LED Help

New to LED's. Looking for best bang for the buck...
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Below is what I have been looking at. Any other lights I should be looking at?

HLG-135 DYI Kit
HLG-225
CXB-3590
GrowCraft x3 Mini DYI Kit
MiGrow Aray 2
Spider Farmer 1000

Suggestions, advice please.

PanamaRed63 said:

New to LED's. Looking for best bang for the buck...
2x3 area
Below is what I have been looking at. Any other lights I should be looking at?

HLG-135 DYI Kit
HLG-225
CXB-3590
GrowCraft x3 Mini DYI Kit
MiGrow Aray 2
Spider Farmer 1000

Suggestions, advice please.

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That ChilLed looks pretty sweet. This must be new.
If you decide to go that route going through this link should get you another 5% off I think.


But HLG is awesome too. You could get 1 HLG 135 now, and add another later.
For HLG use code "RIU10" for 10% off.

And then there's always the do it yourself route if you have any interest in building your own.

Thanks for the codes. I am willing to build my own only if comes in a kit.

PanamaRed63 said:

Thanks for the codes. I am willing to build my own only if comes in a kit.

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Cobkits.com

Building it custom doesn't mean its not a kit. The parts are easy to source. Simple tools like a drill, drill bit, hacksaw, screwdriver, and wire cutters.

PanamaRed63 said:

Thanks for the codes. I am willing to build my own only if comes in a kit.

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I have all HLG now, but I'd probably rather have the Grow Craft in there. The HLG 135's aren't as easy to dim as the Grow Craft. The 135's have the dimmer on the driver, instead of on a potentiometer. But it's not hard to dim the 135's at all either.

2 135's might have a better spread though. I'm not sure.

There's a ton of options.

Best bang for your buck is gonna be DIY or Alibaba LEDs. I've had good luck with mine but have also seen some horror stories. I was willing to take the gamble and it paid off. The jury is still out as far as how long they'll last but with the speed at which grow light tech is moving right now, I won't be mad if they don't last very long. I paid about 1/4th of the price I would have paid for a very similar name brand light.

Hlg 320 r spec would be boss in there lol

sf_frankie said:

Best bang for your buck is gonna be DIY or Alibaba LEDs. I've had good luck with mine but have also seen some horror stories. I was willing to take the gamble and it paid off. The jury is still out as far as how long they'll last but with the speed at which grow light tech is moving right now, I won't be mad if they don't last very long. I paid about 1/4th of the price I would have paid for a very similar name brand light.

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I second this. Mad cheap prices for good lights.. My first run I pulled about a pound + half a pound larf with 3x 240w alibaba lights.

Might be a bit more money but I’ll toss in a vote for this BudgetLED 250w Full Spec Infinity Board Light Bought the 500w version and has been amazing so far. I’m coming from a 3 year old HLG 500w QB and this new light has my plants looking 7-10days further along then my past grows under the old QB. Plus it has UV on/off switch and a switch for the 2 boards to change between blue and/or far/deep red additional lighting. I’m have 2 boards blue and 2 in red right now in my 6th week of veg. Use 420mag to save 5% off purchase (bottom left plant is just starting week 4 from seed)

It took me since 2017 to build my leds up. First started with 6 cobs. Now its 10 cobs.

One of my two plants decided to show its phenotype. It kept stretching two weeks after the other stopped. Grew a complete foot taller then other.

And...that's ok. Because the tall plant grew up into 70,000lux. The other gets an average of 47,000lux.

My driver voltage range is between 48 to 54 volts. Currently at 52.5volts and its spitting out 70k lux, 15" from the top cola. If I were to turn the system up to max. I'd cook the plants.

PadawanWarrior said:

There's a ton of options.

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And that's the problem. lol

What do you think is better I have hlg 65 and two hlg 100v2. I just ordered the hlg 13t give it a run Damm now I see hlg225 for like 30 more bucks more should I cancel and get the hlg 225 ?

Badjem said:

What do you think is better I have hlg 65 and two hlg 100v2. I just ordered the hlg 13t give it a run Damm now I see hlg225 for like 30 more bucks more should I cancel and get the hlg 225 ?

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I can't compare to the others but I'm running 3x HLG 225's I like them quite a bit. I think they may get a little hotter than some of the others as the diodes are concentrated on the small panel and they're being overclocked at 225w.