damiandas
Active Member
Hello everyone!
I came upon this amazing forum thanks to @Growmau5 who inspired me to switch over from HPS to LED with his amazing tutorial videos (also if you are reading this, congrats on your new journey with the chilled guys, you deserve to live doing what you love!).
While I'm trying to get as much information as I can, I'm still on the verge of making my first buy, but I need a few tips.
I'm currently growing in a wooden 80cmx80cmx150cm (2.5'x2.5'.x5' in feet if i'm not mistaken) growbox with a 400w HPS light.
The issue I want to address is heat, I have a cooltube and a big ass fan, but summer over here is hell. And even though i'm still going through winter, I know SUMMER IS COMING.
My second issue is that I absolutely have to do the shipping through a courier (Fedex,UPS,etc) since I don't trust at all my local country mail.
I spoke with the people at Rapid Led and they advised me that for my tent size (between a 2x2 and a 3x3 but with only 5' tall) I will be just fine with the CREE CXB3590 Triple COB Kit running at 2.1mA.
This will give me about 226w with the LEDs running almost 76w.
I know this is not ideal, since it will be better to run lets say 6 cxb3590 at 1400mA, that will give me 50w a piece and about 300w (that I could dim if it is too much for my space)
Shipping to my country costs about half a kit for 1 ($150) and $250 for two of them so i'm kind of indecisive between going 1 kit at 2.1 or just go full metal and buy 2 of those kits.
Or perhaps going for 2 VERO29 Triple COB Array Kit and saving around $160.
I chose this site since it does mail to my country and also has well made (in my opinion) full kit that I only have to mount and use.
I'm open to new ideas or maybe you know of cheaper sites with kits like those.
Lastly, I'm sorry for the big ass post and I also apologize if I come way to frontal or if I have gramatical errors since english is not my first language.
Thanks in advance to everyone who decides to post!
I came upon this amazing forum thanks to @Growmau5 who inspired me to switch over from HPS to LED with his amazing tutorial videos (also if you are reading this, congrats on your new journey with the chilled guys, you deserve to live doing what you love!).
While I'm trying to get as much information as I can, I'm still on the verge of making my first buy, but I need a few tips.
I'm currently growing in a wooden 80cmx80cmx150cm (2.5'x2.5'.x5' in feet if i'm not mistaken) growbox with a 400w HPS light.
The issue I want to address is heat, I have a cooltube and a big ass fan, but summer over here is hell. And even though i'm still going through winter, I know SUMMER IS COMING.
My second issue is that I absolutely have to do the shipping through a courier (Fedex,UPS,etc) since I don't trust at all my local country mail.
I spoke with the people at Rapid Led and they advised me that for my tent size (between a 2x2 and a 3x3 but with only 5' tall) I will be just fine with the CREE CXB3590 Triple COB Kit running at 2.1mA.
This will give me about 226w with the LEDs running almost 76w.
I know this is not ideal, since it will be better to run lets say 6 cxb3590 at 1400mA, that will give me 50w a piece and about 300w (that I could dim if it is too much for my space)
Shipping to my country costs about half a kit for 1 ($150) and $250 for two of them so i'm kind of indecisive between going 1 kit at 2.1 or just go full metal and buy 2 of those kits.
Or perhaps going for 2 VERO29 Triple COB Array Kit and saving around $160.
I chose this site since it does mail to my country and also has well made (in my opinion) full kit that I only have to mount and use.
I'm open to new ideas or maybe you know of cheaper sites with kits like those.
Lastly, I'm sorry for the big ass post and I also apologize if I come way to frontal or if I have gramatical errors since english is not my first language.
Thanks in advance to everyone who decides to post!
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