Would you suggest similar settings and distance for FStrip lights? I’m building two 4 strip lights, each powered by an XLG-240-H-AB, for my 4x4 tent. I’ve been trying to figure out the levels and distance I should start out with.
No, it really depends on how many strips your using and which size to the amount of power your pumping through them . 4 strips would be running hard and need to be a bit further away, 16 strips would be really soft and could be run inches above plants.
Thanks, I appreciate it! I know the design I went off of is using 6 strips in a 4x4 so I was thinking I could run 8 a little softer if necessary.
My strips are rated 22w, I run them at 10 and have them anywhere from 12 inches to 20 inches.
Question the temp and rh, are you reading them at the plant? Or do you have a hygrometer towards the top of the tent.
You should be measuring the temp and humidity at the canopy level.
Ok at canopy level I got my temp to 78 degrees and rh to 55. Should be good from here. Lights on 50% at 24 inches
Little light burn but seem to have fixed my problem
Hey man the light is bright af. When vegging (I have it in a 4.5 x 4.5 tent) I dim it to 350 and keep it at 36inches and still see a tiny bit of stress on new growth but they seem to adjust. Remember some strains can seemingly take as much light as you can give and others fry. Here is a current view of my 600, running 350W and is about 35 inches away. You can see the one in the middle(putang by mass medical strains) showing a little stress but still growing strong
Today I just got a hydro farm par meter! Thank god. I lowered the intensity of my light to 340-350 par range. I’m sure I was well over 1000 ready to burn the fuck out of my plants. There is absolutely no way to know without a par meter. I’m about 32 inches but I got the shit dimmed down enough so it’s not stressful. It’s my 2nd grow. Turning my Ls into lessons.
Thank you bro. I’m diving in on YouTube now.