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Gavita DE vs. CMH 630w systems: pros and cons of both?
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Growers choice has the goods. Triple 315 de lamps. Just wish these higher lamp ballast dialed down. Veg is the most costly when plant limits prevent sog. Being sucked into expensive wattage in veg with a thin canopy that is not utilizing most photons feels bad. Growers choice offering de cmh that has one lamp is a break thru. If only they offered de cmh with dial.
CMH 630 DE comparison tests
CMH 630 DE comparison tests
Well I posted quite a few times in this thread and I finally am getting time to play on icmag instead of just researching and learning.
I had two fouls grows with a combination of :
Cmh 630 DE
1000 HPS DE
600 HPS
FLUENCE SPYDRx 1200
The 630 and the Fluence took the crown by far.
I was blown away with the yield from the 630's. I ran 4. 3 closed ac/de hoods and one without the glass.
The yield with 4 plants taking up 43"x48" was bomb. The second highest yield I've had with this Blueberry Skunk and a Mind Punch we developed.
Yield was - 34oz and one of the 12oz bob skunks did not have one gram of larf. That's been one of my goals for 5yrs. To develop a plant under certain conditions that had a high yield without larf and top shelf and A grade bud. The other bb skunk was 11 oz and the other 9 oz was from that auto cross mind punch's that we smaller plants. But still that's over 2lbs with one 630.
I don't even always get two lbs with my all my DE 1000's. Depends how many mistakes I make and if I go organic or not.
I will try to post a couple pics of final by and I think one is from flowering and shows the 6"x6" scrog also.
I run perpetual never ending grows so I will try and update as these next ones continue on the new run just flowered 3 weeks ago
CMH 630 DE comparison tests
Well I posted quite a few times in this thread and I finally am getting time to play on icmag instead of just researching and learning.
I had two fouls grows with a combination of :
Cmh 630 DE
1000 HPS DE
600 HPS
FLUENCE SPYDRx 1200
The 630 and the Fluence took the crown by far.
I was blown away with the yield from the 630's. I ran 4. 3 closed ac/de hoods and one without the glass.
The yield with 4 plants taking up 43"x48" was bomb. The second highest yield I've had with this Blueberry Skunk and a Mind Punch we developed.
Yield was - 34oz and one of the 12oz bob skunks did not have one gram of larf. That's been one of my goals for 5yrs. To develop a plant under certain conditions that had a high yield without larf and top shelf and A grade bud. The other bb skunk was 11 oz and the other 9 oz was from that auto cross mind punch's that we smaller plants. But still that's over 2lbs with one 630.
I don't even always get two lbs with my all my DE 1000's. Depends how many mistakes I make and if I go organic or not.
I will try to post a couple pics of final by and I think one is from flowering and shows the 6"x6" scrog also.
I run perpetual never ending grows so I will try and update as these next ones continue on the new run just flowered 3 weeks ago
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What watts at the wall are you getting with this fixture/ballast?
Read these are made after ordering. Could be big bucks for manufacturers to have different sized cmh and de with dial wattage ballasts.
Thats the thing I liked about some LED. The ability to not pay more for veg or a light only to veg before flowering. Dial down has some benifits. Who knows if cmh dials down while maintaining quality spectrum?
Read these are made after ordering. Could be big bucks for manufacturers to have different sized cmh and de with dial wattage ballasts.
Thats the thing I liked about some LED. The ability to not pay more for veg or a light only to veg before flowering. Dial down has some benifits. Who knows if cmh dials down while maintaining quality spectrum?
This company makes nondimmable, dial, and ir remote options. Ir also allows for 0~10v dimmer use. Up to 50 ballasts can be controlled by one dimmer.
Watts to wall is 670 @ 630w setting which means 40w dissipation
Dimming should not impact spectrum at least when driven by their low frequency square wave ballast.
Some growers use 4000/4200k bulb for entire cycle not just veg.
Thanks to all of you sharing your CMH experiences.
Watts to wall is 670 @ 630w setting which means 40w dissipation
Dimming should not impact spectrum at least when driven by their low frequency square wave ballast.
Some growers use 4000/4200k bulb for entire cycle not just veg.
Thanks to all of you sharing your CMH experiences.
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Thats dope! What bulb were u using?
the bulbs? i was at their site a week ago i think and didn't see the fixtures listed any more
Not sure about the de lamps. The fixtures are done now for sure, de cmh fixtures. Don't know why. Would be great if they had those 630 de dial down. Seems running twin 315 in a fixture is more open to one lamp not working than a single de to mess with.
Inquired into whole sale. 250 a fixture when purchasing a pallet of 50 and 500 a fixture of the 630 pallet of 50. Not much better, if any, than growers house. They must buy a lot of pallets of lights.
Inquired into whole sale. 250 a fixture when purchasing a pallet of 50 and 500 a fixture of the 630 pallet of 50. Not much better, if any, than growers house. They must buy a lot of pallets of lights.
For me, being able to run one lamp if the other system should fail is a feature, not a bug. I only run one fixture. I wouldn't have to fix it yesterday, ya know?
I'm sure it changes as a grower scales up.
I figure it's like two headlights...
I'd imagine it's very similar to 600w it replaced,as far as heat it produces, as they are almost equal in wattage.yes I need some pulleys to lower my light..lol
