LED lights with pics

[LEDguru]

Hay check out these supre LED grow lights. They are growing great

[SmknVTEC]

Hey man.
Looks great. Glad you finally made it up on the board buddy. Welcome to Grass City LEDGuru.

[UF-TokeR]

cant wait to see how the plants will turn out. What seeds u using?

[Joint]

Are my eyes tricking me, or do I only see a handful of LEDs per hood? Is that enough? What lumen output and wattage for one of those hoods? Sorry for the questions, I don't know much about LED growing.

[Mister Postman]

To many damn wires for Someone like me (a little ocd and slight perfectionist). I'd get fed up of tripping over them, and pull those suckers down by the cords LMAO.. Yeah small wires all over would drive me nutty, but very interesting growing tech... Any experiance growing under LED before this?

[WeedKrazy420]

do leds work? i never heard of that b4. grow something with um! i wanna see

[DierWolf]

Yes LED works and probably better than MH as well.

One thing i notice though, i see all the red spectrum, there should be 1 Blue LED for every 2 Red.

Maybe they are there just cant tell from the picture.

Glad to see you join GC... Big welcome to you.

[CronicSmoker]

Cant wait to see this..

[Hardsmoker]

I think there should be 1 blue for every 10 red.

Welcome to the city!

[SmknVTEC]

Bump for your new pic Guru

[SmknVTEC]

High All,

Finally I got the LED Grow Lights from my buddy. They are much brighter than I expected. The two lights pictured here, according to my buddy (who has grown peas, beans and herbs under it), are the equivalent of a 400 watt HPS. However, when putting the light meter under the lights it barely registers any lumens therefore; lumen output with LED's is almost irrelevant. The wattage is also different; all the lights are just a few watts.

It comes with a ballast and has just as many wires as an HPS system except the LED ballast is a fraction of the weight and size. It is unfortunately very expensive to buy right now because of the cost of the LED bulbs but with time that should hopefully come down. What you see pictured costs at least $400 and that is my friends cost. Retail of course is a bit more expensive but, the patent on the design is still pending so my friend is not selling them just yet. Despite being at least twice the cost of the comparable HID light systems, this difference is identical after year 4 due to difference in electricity costs per year (about $75 per year for the LED’s and $300 a year for 400 watt HID’s). After year 4 of LED use, the electricity savings will be around $105 per year in favor of the LED’s.

Anyway, I plant to do a side by side grow between my 400 watt HPS and this LED from clones (so it is as accurate comparison as one could get). But that comparo grow won't happen yet because I have major surgery coming up soon and will be out of commission for a while and I don't want to ruin the side by side; otherwise the whole thing will be pointless. I might start a couple of seeds off uder them just to see how it grows. So, stay tuned for that…

[SmknVTEC]

P.S. As you can see there is a switch on one ballast and dimmer switch on the other ballast, to toggle between all blue, all red or red and blue lights together.

[Pfmohr1]

Awesome man, I love seeing people working with LED's, they're definitely the future of growing. I can't wait for the cost to come down some so I can get some for my own grow.

[CronicSmoker]

Seems like it was built to be more complicated then it really is... You said the lights are what make it cost so much money? HOw much them lights cost per bolb?

[KamelRedLight]

Those must be some powerful LED's if you only need 40 of em to equal a 400w HPS. I never heard of a ballast for LED either. Your comparison has my attention.