fredcdobbs
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with a 1000 watt hps it's supposed to cover 8ft x 8ft..anybody have experience with this?..will it do what it's supposed to?
are you familiar with the reflector i'm speakin of?..this thing is a disk and it's either 42 or 49 inches across..at the store they actually said it'd cover 8x9 ft area..even if it covers only 6x6 it'd be a lot better than my present 4x4..$1808x8 is pushing it for any reflector and a 1000. i dont go over 5x5.
was actually lookin for someone who has experience with this reflector but thanks anyway..it's not a magic hood though man, it can't make light come from nowhere, the reason people go with 4X4 as a standard for a 1000 watt is because it's about 62.5 watts per sq. foot...which is right in the recommended window of 50 to 75 watts per square foot.
an 8x8 area is 4 times bigger than a 4x4 foot print and you end up with 15.625 watts per square foot, anybody will tell you that is no where near enough to grow a decent harvest...NO MATTER WHAT KINDA SHINY THING YOU WRAP AROUND IT! lol
was actually lookin for someone who has experience with this reflector but thanks anyway..
` greenlife,thanks for sharing yer experience..at 6x6 it'd pay for itself the 1st crop..I have run one of those in the past(can't where I am now..I need air cooled) an used a 6x6 space to fit it in..and it worked great. The rest of the guys are right in that you want more watts per sqft, but i was pulling 18 ozs no prob out of that area. That reflector is nice in that it spreads the light better than the little air cooled hoods like the yeild master 2's.
so how many crops have you grown with this reflector?..thats what i thought.,ZEROOO.zilch,none nada..you can argue with yerself til yer blue in the face but it doesnt change anything.now git!!!lol the kid has no respect for anybody's opinions unless they say they have tried the hood he wants...you probably wont get your answer though...
it's called MATH man, maybe the reason nobody has tried it and can tell you it's bs is that THEY DID THE MATH FIRST! green life says he has tried it, though no offence to green life, but with a 1000 watt it's possible to get like 36 ounces in a 4X4 space, so tellin' the kid it works as advertised when your only pulling about half a gram per watt in a space that is more than FOUR TIMES the size needed to grow 18 ounces... with more than twice the watts many people need to get that kind of yield. if people can grow 1000 grams in a 4x4 area with a regular air cooled hood(lower temps than a parabolic hood, by a LOT) why would you ever want to grow less in a larger area? do you like fluffy popcorn buds? cause if you stray to far below the 50 watts per square foot your bud density will drop off quickly...
THE HOOD CHANGES NOTHING! PHYSICS IS PHYSICS! the fact of the matter is the bulb will only put out so much bud, and you can put any reflector in the world on it and it's not going to change that. sure some are better than others but not by a whole lot, definitely not enough to magically make a bulb cover 4 times the space...do you have any idea how many enormous warehouse grows there are out there? if you have 100 thousand watts of light running you are obviously going to do it in the most efficient way possible, fact is they use the industry standard of 4x4 feet because it works the best by far! most use air cooled hoods daisy chained in big rows, that i have seen at least, parabolic reflectors are too hot for many large scale warehouse grows. spreading more plants over a bigger footprint under the same bulb just means less buds per plant, and stemmy stringy buds at that. you will NOT gain yield!
so how many crops have you grown with this reflector?..thats what i thought.,ZEROOO.zilch,none nada..you can argue with yerself til yer blue in the face but it doesnt change anything.now git!!!
how refreshing.phaeton you are a thinker and now you've got me to thinkin..thanks for sharing yer open minded thoughts and experience..I was in the outhouse with my belt off when my black lab got himself chased by a moose mother with her calf. Ran right up to me he did, I leaned forward to see what the ruckus was and face to faced the moose. Probably a good thing I couldn't run in that condition, played stoneface for about two whole minutes, 5 or 6 years in limbo time.
But back to the magic light topic. I'm using CMH in a small budroom and 400w just wasn't enough and 2 x 400w with reflectors would not fit. I took a horizontal plane laser, marked and cut 2 reflectors to fit 18" spacing. The reflectors siamesed together perfectly, doubling the light density evenly across the canopy.
Could not this wonder reflector be split and a leaf like in an expanding dinner table be added, maintaining the even light pattern but with twice as much?
How about tripling with a light spreader in the center?
Way too many cute put downs when this is a tool that could make a bright budroom easier.
It takes 7 x 400w to get smooth even light on my 7 foot canopy, if this reflector could be modified to work with 3 x 1000w and do an 8 foot circle, well, I would be looking to give new builders different advice than I do now.
My budroom does excellent, but seven lights, seven timers, seven fans, seven reflectors. Simple would be oh so much better. :kitty: