Patrick's 81G - the last dance

FinalPhaze987 · Mar 29, 2026

PjFish said:
Any way to find out how many watts the lights are actually drawing at 50% or 100% since companies tend to bend the literature a bit.. Just wondering.. Sweet lighting reminds me of the first gen led horticultural grow lights..

Between the two of them my apex reads 146w at the plug. Both are at the peak of the photo period and running at 51% intensity in the ATI app. Being under driven hopefully equates to running cooler.

Last night, out of curiosity, i cranked them as high as 95% and got a reading of 890 in the front corner of the sandbed.

FinalPhaze987 · 2026-04-19T02:51:14-0700

A couple with the new lights and everything has been going smooth. I changed the spectrum up a bit and reverted to a more 14Kish daylight, as the bluer program started to look like windex.

Intensity is sitting around 65% and I'm slowly ramping up my nutrients. Things started to pale in the first week and I found dosing made them perk up.

With some frags starting to take off, I'm beginning to regret some of the placement. Neighboring frags are growing into each other, some playing nice and some just outright aggressive and killing anything near it. The torts seem to play nice, as does PC rainbow. Validias and stags
, not so much.