The surface temperature of the heatsinks on my LED lights barely reach 100° when they are running at 100% power. They definitely don’t add much heat. I think my tents usually run 10°-15° above the room temp when the lights have been running for awhile.
I have a wire-rack shelf unit with six LED t-5's, two per shelf, that can be hooked up in series - one plug and timer with 6 (or more) lights. I grew lettuce all last winter and am getting ready to start again. Just good soil and water, then leftovers from watering the indoor garden. Getting ready to fire it up again.
The heatsinks aren't that hot but it's continuous. After removing mine from the tent and remotely wiring them from outside the tent I saw a 5 degree difference.
I have my drivers outside of the tent, too. I was talking about the heatsinks that my LED strips mount to.
(900 vs 800 sq ft) It has 10-14 ft ceilings as well. A much harder space to heat, for sure. LOL...I really never built it thinking I'd grow in there. Woulda been a kick ass space back in the day...
The sand batteries can be made to run off of solar.Thanks for the info guys. We'll see how it goes. My original plan was to use the LED's....and do my light cycles during/throughout the day...burning the stove all night. We have a peak usage rate I gotta avoid from 4pm-10pm or rates are crazy high to run such things. The HID's are more amps/more $$$ to run...but they will heat the entire garage for the $$$ outlay. Gonna run a dehuey as well cus I hate all that moisture in my garage. I'll probably drain it right back in the water barrel. I still have time to decide which way to go on lights though.
Of course...because we are rural...the garage, by mandatory requirements... is bigger than the house.
You knew what I meant LOL
You have carrots growing inside? Cool. Haven't seen that one yet. What kind are they?
That is a good question. I'm growing fingerling carrots from burbee. They are supposed to grow 3 1/2" and they hit the bottom of my 4" trays so I'm growing them in deeper trays. While the yield is small the flavor makes it impossible for me to stop growing them. I started a bunch of lettuce and carrots recently. The only veggies I have a full time supply of are radishes and string onions, both are easy to grow. I have some tomato plants not shown in the other pic. Roma, cherry, and 4th of July. The 4th of July are small but heat tolerant tomatoes from burpee and make a frozen Digiorno pizza taste like a genuine Tomato Pie that was made with Jersey tomatoes. I had to stop growing cucumber and peppers inside. I found out I am allergic to the pollen, luckily, I do not have that problem with tomato pollen. I have had an allergic reaction to cannabis pollen lol.
Nice MBS - PAR meter what controller do you have it hooked up to?
TrolMaster
I know but what trolmaster controller?
D'oh. My bad. HCS-1
same here but I joined the party late lol
