Buying a new light. what should i get?

Sure. Watts are irrelevant anyway, but when hps lights were pretty much only viable option watts became referenced unit of measure Because hps lights are pretty much all the same. People that don’t know any better assume more watts is better, so manufacturers put big numbers there hoping to sell more lights. A big trick by cheap led manufacturers is to say they have 200- 10 watt LEDs so it’s a 2000 watt fixture. But 10 watt leds only means that is their maximum power rating. If driver current is less than maximum the final power consumption will be as well.

Even if it did consume 2000 watts, there is no standard for efficiency. One style of light can be less than 1 ppf per watt per second. Another light may be 3 ppf per watt second. Plants only care about amount of light, but how much power is consumed getting to that amount of light.

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By the way I was looking at that 135w Rspec last night at GrowersOutlet? Probably wrong. Anyways they had it in stock since my last post. I went on there this morning to pull the trigger… annnnnd it’s gone. :man_facepalming:.
Hopefully we get another batch here soon cause these things are selling faster then hot cakes.

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I got lucky and ordered 2 rspec boards to replace my 288 v2 boards and just in time it looks. Because they’re out of everything.

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Now hlg site has my lights in stock and growerslights still hasn’t shipped mine or heard anything from them lol going to try and cancel and order straight from the site :man_facepalming:t2:

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They’re probably shipping to growers lights now to fill their orders

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Good point

Yeah that’s the one. They keep going back and forth. In stock outta stock.