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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    Well, for thread closure, my above crop on this new Mars Light setup pulled in 19oz White Widow. On my 600HPS best I ever pulled was 15 oz ish. Last one, above, was 19 oz. Today, final crop for a while (packing it in for the forseable), I pulled... 24oz - N13 Kush! Christ the light paid for...
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    All dried and in jars now. Rough pics from my cam/daily pics.
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    Thanks for the tip - worked out far beyond my expectations ! :-)
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    Yeah - that was lighting 4x6 space, with two plants out of the race as they were stunted due to a failed older mars LED. Going to be very interesting to see how it goes with all 6 plants in full godo health :-) The Mars was of course pricey, but I wanted instant guaranteed results, I asked for...
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    Well well! I've just weighed up. Typical yields for me are anywhere from 11.5 to 15oz. I juist pulled 20.7oz dry bud :-) Lamp paid for itself on the 1st use!
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    Mars SP3000 Driver too hot to touch !!!

    I've switched from blurples to the FC-E6500 and the driver is outside the tent. It's very hot to touch, but I'm not concerned. It has a 5 year warranty.... The results, are staggering. I'm still in disbelief. I've yet to weigh up. Just finished harvesting today, but I had at least 12 buds the...
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    Little update. Harvesting. Day 2 so far. (I do a few hours each evening). Holy fucking shit! I've grown big buds, but not like this! And, they matured in 7 weeks from flip. Same seeds, 10 weeks under HPS. I noticed this before even under blurples. Won't know the final weight for a godo two...
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    My plants are very happy indeed. What I love most about the thing is the wide spread. It's covering 4x6 very easily. with active growth right to the edges.
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    I did it :-) INstalled and up and running , currently at 450w for veg
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    I just did it. Fuck it! :-)
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    I'd love to but it would seriously impede into the room the tent is in. I'll live with it with a chiller for now. What you say makes perfect sense of course. Now just hovering over teh buy button on the Mars FC-E6500 at £595........
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    I've got a chiller which sits outside the tent and has to do very littel work to keep it at 20c. It's a RWDC kit and I cna't be arsed to extend the pipes, and , lose space in the rest of the room! :-)
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    Oh I don't use all of teh 4x8. I use it more like a 4x4, and sometimes a 4x6. I use an RWDC system that 4 pots fills the 4x4 perfectly and there are 2 more pots that sit just inside the other half of the tent, with the res, further in again. Means I have good space in the "mostly unused" 4x4...
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    Budget - I'm easy (don't mind spending within reason) Environment - 4x8 indoors, UK temps. RDWC Have to say, I've looked at the Mars FC-E6500 and it's ticking the boxes well. PJ - sorry your attention span can't last a short, well paragraphed, detailed question. The details are important. My...
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    Replacing 600w HPS with LED

    Could do with a pointer to the tech I should be looking at, Things keep changing with LEDs, COBs etc. Currently I use a 400w MH to veg in a 4x4, and a 600w hps, OR, 2 x 275w (at the wall) Mars Hydro Blurples (the long ones, 1 x 3 "grid" of LEDs - old school). School's out on the flowering HPS...
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    Thinking of going from NFT to DWC or RDWC - thoughts?

    Little upate - just cropped. RDWC was no more hassle than NFT. I checked twice for root clogging (of pipes) and pulled back one rootball (out of 4) once. Got a clay pebble pipe jam in week one but learnt from that. Never happened again. Top ups and Ph & EC were very easy. Nice gentle...
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    Net pots and root restriction?

    Thanks peeps. With cloning that makes perfect sense but I tend to grow from seeds often just for the fun of variety. All is going very well.
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    Net pots and root restriction?

    I've got a bubble cloner than uses small net pots, 2". WHen transferred to my RDWC system that uses 5" netpots. On this (1st) occasion I snipped the small netpots around the base to allow the roots to be unrestricted, and then put them in the 5" pots for the RDWC system. As the "seedlings" had...
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    Thinking of going from NFT to DWC or RDWC - thoughts?

    Enough room - not really. Rails? I assume you mean NFT rails. I used NFT tanks before.
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