I guess it depends what you are looking for. I prefer to have more headroom over my plants and not the LED-strips so close over the canopy. But of course that takes more energy. In my grow room I use the Samsung LM301B wich is a real power horse. I use panels with 308 of these led's each and got 10 of these panels plus a couple of led-strips in my growroom. And you can bloom a Vanda 2,5m below these lights no problem. I have a wall (7m long x 2m high, 3 corners, so not one straight line) with mounted plants and pots at the bottom. edit: and 2 cheap tomato houses 2m long x 1,8m high and one growbox 1,2m long x 1,5m high. The lights shine at an angle from the top, so the decrease in light from top to bottom is not too extreme. Vanda, Rhynchostylis, Papilionanthe, Renanthera etc. all bloomed no problem. I actually had to make the distance between lights and plants larger, because even the Vandas showed red leaves of too much light. You could also dim the driver, but I didn't want the light to decrease at the bottom of the setup. Cattleya are either mounted at the top or in pots at the very bottom and bloom no problem either way. I keep Phalaenopsis, Stanhopea, Paphinia etc. way out of the light in the middle of the room, because otherwise it is too bright for them. These led's have a very high efficiency with over 200lm/watt (I could go into PAR and PPFD, if anyone is interested). At the moment I'm experimenting with adding red (660nm) and far red (730nm) to see if the emerson effect is noticeable.
But I guess such a setup is probably overkill for an apartment.
Last edited by Lupus; 07-29-2020 at 10:49 AM..
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