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wwhateley
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That's pricey in consumption indeed!
Yes, if you can you should install the heater horizontally because it will distribute the heat better. I wanted to do it too but I didn't have enough room in my tiny 60x60cm tent! My heaters are 30cm long and the tent is 190cm high so I don't lose too much heat from the way they are installed. If it would have been 1m long ones that would have been sort of ridiculous indeed.
Here's what I read on white LED panels :
"Lately, there has been a wave of companies that are using all white LED’s in their design. These lights follow the more familiar color temperate range that we commonly know from HID and T-5 bulbs, 2700K-6500K. Although this makes a light that is closer to what we are all used to seeing as far as color, it negates one of the most important benefits of LED lights, not wasting energy on light the plant can’t readily absorb and use!
Some are touting that they have replicated the spectrum of the sun. That’s great and all, but the big difference between the sun and your grow light is that the sun has an endless supply of nuclear energy, so it’s not that concerned with expelling energy in those lesser used spectral ranges, plus those colors mixed together make the world a beautiful place. Your grow light and pocketbook on the other hand, would rather not waste unusable energy and your plants could care less if they aren’t seeing the world in real color. In fact, they’ll thank you for the purple world they grow in because they know that you’re doing your part to conserve for the planet, while giving them what they need to succeed."
So far I feel that these brands are trying to bring something different than we already know and they got great arguments and everything but I believe that we will have a proof of their effectiveness (perhaps superiority?) in the next years. I mean if you look at LED, it took 4-5 years for growers to see these panels as a great replacement for HID lamps.
I'm a skeptical guy
Seems expensive to have a huge fancy white spectrum panel and buy another one for veg only. Are you sure they can mess up your plants even if they are 120cm away?
Yes, if you can you should install the heater horizontally because it will distribute the heat better. I wanted to do it too but I didn't have enough room in my tiny 60x60cm tent! My heaters are 30cm long and the tent is 190cm high so I don't lose too much heat from the way they are installed. If it would have been 1m long ones that would have been sort of ridiculous indeed.
Here's what I read on white LED panels :
"Lately, there has been a wave of companies that are using all white LED’s in their design. These lights follow the more familiar color temperate range that we commonly know from HID and T-5 bulbs, 2700K-6500K. Although this makes a light that is closer to what we are all used to seeing as far as color, it negates one of the most important benefits of LED lights, not wasting energy on light the plant can’t readily absorb and use!
Some are touting that they have replicated the spectrum of the sun. That’s great and all, but the big difference between the sun and your grow light is that the sun has an endless supply of nuclear energy, so it’s not that concerned with expelling energy in those lesser used spectral ranges, plus those colors mixed together make the world a beautiful place. Your grow light and pocketbook on the other hand, would rather not waste unusable energy and your plants could care less if they aren’t seeing the world in real color. In fact, they’ll thank you for the purple world they grow in because they know that you’re doing your part to conserve for the planet, while giving them what they need to succeed."
So far I feel that these brands are trying to bring something different than we already know and they got great arguments and everything but I believe that we will have a proof of their effectiveness (perhaps superiority?) in the next years. I mean if you look at LED, it took 4-5 years for growers to see these panels as a great replacement for HID lamps.
I'm a skeptical guy
Seems expensive to have a huge fancy white spectrum panel and buy another one for veg only. Are you sure they can mess up your plants even if they are 120cm away?
