LED / T5 combo

vennge

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hi everyone, I have acquired a setup very recently. It consists of a 4x4 flood and drain table under a 1000w hps. The room is fairly airtight and vented semi decent as well. It has a/c option if needed but preferably not. The plants are in their 2nd week of bloom. I have an option to use a led fixture consisting of 6 x 48w led strips (sunblaster) along with 4 x T5 54w ho lights as well(sunblaster). They are 4’ in length and cover a 4x4 table. The T5 bulbs have been swapped out for bloom bulbs also. I was told I would be very impressed with the results with plus half the wattage being used along with very minimal heat. Which creates another bonus. Is it worth using this light setup. I have read many positives with sunblaster and again told this is a nice combo. Of course adding more lights to the sides would help with penetration. Also this can hang 4” from the plants and no heat. I have turned it on but not swapped out with the hps.
Looking for input on this. Good or bad I can take the criticism. But I really want to get into led. I will look at cobs down the road but what I have described I have access to right now.

Thanks in advance
Venge
 

whitebb2727

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I love t5 bud. Used a t5 for quite a while. Now use cob led. Smaller space but same concept. I will be adding t5 back.

Some pure par and 10,000k+uva bulbs from Agromax would work great.
 

whitebb2727

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The sunblaster I'm not sure of. I'm sure they use cheap diodes.

In your situation the hps would yield more.

If using led to with quality fixtures.
 

vennge

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Thanks for the reply. The Sunblaster led’s are housed in a 4’ reflector as well and can connect in a daisy chain format with the T5’s up to a max of 8 units. I configured them to 2 groups of 5. So having them approx 2” apart from each other they span 4’ square.
I blv I will not have as much density as the hps but I am looking more for quality and less heat and less expense. But yes a nice yield is nice as well. But the quality of the led fixture I would say is tops as it also works as a continuous run of a heat sink. Again thanks for input as it all helps.
Venge
 
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