California Light Works reviews?

sandman83

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Looking at the following to get some supplemental side lighting and something to use during the summer when temps are way up. Are these a decent brand/comparable to 400w HPS at the wall?

California Light Works SolarXtreme 500 LED Grow Light - 400W COB System
 

bk78

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Looking at the following to get some supplemental side lighting and something to use during the summer when temps are way up. Are these a decent brand/comparable to 400w HPS at the wall?

California Light Works SolarXtreme 500 LED Grow Light - 400W COB System
I ran the solar extreme and they are definitely comparable to a 400hps
 

Airwalker16

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Anyone else weirded out by all the threads recently on CLW? They've never Ever EVER been popular or even mentioned really here, until this like, last month or so.
 

sandman83

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Anyone else weirded out by all the threads recently on CLW? They've never Ever EVER been popular or even mentioned really here, until this like, last month or so.
guilty, I got a black friday email about it and was curious. All the LED brands sound weird to me so I didn't know any different.
 

CobKits

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ive got a handful of the 160W solarstorm 220s that are pretty good. the later series with the osram diodes (you can tell them by the pattern, more diodes, spaced closer together, in 2 rows of 4. older 'solarflare' series used crappy diodes

they are pretty handy for easily lighting up a 3x3 veg tent and, 4 of them can do a 4x4 well (and spread out better than the 400 and 800 series which had too much light packed together and necessitated high hanging.) back when i was using them for primary lighting i got better results with the 4 spread out than one 880

theyre a basic light, not dimmable (but really not neessary in that size). decent efficiency similar to a DE HPS in the 1.6 umol/J system efficiency, with better spectrum and longer life. build quality is great they have a pretty sizeable heatsink and ive never seen a fan go

i can let a few go for $175 ea if anybody needs them. i still use them to this day here and there, but i had several tents worth, so i have a bunch laying around that all have less than a year's use on them. msg me or email.
 
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