Welcome to the world of growing! Where every grow is an improvement over the last! This I know! Good luck!
Personally I would buy hlg over spider farmer based on how most report service from hlg. I would also check internal dimensions of your tent, many are smaller than advertised. You also want to consider that walls suck in some under negative pressure. So even if a true 48" at top of tent, you many not be able to run a 47" light any lower in a 48" space.
Thats the exact issue I was explaining above and why I just bought the controller. I adjust my intensity as opposed to my height due to not being able to move my lights at all. If I could do it over again Iβd just buy 3 lights from HLG to have complete coverage and then id probably be the same price if not cheaper but now that the lights are in there they definitely ainβt coming out unless I get a new tent
I am glad I asked. So much good advice to go over and btw I have made up my mind and told myself I will go with these ones or those onesβ¦ I am almost done converting the old Mars hydro 4x4 spot to the new 4x8 so needless to say I have been busy but made great progress overnight. I was stressing to get lights and the new goodies for the 4x8 but really I donβt need to be messing around in the middle of a grow, reluctantly I am temping some lights, the ones I got in my tent deal until I can move things around. I am switching lights around to better fit the tent they are in. Will have some pictures soon. Thanks for all the help everyone. Anyone in SoCal that needs a random part for their setup, I tend to have a back up for my back up so if I can help someone out in a jam I will do what I can.