**ULTIMATE LED TEST** *GLH Spectra 290* VS *Blackstar 500* VS *Hydro Grow LED 336X*

[Beefbisquit]

yea ive seen some great grows with the 500's.

I like my Blackstar's....

....but I love my Pro-grows



I want to try Haight Solid State LED's, or the Solar Flare LED from California Light works next.... Advanced LED's look killer too; seen some great things from those Diamond Series.

 

[curly604]

hey beef i would stay away from haight solid state they are not built up to standard no fans or apparent heat sink .... ive heard people having issues with browning around there diodes from overheating .... the rest of those sound interesting for sure though

 

[dickkhead]

I like my Blackstar's....

....but I love my Pro-grows



I want to try Haight Solid State LED's, or the Solar Flare LED from California Light works next.... Advanced LED's look killer too; seen some great things from those Diamond Series.

my solar flare will be her this week

 

[Beefbisquit]

hey beef i would stay away from haight solid state they are not built up to standard no fans or apparent heat sink .... ive heard people having issues with browning around there diodes from overheating .... the rest of those sound interesting for sure though

They have a huge heat sink... it's clearly visible in all the product shots.

 

[curly604]

cool man ya ive never used one myself so i cant say but this guy was pissed about it just trying to save people anguish and even if it does have a big heat sink ...... no fans!!! not for me no thank you

 

[dickkhead]

how are the plants coming?

 

[WeJuana]

Hey everyone.. good to see the thread with some life in it again!

As fate has it.. during taking the jimmy jangged light setup down and putting up shelving, the corner joint gave away in the Spectra tent, taking out the purple power plant 3 weeks early. Looks like I will have a good amount of concentrate when it's all said and done though.

So... since there was room in all 3 tents, I through the purple power plants in there. I'm considering it round 3, but at harvest of the round 2 plants I will be putting the 900w Blackstar in place of the 500w.

(Spectra)

(Blackstar)

(Penetrator)

(Qrazy Train in tan pots [round 4?])

Trinity Kush (closest 2) & misc strains on right

 

[Psytranceorgy]

nice update Wejuana, thanks!

 

[dickkhead]

looking good! Spectra I think looks the dense's could be the fact it takes a clearer pic then the bs n penetrator, how many actual watts is each light?

 

[WeJuana]

Thanks. All bushes are producing quite well, even though the leaves on the Penetrator aren't the sexiest. I'll try to get better pics up soon.. my good camera has been out on other projects but i will have it back soon enough.

The power draw is:

300w Blackstar
335w Penetrator
360w Spectras

 

[dickkhead]

How many actual 3 watt chips does each light have? the 900 bs only has 864 chips for instance

 

[WeJuana]

How many actual 3 watt chips does each light have? the 900 bs only has 864 chips for instance

You would have to look on the manufacturer websites for that info.. I am not sure of the exact technical specs.

 

[Shwagbag]

It doesn't necessarily mean they're cutting corners. It just depends on how much power they want to give to the leds. More juice per chip can actually lower life while not getting back the equivalent in performance. I believe it's getting better though.

The wavelength efficiency can turn out to be higher than expected when making these lights. I wouldn't be surprised if some manu's make mods after they aim for a certain power consumption, then adjust downward to reduce PAR levels. This is what Mike did with the 180 spectras juicing them down to 140.

 

[WeJuana]

I got the good camera back!

Spectra

Blackstar

Penetrator

Qrazy Train (Test Plant day 44)

Qrazy Train (Round 3)

These will be headed into flower on Friday and will hopefully be harvested at the same time as the Purple Power plants.

 

[dickkhead]

looking good
close call!

 

[PrezDickie]

been a while since i've seen the plants, damn they are looking 100% better this time around. looks like you've got a hightimes layout there my friend. congrats and thanks again for the journal

 

[puffenuff]

Beautiful!

 

[Psytranceorgy]

really, really nice plants AND pictures, thank you for sharing Wejuana! Kudos to you for turning things around and having great success in your LED growing!!!

 

[FMCCNate]

Looking good man

 

[WeJuana]

Thank you all very much! I'm glad this round (2) turned out a bit more like was originally expected.
I really appreciate everyone's interest, especially those who stuck through the slow moving round 1.

**ROUND 3 UPDATES**
Round 3 is going to have a few changes..

The 900w Blackstar is not currently in use in any tent, so I will be trading out the 500w Blackstar which is currently in the flower tent for the 900w, and see what that does for results.

Also, one of the current flower tent will be changed out and replaced with a 600w HPS, making round 3 HPS VS LED (VS LED) to see how these different lighting sources stack up.