I am wanting to get rid or my (blurple) lights, and go with white led light if at all possible. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on this scenario. In a spare bedroom this has been going on: I have been using it as partial storage and a flowering room, I want to clean and clear all of that storage stuff out, move existing lighting setup over, then set up the new lighting system along original wall location, and start using new system until the old lights are phased out with old plants. That should not be more than several weeks, that would not cause many problems?
That is what I want to do. Now for the big part, the lighting system, I am not even for certain that it is reasonable to make it 4’ wide or not, I am not sure the footprint that I should be looking at? Right now, I use a spot equal to about 8’x4’ roughly, that is why I first asked about that size led coverage area. Supposidly, I am using (3) three 1000 watt led lights now. I don’t think so…
Check to see what wattage they draw from the wall, not that it will be exact as fans in the light use up some as well.
I pulled my supposed 1000w equivalent light apart to clean all the dust and dead fungus gnats out of it. It said it draws 240w at the wall but it only had 2x50 watt drivers for the LEDs and a 12w one for the fans. So they even lied about that as well.
If you are making bridgelux lights double the wattage for an equivalent in HP’s and you will be in the ball park.
Aim for 30-50w a square foot for the driver size, my bridgelux strips are set to cover at 30w a sq ft in flower and 20w a sq ft in veg and they work very well.
My frames are 22ins x 44ins to get a nice even coverage, but you can make the frame’s smaller to suit your needs, just run smaller wattage drivers for each frame.