One question I’m new but if this light is so bad why does it have such good feed back. And what make a good light. I can still send these back and upgrade I just want to know what I should be looking for
Red flags- It doesn’t have Bin listed of type of led. It’s has brochures about how awesome it is. It’s certified awesome in 2008!!! It’s old tech. I fell for it too. I bought some bullshit. If you want led go to rapidled, hlg or timberlighting .
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So basically its a power supply wired up to light strips. Ok I see but what strip combo do you need to grow with and do I keep the 50 v per sqft rule. Also do you have a schematic for a build that was done already.
35~ persquare foot. And im mid process now. Have a shopping list at the bottom of my grow if u want me to tag u over. Basically building two seperate 12x12 boards. Will be doing two seperate 2x2 hopefully sized plants. May squeeze for a third but have to see how my light footprint will spread. 2x2 is a fairly niced sized plant for 1 indoor (if done correctly)
Better yet bring the list here 
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Building 2 100w~ 12x12 boards. Should be good give r take some ironing out spacing. (And finishing ordering the ACTUAL parts) .
Sorry. Went back to the top. No way in hell 2 boards of that size can cover 4x4. Got off topic. Have u decided?
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Parts and wiring will vary a little based on space and such. With this style of lighting even getting to 30 watts per square foot is really good.
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They would do pretty darn good. I would get like 3000k or 3500k over the 4000k though.
I’m curious why. Would 4000k be too much for 4x4.
4000k isnt an amount. Its a light color. The 3000-3500k has more red so its better for flowering then a 4000k would be. But they also veg just fine
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It’s the ppf level that’s low for a 4x4, like 5-6 of them would be ideal.
But like @PurpNGold74 said, color temp has only a very little to nothing to do with that.
So as tempting and fun as it seem to put your light together. I just sitting here think I don’t want to and probably wont have the time and if my wife see me fixing anything other than what on my list of shit to do in the house it will be a problem. So is there any where I can buy these lights put together already. I have 4x4 space would like to get something for that. I’m really after efficiency over price. Ont want to kill my light bill. Thx you guy are really helpful wish I seen this before I jumped and bought lights.
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Ya. Horticulture lighting group, timber grow lights, pacific light concepts, fluence bioengineering, and chilled tech all have really good stuff.
N usually $25 bucks for assembly right @dbrn32?
Rapidled don’t forget them
If you order a qb kit from growers lights they will indeed assemble for small fee. The hlg-550, and hlg-300 are completed lights regardless of where they come from.
Timber has kits and completed lights. Anything listed as framework should be completed ready to hang.
Fluence and plc only sell complete lights to the best of my knowledge, and rapid led sells kits as well I think.
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So I have been doin research on theses lights. And now I’m torn, I see the hlg 600 kit and the 550…the 600 seems like the same as the 550 just more power but it cheaper. Both use the same diodes. So I’m torn because I don’t know if I should add some QB’s to my setup I have now or just go all QB’s. Any thoughts?
My 2 cents. ALL QB if possible. Definitely can supplement until u have enough to run em all. N i believe the diff in the 550 n 600 is layout/footprint. Not sure tho. Call the light doctor @dbrn32 @Aolelon
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The chilled led look nice too. Too many choices ima libra I can’t make up my mind
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the 550 and 600 have the same footprint. The difference is the HLG 600 is Growerslights custom package they sell but it needs assembly. They can definitely assemble it for you for a fee though. So with the HLG 600 you are looking at more watts. It has a smaller Heatsink and the spread is slightly less than the 550. But they are both good lights. I would obviously go with the 600 over the 550 being cheaper.
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