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Starting indoor vertical farm, need advice
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2017-05-01 at 12:14 PM UTC
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2017-05-01 at 1:13 PM UTCWhat do you want to grow commercially anyways? If you are looking at lights on alibaba that makes me think you are trying to get them as cheaply as possible. You want to get the best light system for your needs not just anything cheap, you will save money at the cost of not getting what you need. LEDs are also not really used commercially. You want 1000+ HPS or MH with a good ballast with warranty on everything.
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2017-05-01 at 1:29 PM UTC
Originally posted by SCronaldo_J_Trump What do you want to grow commercially anyways? If you are looking at lights on alibaba that makes me think you are trying to get them as cheaply as possible. You want to get the best light system for your needs not just anything cheap, you will save money at the cost of not getting what you need. LEDs are also not really used commercially. You want 1000+ HPS or MH with a good ballast with warranty on everything.
Please stop giving false advice. LED lights are absolutely used in commercial settings. They beat gas based lamps in almost every way. I've heard of growers who use full spectrum LEDs coupled with traditional lamps and their results are stellar.
NASA does it too....
https://www.heliospectra.com/blog/nasa-uses-led-grow-lights-marijuana-growers-should-too -
2017-05-01 at 1:33 PM UTChm space height do u wont for each layer
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2017-05-01 at 1:35 PM UTCu get 20w multi spectrum lEDS in from alibaba cheap an u are laffin
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2017-05-01 at 1:35 PM UTCu can get from ebay but they are resellers
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2017-05-01 at 1:39 PM UTC
Meanwhile, LEDs can deliver the same amount of light for 40 percent less electricity, without the wasted light. That's not only more energy efficient, but less expensive overall. Good quality LEDs could cost around $1500 per light, and a 1000 square foot canopy, either in an indoor grow operation or a greenhouse, would need about 62 lights. However, the lights themselves can last over 10 years if a grower uses around 50,000 hours of light, or an average of 12 hours a day, Yorio said.
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2017-05-01 at 1:46 PM UTCIve been in the commercial garden industry most of my life and I have asked dozens of people that make their living off this and they all say LEDs are not worth it or they would be using them already.
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2017-05-01 at 1:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by SCronaldo_J_Trump Ive been in the commercial garden industry most of my life and I have asked dozens of people that make their living off this and they all say LEDs are not worth it or they would be using them already.
RisiR here, dumbfuck. Don't even talk to me.
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Platinum-P900-12-band-Grow/dp/B00NTC79D2
This is a good LED light. The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't have 120° LEDs at the site but yea it still shits over every HPS or MH on this planet and in space. -
2017-05-01 at 1:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by Horatio Abernathy RisiR here, dumbfuck. Don't even talk to me.
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Platinum-P900-12-band-Grow/dp/B00NTC79D2
This is a good LED light. The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't have 120° LEDs at the site but yea it still shits over every HPS or MH on this planet and in space.
Why'd you nuke your old account -
2017-05-01 at 1:52 PM UTC
The P900 has 12 bands of light wavelengths including infrared and ultraviolet, the parts you can’t see with the naked eye. This panel, and others like it in the Advanced Platinum lineup, is about as close to sunlight as you can get indoors. But this isn’t a one-trick pony. This panel is good for every stage of growing cannabis.
You can keep it low-key for sprouting by hitting the “Veg” switch, or kick up the intensity by flipping the switch for “Bloom.” The 90-degree angle of the LED focusing lenses sends the light down into the canopy of your plants. This encourages massive growth.
It can replace a 1000-watt HPS light at full intensity and still only use 515 watts of electricity. The average price of electricity in the US is around 12 cents per kilowatt-hour. Running a 1000-watt HPS costs you 12 cents every hour, plus what you’ll pay to cool it. But running the P900 gives the same or better light quality and intensity at half that price.
When the P900 is suspended at 18-inches above the plants, its core coverage reaches up to 3 by 5 feet. Its maximum coverage is 4 by 6 feet. You may be asking what those numbers really mean for you. At different stages of growth, you’ll be raising or lowering the light according to what your plants need. For sprouting, you can cover up to 4 by 6 feet. But at more intensive stages like flowering, you’ll cover less area because you need more intense light. An adult cannabis takes up at least 1 square foot of space in a 3-gallon pot, so the P900 can flower between 12 to a maximum of 24 at a time.
This definitely isn’t a budget light system. But we like that the P1200 LED drivers work anywhere in the world. They accept 110V or 220V input (or specifically, 85V to 260V. PlatinumLED offers one of the better warranties on the market, with a 90-day money-back guarantee and 5-year complete warranty.
It's a sales text but it is accurate. -
2017-05-01 at 1:55 PM UTC
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2017-05-01 at 2:03 PM UTCYou're a weird dude you know thatThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-01 at 2:16 PM UTC
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2017-05-01 at 3:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by SCronaldo_J_Trump What do you want to grow commercially anyways? If you are looking at lights on alibaba that makes me think you are trying to get them as cheaply as possible. You want to get the best light system for your needs not just anything cheap, you will save money at the cost of not getting what you need. LEDs are also not really used commercially. You want 1000+ HPS or MH with a good ballast with warranty on everything.
I found some old ones from Phillips and GE I will probably use for the actual farm, but first I want to start one in a spare room so I thought the AliBaba ones would work. Are Chinese LEDs much worse? I was going to buy good ones as a matter of principle but I didn't know there was a big difference in LED technologies.
But googling around a bit it looks like there really is, and specially in cooling. Hmm. I'm taking this slow too, I want to do my research before I start. -
2017-05-01 at 3:44 PM UTCAlso Horatio thanks for the I fo, will check it all out. As I said, I'm going slow.
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2017-05-01 at 4:13 PM UTCidoit
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2017-05-01 at 4:20 PM UTC
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2017-05-01 at 6:03 PM UTC
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2017-05-01 at 6:50 PM UTC
Originally posted by cerakote you helped contribute to the rattex shitposting
No. I completely ended it. It's not my fault Scrawny went mad on me. He stopped the shit because I collected his PI and he got scared (and ran out off Meth). I don't blame him, though. I was once convinced that he is a cop when I was on Meth, averaging 12.000 posts per day. He freaked me the fuck out. LOL.
Happy Zaint Zattex day to you, sir. Now....stop posting.
