Howdy og. It’s great to be back. Love this community. Been lurking and reading. Love you all. So I have a few questions. I’m wondering what everyone is using to cover their grow room walls with and what’s best. Black and white poly? Mylar? Diamond Mylar or just flat white paint? Tell me what ya got lol.
Also I’m old school. I’ve never ran anything besides a hps. But I’m looking into switching over to leds. I’ve got my eye on
I have a 4x4 room. A 4x4 veg room. And a 5x9 flower room. How many of these would you put in each room? I’m thinking 2 side by side for each small room. And 4 in my bloom room. Is this enough?
For simplicity and Cheapness the Flat white is by far superior if you dont have a tent yet.I personally feel the flat white does better at reflecting light in a more even application without any hotspots
So I use 2 XS1500’s in my 2x4. If it were me, I would go with 4 of those in a 4x4 and it should do ok. That will give you 600 watts of light compared to 500w with 2 of those XS2500’s. You can daisy chain them together allowing you to control all 4 from one of the setting knobs.
agreed. I definitely prefer flat white paint. It holds up and is easy to clean/disinfect.
I built my fair share of rooms out of black & white poly (before grow tents were a thing). It’s great for a quick, cheap room but it doesn’t hold up longer term IME.
The poly plastic becomes very brittle over time and starts to easily rip. Maybe it holds up better under LED’s though. I was always using MH and HPS back then (more UV).
Just a light I’m lookin at. I still got a 600 watt hps and a 400 hps. Looking to upgrade but don’t know much about led other than that they claim their cheaper to run ?
One of the most important things I’ve noticed about LEDs is that they run cooler. Especially during the winter months it was hard for me to keep a temperature that the plants liked during the winter. I just bought more lights and cranked them up to 100 to get the room up to 80° haha. There has to be a better way than buying more lights. Maybe just have the 600 blazing away in a corner to keep the room warm.
I had considered running my old hps for heat in winter as well, but ended up using a temp. controlled 1500w space heater… Led is cheaper to run except for winter…
I am running a 600+ and 4 300s on various powers 24 hrs a day. I’m probably pulling less power than a single 1000w hps. I don’t even notice the led blip on my electric bill even at 100% on all lights.
I’m running 3 -600s and 4- 300s and my light bill
Is nothing, in spring when no heat or ac is needed
My bill runs around 55 dollars.
I’m in the country so I don’t get the Nicole and dime shake down the city gets
No storm water, waste water, garbage pick up etc
And I’m on a well so all i.pay for is electric.
, it’s always easy to slap 
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thinking