Lighting advanced led vs budmaster vs lush led ++

[lightworker30]

Hello. Im a grower with over 12years experience with cannabis indoors and the last couple of years i bought several bad and just ok led lights from china. Now im fed of them and want 3-5 top quality led growlights thats awesome in flower and most important penetrates the canopy the best,if not ill addbthe chinease panels from underneath the plants.so as said id rather have several medium sized than one big and i plan to at least double the amount of recommended lights for 1x1x2m tall homeboxsilverline to be sure i get the most out of the area. So from what i seen airpots are very good and im considering led lights from someone with cree osram ledengin or philips luxeon so here are the lights i wonder what i should choose from.-Advanced led lights xml and xmt series-budmaster led G.O.D. series-lush led dominator 2x or lumenator 2x seriesGrownorthern/dutchpassion/crazyleds&more holographic 1 series-Kind led lightsAnd spectrum king 450 by supergrowled though i doubt kind and supergrowled can compete with the others in cannabis flowering. All and any input and experience are welcome'd with love Ps its for SOG Style 9-16 either 3,5l or 6l airpots with dutch passion blackberrykush autofem, Autowhite widow,auto ultimate and blueautomazar, ive not deceided what to grow together. But i want to do many small airpots to keep them a little smaller tjan the monsters they can get. What would you guys and girls go for?

 

[blue]

I can only talk from experience of using GN M006 LED,

After owning the unit for nearly 2 years i've been really pleased with it. As with all growing, there is a learning curve to LED and my journals definately show the curve.

I would check out people grow journals for the best judgments - We've got lots of Grownorthern and Mars LED users here who would mostly be happy to relay their experiences to you!

I'm due an upgrade soon and am personally undecided which way to go ... but i'm probably leaning towards GN HS1 due to my past good experiences with them.

Hope this 2 cents helps - i'm sure you'll get plenty more from others!

 

[lightworker30]

Thanx i see. And agree that from what ive seen tang and the king and more have accomplished with grownorthern but i have a mars 2 900 thats 180 pcs 5w epistara and its shit imo.
Even a cheap led i got with 80 x 3w epileda are better somehow, plants leaned towards a panel drawing 160-170w with 3w emitters unstead of thise weak shitty "5w" epistar ran at only 2,2 w or something. The little panel is much brighter..
So im never buying mars or anything from them again.
I think i might go for one model of each brand and really give the plants
All spectrums possible but its just tempting. Probably better to go for several units of same type to get even coverage and yields.

I really want to try ex: advanced xml 350 in center
With two advanced xmt 200 on the sides and maybe a xml 150 too but its just a thought. Love the fact u can adjust colourspecs and intensity on those models. Budmaster looks awesome too with 5year warrantyband osram leds but they cost more than every other brand ive aeen.

 

[blue]

Thanx i see. And agree that from what ive seen tang and the king and more have accomplished with grownorthern but i have a mars 2 900 thats 180 pcs 5w epistara and its shit imo.
Even a cheap led i got with 80 x 3w epileda are better somehow, plants leaned towards a panel drawing 160-170w with 3w emitters unstead of thise weak shitty "5w" epistar ran at only 2,2 w or something. The little panel is much brighter..
So im never buying mars or anything from them again.

Hmm that's strange, we've got some members who grow regularly (with lots of them) who swear by them.

Did you get them from an official store and not ebay or amazon - you need to be careful there as there seem to be a lot of fakes about! I'd only ever buy an LED from an official source that's been tested here at AFN. We've got so many growers, it'd be crazy not to check their results and see where they got the kit.

There's some Mars tests grows going on over the next three months.

Son of Hobbes & Rebel (or is it sniper) are doing some grows with a big Mars2 panel and one of the reflector series.
Both great consistent growers so we'll see how they get on!

If you've still got your big mars 2 unit that you think underperforms - maybe check what it's drawing from the wall (watts) and double check with a user that has had the same unit (probably a member called pop22) that the watts are correct. This often highlights the fakes!

Hope this helps

All the best
Blue ^_^

 

[lightworker30]

No the mars is crap imo, its because they use bad epistar 5w diodes at only about 2,2w and %vice thats less output than many 3w leds.
Ill never go back to mars and i bought it straight from manufactur lgledsolutions.

If someone swears by mars units they have not tried good leds imo.
I only got about 40-70g dried of each plants and same clones and envirement gave me more with other cheap chinease.
Thats about 0,6g pr w dried and its bad yield imo.