Club 315w lec

Yodaweed

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LED's are good, but LEC is superior, in my experience. Case in point, the same cut of Grape Ape under LED, and LEC.

Under LED (Area 51)
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The Grape Ape under the LED looks good, has some traces of purple, and decent resin production.

Under LEC (Phantom)
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Grape Ape under LEC is pure purple, has better resin production, and a much stronger aroma.


I've got 6" inline fans on each of the tents for exhaust, but the original question was if I was using cooled hoods, or not, you silly goose.
What a huge difference that spectrum and UV makes, so much more resin. I use those area 51 lights, are those the RW150 or the SGS160?
 

ThaMagnificent

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There's an air cooled hood you can buy I think it's a hydro farm brand I will look it up for you in a bit. Growers house sells it and they also sell the prism ballast and Phillips bulbs as a kit. If I was buying a 315 today this is what I would look into. You would then have a remote ballast and AC hood I can't imagine how much better the 315 would run temp wise if this was one was looking for.

Reflector:
http://growershouse.com/phantom-315w-ceramic-metal-halide-cmh-reflector

AC kit:
http://growershouse.com/phantom-lens-system-phr3150-reflector-lens-w-flange-cooling-kit

Ballast:
http://growershouse.com/prism-lighting-science-315w-ceramic-mh-ballast-120-240v

The only other thing I'd consider would be the SS 315's which work great and I owned once. The prism ballast was being sold by them with the bulb not long ago as a kit for a great price, I'm sure they will have some kind of 420 sale coming..........

Just my $0.02
YMMV
Interesting.... External ballast...This might bring some heat down alone?

You've given me that much more to consider now lol.... SS or these..Hmmm...
 

SensiPuff

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Which reflector did you go with?

Thinking of getting that cmh conversion kit
Growers house - sun system reflector.
http://growershouse.com/sun-system-lec-brand-315-neutron-cmh-reflector
It's small and it's cheap. I didn't want to run an enormous vertical reflector in my tent. Just in case you are wondering the prism remote ballast + phillips bulb came in a package. Altogether for the whole system my cart total was 270 + 20 for shipping. What a steal if I say so myself.
 

pinner420

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They'd grow just as fast with just the 315w bulb, hell even a couple of E27 household LED bulbs would work at that stage. Serious waste of electricity.
Ya with pretty outdated stuff. Its hard to let go of a light that serves so well... on the wish list....
 

714steadyeddie

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Growers house - sun system reflector.
http://growershouse.com/sun-system-lec-brand-315-neutron-cmh-reflector
It's small and it's cheap. I didn't want to run an enormous vertical reflector in my tent. Just in case you are wondering the prism remote ballast + phillips bulb came in a package. Altogether for the whole system my cart total was 270 + 20 for shipping. What a steal if I say so myself.
Nice, I have an over sized air cooled hood. Probably too big for a 315 Phillips
 
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