Mars Hydro TS-2000 giveaway

[Mad Dabber]

Congratulations Tina!

May you and your spouse fall deeper in love with each passing day!

 

[Marshydro]

17: @Mikis
51 @Hypathetical Gardener
67 @HashMaster
78 @SOOTDAWG
113: @Trav*newgrower*

Please send your shipping address to me , by PM or email. email address is 420love@mars-hydro.com

 

[SOOTDAWG]

17: @Mikis
51 @Hypathetical Gardener
67 @HashMaster
78 @SOOTDAWG
113: @Trav*newgrower*

Please send your shipping address to me , by PM or email. email address is 420love@mars-hydro.com

Sent...woof.....And be sure to keep us updated with you and hubby and when the new seedlings come so we can tell you to add Cal mag

 

[HashMaster]

17: @Mikis
51 @Hypathetical Gardener
67 @HashMaster
78 @SOOTDAWG
113: @Trav*newgrower*

Please send your shipping address to me , by PM or email. email address is 420love@mars-hydro.com

Just sent you an email...

Peace
Hash

 

[Hypathetical Gardener]

17: @Mikis
51 @Hypathetical Gardener
67 @HashMaster
78 @SOOTDAWG
113: @Trav*newgrower*

Please send your shipping address to me , by PM or email. email address is 420love@mars-hydro.com

Sent and thanks again!!!

Sent by a weed nerd

 

[Marshydro]

Hey everyone! We released the Mars TS 2000 now! Now if you live in Canada, Austrilia, Russia, you can order directly from our website.
If you are in US, UK, EU countries, you might need to wait and preorder, new stock is around Middle of June. BTW, if you are willing to pay the custom tax and want the light immediately, we are also willing to pay the extra shipping fee for you to ship from China directly. Cheers!
Don't forget to use the coupon code ‘AFN’ to get discount.
https://www.mars-hydro.com/led-grow...d-full-spectrum-hydroponic-led-grow-light-488
https://www.mars-hydro.com/led-grow...d-full-spectrum-hydroponic-led-grow-light-487

 

[The Iconoclast]

@MarshydroTina, I'm about to begin the test grow, how would you like that done, will I begin a separate grow journal perhaps, or just add it into my ongoing shallow water culture thread?

Do you have any information on the LEDs? I know that people are going to ask. The ones on my unit appear to be different to the ones on your website which are round on a square tile, whereas the actual unit I have has square LED's with rounded corners similar to the ChiLed puck .

There's a problem with your website. It will not allow connections from a VPN, this will cost you sales for sure, pass this on to your web master.

 

[The Iconoclast]

Whats the size of the rectangular one? Diodes used? Driver? Specs?

The diodes are not what is shown on the website, that much I can say, they appear to be very similar to the ones used on the ChiLed puck. The drivers plug into the board with a plug so with the long version one side can be completely switched off which is handy because I can already say that the output does not disappoint.

The driver is a Meanwell style driver, except that it is obviously not as well made but then this light seems to be pulling out all the stops to deliver quality light at a good price. The drivers are rated at... 27-54V 0.1A - 5A and 150W, at first I thought the LED were 54W but that couldn't be right because they were drawing 4A. Eventually I decided to strip the wire down to check and they are 36V LED's just like the ChiLed puck, not sure what the ChilLed puck runs I thought it was 36V but I'm using their recommended 48V driver at 100W.

At any rate the ChilLed puck on full power draws 108W At the wall and I think it's putting out about 90W of light maybe a bit more. I turned one side off and adjusted the other side of the MarsHydroTS200 long version, so that it was drawing the same 108W at the wall as the ChilLed puck on full power then I did an impromptu light test. I locked the white balance and exposure and shot the floor under the light at 48" from the floor, then I held the ChiLed puck at the same spot drawing the same power, and it appears to be about the same for all practical purposes, bearing in mind the reflector and layout differences which is why I did it at 48". The TS2000 is a bit more green/yellow than the puck which does have some added blue. The QB's are a bit warmer. My opinion is that the spectrum on the TS2000 looks like a good balance for an entire grow. Here's the result of that, remember the colour balance can only be seen in relative terms not absolute. This is not a scientic test but it's good enough to see that this light easily matches other popular white lights for output. IW I'm pretty impressed with the coverage that the reflector gives.
ChilLED at 108W
TS2000 at 108W (one side)


At 108W at the wall
full power (one side) 158W at the wall

 

[bakEQuatorial]

The diodes are not what is shown on the website, that much I can say, they appear to be very similar to the ones used on the ChiLed puck. The drivers plug into the board with a plug so with the long version one side can be completely switched off which is handy because I can already say that the output does not disappoint.

The driver is a Meanwell style driver, except that it is obviously not as well made but then this light seems to be pulling out all the stops to deliver quality light at a good price and . The drivers are rated at... 27-54V 0.1A - 5A and 150W, View attachment 1062723 at first I thought the LED were 54W but that couldn't be right because they were drawing 4A. Eventually I decided to strip the wire down to check and they are 36V LED's just like the ChiLed puck, not sure what the ChilLed puck runs I thought it was 36V but I'm using their recommended 48V driver at 100W.

At any rate the ChilLed puck on full power draws 108W At the wall and I think it's putting out about 90W of light maybe a bit more. I turned on side off and adjusted the other side of the MarsHydroTS200 long version, so that it was drawing the same 108W at the wall as the ChilLed puck on full power then I did an impromptu light test. I locked the white balance and exposure and shot the floor under the light at 48" from the floor, then I held the ChiLed puck at the same spot drawing the same power, and it appears to be about the same for all practical purposes, bearing in mind the reflector and layout differences which is why I did it at 48". The TS2000 is a bit more green/yellow than the puck which does have some added blue. The QB's are a bit warmer. My opinion is that the spectrum on the TS2000 looks like a good balance for an entire grow. Here's the result of that, remember the colour balance can only be seen in relative terms not absolute. This is not a scientic test but it's good enough to see that this light easily matches other popular white lights for output. IW I'm pretty impressed with the coverage that the reflector gives.
ChilLED at 108W View attachment 1062735
TS2000 at 108W (one side) View attachment 1062736


At 108W at the wall View attachment 1062729
full power (one side) 158W at the wall View attachment 1062730

Nice intro and congrats on the win! Still does not tell us much though. Perhaps vendor can step in to enlighten us? My 2 cents after seeing the pics is that the diodes are 3030 type and my guess is that they are Epistars cos Mars seems to predominantly use epistars.

 

[The Iconoclast]

Nice intro and congrats on the win! Still does not tell us much though. Perhaps vendor can step in to enlighten us? My 2 cents after seeing the pics is that the diodes are 3030 type and my guess is that they are Epistars cos Mars seems to predominantly use epistars.

I forgot to say in my previous post that the watts at the wall is about 15% more than the watts at the board, which is the same as the Meanwell drivers. As for the output, I feel pretty confident to say it's the equivalent lux to the ChilLed puck which does use Samsung diodes. With white light the brightness as seen is good enough.

In a nutshell, the quality of he components may be a bit less than QB's with Meanwells, but you'd expect that, they've cut the price in half compared to what I'd normally have to pay in Australia. The efficiency is the same and a photon is a photon, the plant doesn't care. Anyway, I'll be starting a grow with this tomorrow by the look of it as my Think Big looks like it will be up tomorrow. So I'll be taking this all the way through under this light.