@MrGreenfinga - Either of those lights would work well. I have several
ViparSpectra lights and can recommend them. I'm not familiar with the Migro, but it sounds good. Bar lights distribute the light well and a remote driver is nice.
One thing that irritates me about the new
ViparSpectra lights is they've done away with the full-range dimmer. I'd rather use a dimmer than raise and lower the light. How does the Migro dimmer work?
so for that price you dont even get a dimmer ? most 150 watt led boards are dimmable. i think they are over priced anyways but if they are not even dimmable then just forget it. I only have a
ts600 as led but looking to swap out my 250 watt hps with an fce 3000 (300 watt led) and keep the same hight but just up the power during flower and maybe boosting the wattage over the optimum at the last weeks of flower like i do now with my evsa.
I think price of those step in models leds went trough the roof the last couple of months. I bought my
TS600 for +- 59 bucks new 3-4 months ago now they are almost double making the difference in price to buy a more expensive bar set up justifiable. most commercial grower i know using led dim down to roughly 80% power as a max setting because it greatly increases the longevity of the leds.
Those slighty more expensive bar set ups also have a better diode setup with regards to adding deep red and a bit of uv and I am not expecting to really be a lot of improvements on the higher scale lights with regard to performance and light frequency optimisation. I think we pretty much figured out what is optimal in terms of frequency with regards to light for cannabis. the data is there the amount is hughe. Maybe they ll be able to create better driver software for marginal light output increases but im thinking im only buying a new set up when LED in gernal is tought of like we now think of like HID.
I used to think plasma light would be the next thing after LED but the light vs heat output of LEDs for home and commercial grower is so nice i dont think we are gonna see allot of development in light systems that create that much heat like plasma do.