HPS Club- SE/DE

Evil-Mobo

Evil-Mobo

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MichiganMedGrower said:
Thanks for sharing that. Have you tested combined types? i already wish I could power and cool another 315 to even the 2 600 Super HPS's out. They already seen happiest in the overlap to me.

It's too early for me to form much of an opinion though.
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No I have not tested combined types yet. After the quantum board testing in the near future I would like to see what CMH/HPS does and might hang some vertical 315's to fill in between the HPS, I think there might be something to this.

But if the Ceramic HPS comes out before then from Hortilux finally then I can skip this idea and just get the Ceramic HPS 600W bulb and test it out in the 3x3
 
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OneHitDone

OneHitDone

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MichiganMedGrower said:
I notice slower plant response and my cheap sunleaves 3 way meter shows less light intensity at about 9 months in my air cooled hoods run on Galaxy ballasts.
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On a ballast note: Glad the galaxy's are working for you but for anyone that asks me I highly recommend against them based on my experience with them and power outage / surges - that is unless you liked the sound of exploding capacitors back in high school electronics class lol :lol:
 
MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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Evil-Mobo said:
That looks great and you're not happy with those results?
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I was happy. Until I started reading all the new testing. I saw the vid where the guys in the white tyvec suits compared a gavita, an LED and a cmh.

The first vid was more subjective review and said the LED had the best smell.

But the gas chromatograph shows 4% higher thc content for the cmh plant. 22% instead of 18%

And a another commercial test showed the same with 10k finishing lamps and it was only neccesary for the last two weeks. When they to them the full cycle here was no improvement.

And DE HPS and cmh together is becoming a standard for yield and quality.

So the toys are upgrading. I wanted to add a third lamp anyway.

So far the results of adding the 315lec are positive.
 
Evil-Mobo

Evil-Mobo

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MichiganMedGrower said:
I was happy. Until I started reading all the new testing. I saw the vid where the guys in the white tyvec suits compared a gavita, an LED and a cmh.

The first vid was more subjective review and said the LED had the best smell.

But the gas chromatograph shows 4% higher thc content for the cmh plant. 22% instead of 18%

And a another commercial test showed the same with 10k finishing lamps and it was only neccesary for the last two weeks. When they to them the full cycle here was no improvement.

And DE HPS and cmh together is becoming a standard for yield and quality.

So the toys are upgrading. I wanted to add a third lamp anyway.

So far the results of adding the 315lec are positive.
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Awesome to know I was thinking of some vertically hung 315's in between the 1K's later on...............
 
MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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OneHitDone said:
On a ballast note: Glad the galaxy's are working for you but for anyone that asks me I highly recommend against them based on my experience with them and power outage / surges - that is unless you liked the sound of exploding capacitors back in high school electronics class lol :lol:
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I live in the land of power outages. 3 years continuous without a glitch. YMMV
 
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ThaiBaby1

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I have a question about DE lights, If they are supposed to be more efficient then why are they so much hotter? and if you have to hang them a lot higher than regular hps where is the advantage?
 
Evil-Mobo

Evil-Mobo

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I have yet to use a DE bulb, but after finding out my Hortilux 1K watt E Ballast will run the DE bulb with no issue I will be trying one out in the near future once I get settled in after the new year. I will just need a proper hood for it is all.
 
MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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Evil-Mobo said:
Awesome to know I was thinking of some vertically hung 315's in between the 1K's later on...............
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I almost did exactly that but I really want to see it in action stand alone. But I could widen my light stand and have a 9' x 3.5 flowering garden along the whole wall.

Damn you Evil-Mobo. I JUST SET EVERYTHING UP!(:
 
Evil-Mobo

Evil-Mobo

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MichiganMedGrower said:
I almost did exactly that but I really want to see it in action stand alone. But I could widen my light stand and have a 9' x 3.5 flowering garden along the whole wall.

Damn you Evil-Mobo. I JUST SET EVERYTHING UP!(:
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I have two vertical sockets here too lol. But I would need the conversion piece for the bulbs.........I'm gonna try the DE first before going this route. If the DE works for me up north then maybe I will make my own grow beast light with the 315's hung vertically in between the two HPS, I figure if there was nothing to this Hortilux wouldn't be spending all this time developing the ceramic HPS.............

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