How To Determine LED Grow Light Distance With Dimmer!
How To Determine LED Grow Light Distance With Dimmer!
In this video I talk about how to determine LED grow light distance when using the dimmer. If you enjoyed this video, please click that thumbs up button 🙂
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This was very helpful. I can just get kilawat Meyer and turn my scorpion Diablo down according to wattage.
I’m growing rosemary plant inside home. Can rosemary revive??
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You think you could do something using lux meter to convert to ppfd.
Its bloom gets me. I hear week 3 to 8 should be high as you have without stress . If your plants are praying at lights off time they need more light. If they cup or taco they need less until before lights out your leaves should be paralell to the floor . Tune that in
Which light is better for rosemary to grow inside home ? Is blue light? Orange light ?
Man, you have an annoying voice….I swear I don’t turn you on at night to fall asleep to. It’s not gentle calm and soothing or anything 🙄. Ok busted, world’s most relaxing voice!!!
I wanna say I love the slim 500 in my 5×5 , you don’t even need a fan it stays really cool on the fixture .
50-60ppfd for clones..anymore will stress them says the dr..400ppfd for veg..the sun is 2000ppfd..anyone got a dimmer for the sun and while you are there use a 1000w mh bulb for veg which is far more than the 400ppfd led..then tell me the led light is better.
No offense but marshydro led bar went out in less than a year. Three out of the four work and my all my optic led lights still work. Have you heard of optic led or tried their lights?
Micro did a great video using a normal lux meter and a bit of math, there was a selection of 4 lux meters with the corresponding math equation, for instance one of the lux meters was a UNI-T UT383 lux meter that whatever it reads there are two equations you use just look at the spectral graph for your light, first one is whatever the unit reads times it by 0.017 and the other spectrum is 0.014
I got this the last time I watched you….and wow it helps hands down…..thank you 😅
I bought a Mars hydro fce 6500 1st led light. I found that at 75% an 28" away was too much for my girls in wk 3 of flower. I dimmed it down to just past the 50% mark. And they loved that. Now I’m in wk 6 of flower I turned it up just past the halfway mark between 50% an 75 %. The soil is happy the leaves are happy an the buds are loving life cuz there getting bigger everyday.
I love my dimmer on my Spider … I use it first half & last half hour of light .
Man, Thankyou so very much. You’ve helped me massively. Thankyou Thankyou
Read the leaves. 10 mins before dark if they pray they didnt get enough light. Increase until 10 mins before the leaves are flat you gave enough and their ready to rest
I don’t have a dimmer on my lights. I have a LM301H. Any advice?
Mister AKA growing I have a question if somebody had a 200 watt light and 150 watt light and they stuck them in the same tent would that be equivalent to a 350 or does it not work that way?
Im a new grower ive only done one grow but it was outdoors but this grow i bought a spider farmer 3×3 tent, sf2000 EVO and a 4in smart ventilation system.
What light level should i put my sf2000 EVO for seedlings. Or if anyone can be kind enough i would appreciate anyone pointing me towards a step by step guide vid or article?
I set my lights to 48 inches so I can work under them and rarely adjust it. I just use a PAR meter and use the dimmer.
What do you think of AGLEX lights?
thanks man,,this is perfect!!
I have mars hydro 3000 lights . Should I Dime them down on veg ?
What is the best Temperature for seeding to vegetation stage
Get a lux meter and keep it at 3300
Excellent information. Thank u ☮️
Even though I tend to skip through data, I appreciate the fine details
Do you have an email that I could send photos with some questions? I’m a novice and just got the Colofrog CF 1500 light. It’s great but idk where to set the dimmer, I’m not using a tent and really want to get an experts opinion.
FCE4800 How far from diff stages??
My light doesnt have a dimmer n i got a 670 watt sun master . Is it possible to put dimmer on it .
This isn’t perfect, but love the channel 😆😆😆
Whats the par of the sun?
for new growers tldr: get a wattmeter + PPFD app on your phone! Works well for me, thanks to Shane from Migro and Mr Growit!
Do I need a humidifier doing vegetation stage
Do you think pepper plants would do well with the PAR ranges you provided?
You don’t have the money for it just Pay good attention to the plant leaves 🍁 it will tell you a lot learned to understand the plant will help you a lot when you water it doesn’t like what you gave it temperature doesn’t like it you got to keep checking it out when your new understand what you’re doing every strain is going to be different it’s about keep learning I don’t care how long you do this you keep learning new stuff every day🤷🏻♂️ i’m just saying
I never got an answer. He spoke mathematics the whole video and I learned nothing
I want to ask something. For mother plans What should the light setting and distance be? Thank you
I have the se 7000 spider farmer i run about 65 percent about 16 inches away at like 900 par i would move my light up but im outta room se 7000 is a banger great episode 👌 😎
Can u leave the lights at the top of the tent and adjust the dimmer as they grow or will that effect the stretching or the hight of the plant ????
According to Mars their dimmer percentages refer to ppfd rather than power input.
don’t the manufacturers do this for you
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Assuming you are using a light that produces more than you will need at the distance required for full coverage of the canopy, I would assume the use of the dimmer is to adjust the wattage output (a.k.a. electric bill) while still supplying the proper amount of light to the size/diameter of the canopy using height/distance to still maintain the light needed.
Basically, if you can achieve the proper amount of light using distance and wattage while maintaining full coverage, you can save your self some cash on you electric bill.
Please pardon me I’m new to this, and I’m trying to learn as much as possible for the following year as recreational use in Ohio will most likely be here at the end of 2023. And I would much rather grow my own than pay whatever for who knows what, plus there is a certain satisfaction to knowing you can do this for your self.
On the spider farmer reading does it matter that that meter was in a Shadow?
doesnt inverse square law imply that at double the height the fall off is actually 1/4th or 25% the light?
do you always measure with par or can you use lux or footcandles ?
Were you aware of this method or not? I hope it helps some of you dial in your light distance while using the dimmer. I know many of you look to make your grow room as efficient as possible; using the dimmer on your grow light is certainly one way to reduce energy consumption. Cheers!
For 3xvsfd4500 in a 4×8 tent, what distance and % would you use for starting veggie seedlings?
for mars hydro fc-8000 – what height should the LED lamp be on veg and on flowering?