AC from DC with a comparator wave and a triangular wave form.... but thats a little above the stoner educate...

your wrong... and your kinda a dic.... spectrum is a matter of choice and opinion... ive seen amazing buds form only white LEDs, equaly ive seen plants with too much red do shit withouht other colours present..... dont even post about HID in the LED section... because we are looking to...

one sec, i kinda messed up with the qoutes....

First off i fully intend to call people on their shit. Anyone who thinks that chinese LEDs are way worse then americans LED's is an idiot... maybe 10-20 percent difference in performance.... while at 1/4 the cost...... american companies often fabricate their semiconductors in china.... and...

Nope, go for something with 1-3 year waranty.... if you expect to have this light working for 5-10 years... the company should sure as hell back their product for 1-3years. but nice spectrum....bottom line 90 days is not really a fair warranty for a device that cost 500$. unless you want to take...

I think we can all agree that Ebay has a lot of different products and anything nameless is warent for skepticism. However Ebay has a lot of now name LED's that work just fine. You could source 380,420,450,475,520,580,630,660,730nm 1 or 3 watt Chinese LEDs and build yourself fa killer array...

flush your plants and let them dry out a bit if they are drooping... drop them into flower and see how they behave... fuck em...