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hey krister and SME<

i don't want to hijack this thread but i was looking at getting a solis-tek HID ballast and happened to see this under their "products" header.

not sure what the difference is b/t these and other LED's. http://solis-tek.com/products/hiled.html

i'd be interested in what you think of them and what/how are they different?

thanks, RKY

Yeah, I split it off..

I can't say I'm impressed by the LED that they're planning but we still don't have all of the information about it.

It uses large arrays, which is a negative for me.
It's air-cooled (like a HID) which is good. I had that idea years ago, in this forum.
The large one is 990w actual draw and that's a plus since that really *will* cover a 4x4 area but they'll probably claim it'll cover something ridiculously large.

i'm confused by what they mean by 50 or 100 watt sun chips. it looks like the 500 watt model only has 5 LED's? so each one is 100 ?

how do they do that? are there 20 5W to make up the 100?

i guess they aren't on the market yet. wonder what prices they are going to sell for?

they make a really top shelf HID ballast. i like the built in timer too and the remote in the matrix model

Those are LED arrays; several diodes packaged together. Arrays have had a history of heat failures and as you can see, they concentrate the light in smaller areas and then they, apparently, use a lens to spread it. That's NOT how I would build one but they had to come up with something to get their share of the LED market.

I assume so. 10 for the 50s 20 for the 100s. The size is huge too...

Unknown but I bet it won't be cheap.

I love their Matrix ballasts but I doubt I'd buy their LED.

ok, gotcha. now i see what you mean by an array. it would seem like there would be a lot of heat from each array vs. spreading them out across the whole fixture.

i think i'll just stick with the matrix for now. i've got enough invested in LED's at the moment.

what's nice is that MJ is a pretty high rate of return on investment. my last grow paid for the LED if i would have had to buy all that i grew from a dispensary.

Yeah, that's why 90-95% of indoor grows are cannabis, excluding house plants that don't get their own lighting of course.