Dready_jake
Member
Hey bro I took notice to how much you are mentioning heat issues. Which surprised me as you are using a cool tube so I went over the pictures of your set up and was a little shocked to see the way you set the ballast up hanging off the INSIDE of the tent?
there is a reason everyone keeps their ballasts outside the grow room/tent. They give off a lot of heat (some people thinking digi's don't get hot but just because they don't get as hot as magnetics don't mean they are not hot!) It would take two seconds and cost a few bucks to get a longer power cord if that's the only reason you set it up so inefficient?
Are you even running any exhaust other then the cool tube? Where is the hot air from the ballast supposed to go? Hot air has to go somewhere or it obviously will just keep getting warmer.
Sorry if I am being captain obvious and if you already mentioned some type of reason why it is set up like that but I know for a fact moving it outside the tent would lower temps. Maybe not a shit load but I think your gonna be surprised at how much of a difference it makes.
LEDs?!? NOO!! Why?!? I have never in my life heard of someoneswitching from HID to LED and not really, really regretting it. LEDs are for micro growers man and even then I'd rather use fucking CFLs which is pretty sad haha. My buddy was gifted a "180w UFO" and we just ran a little side by side at my buddies as he wanted to switch from T5s to veg to the leds and guess what? Niether of us woud even VEG with LEDs. It's pretty obvious the penetration on them is SHIT. We can see it with out human eyes,,,Everyone that switches from LED to HID or even to flouros if vegging never look back...
Wow this guy doesn't know shit about LEDs. Anecdotal evidence with no real evidence. just shit talking
Check this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ert3fmYQlk
And the results:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z9gdoTO3_kw
Here's one from my 135 watter which is actually only running at 90 watts. There's 8 more of these under 90 watts thats IT.