I feel like an idiot for making these claims that I can't prove. I'm on probation so I really can't. I see your point that I would have to do a flat scrog or SOG for it to be a fair comparison. But see, you have to handicap me because your light doesn't shine 360 degrees. I guess your right that most growers don't want or need a light that shines 360 degrees though.
I don't want to sound like a dick. I'm really excited about your lights and I hope they do well. I realize that they are pretty new and a lot of the results haven't come in yet. In my opinion, this light has to pull 3.17g/watt to equal a 400. I guess I will just have to see it to believe it. I also do not consider myself to be anywhere near an expert grower. I have grown less than 10 grows always in bubblers.
Getting a lot of grams for your watts is important when your lights are small. That's why I never really messed with flat gardens. There was a dude named fish on OG that documented his 70w horizontal cylinders. I probably never would have thought of it if it wasn't for his thread. I've never seen anyone else do it quite like that.
Please feel free to delete this post if you feel it is cluttering up this thread. Sorry, I tend to ramble sometimes.
Edit: 1g/watt is hard with HID? That is pretty much the norm for scrog, isn't it? Granted, probably not many scrog under a 400. Lots of work.
Sorry man if I'm one of the ones that messed up your thread. I see that your just comparing LEDs to LEDs. I was just posting in this thread cause it's been on top a lot lately. I should have started another thread to ask about how they compare to HIDs. LEDgirl makes some claims that are just kind of hard to believe. I should just learn to be patient and wait for more results to come in.
Just registered here. One of the current grows in the list is mine on another site. The 126w on 420 under Scooby_Snacks. If time permits, I'll be posting the end of the grow on this site as well as finishing it there. Just added a second 126w light to that grow which is in week 5 of flowering. Plants will be finishing up all through Jan.
lookin good man.pic deleted for advertising.
**fixed the picture I posted. (don't post pictures from a private album, duhh)
BTW: Mean Green...If that's your cabinet grow, THAT'S the way to grow with these...In fact, IN MY OPINION, thats probably the only way to get a decent yield...Quite obviously LED's have no where near the light spread and penetrastion of HID's...NICE JOB!!!