Sunpulse Splitter, anyone use?

[siddhartha]

Split every 1000w HPS C/C light into two 600 watt Sunpulse lights
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www.sunpulselamps.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&Itemid=16



Has anyone used one of these yet? If so did you have a chance to measure your 1000k with a light meter, and measure the two 600. Does it add up? i am suspecting there would be some loss in lumens.

 

[mrpotatohead]

I've been looking at these too. You have to use their bulbs too... I really don't see how it could work but if it does and someone could explain how, I'd buy one.

 

[krunchbubble]

i fully regret purchasing sunpulse bulbs.....

 

[Cheeb]

1000 ≠ 1200

sounds like a hoax

 

[Incognegro]

It's not hard to increase V to anything, I'd like to see how they turn 1000W into 1200W...

If they're using 1 1000 ballast, then I assume they've got some kinda converter assembly at the lamps? Interesting.... I'd like to see this...hell even a pic, and see how they explain this happens......

I'd enjoy using a single 1000 HPS split into 2 500's..lol

 

[Cheeb]

It's not hard to increase V to anything, I'd like to see how they turn 1000W into 1200W...

If they're using 1 1000 ballast, then I assume they've got some kinda converter assembly at the lamps? Interesting.... I'd like to see this...hell even a pic, and see how they explain this happens......

I'd enjoy using a single 1000 HPS split into 2 500's..lol

 

[B. Friendly]

just buy two 600 watt ballast & bulbs and you'll save compared to a 1000watt, especially if it's the old style ballast to a new digital ballast.
Two 600's are suppost to be less than a single 1000 on your electricity I have read many times.

 

[dachieftan]

my local indoor garden store recently gave me a bunch of sunpulse 600w MH 3.2k bulbs used for flowering. Everyone has had really bad feedback from them so the store is no longer selling sun pulse and they wanted to unload them. There is a sunpulse MH flower bulb thread round' her somewhere & the majority of peepz are upset w/ the yields... Should've expected that from flowering with an MH. I don't intend on using the bulbs the shop gave me, but if an HPS bulb burned out and I have no immediate replacement then I might bust em out. Sun pulse seems like they spend more $ in advertising as opposed to investing into making a better product IMO.

 

[Pompey_Monkey]

Hmmmm...

I just can't light emitting diodes and females out of my head when I see outlandish claims like that...

200W out of thin air? What's all that about?


EDIT: Just read the "white papers" on the site. They're just a bunch of gibberish scientific terms bundled together. Just one example states that plants don't use more than 160W per centimetre squared of light. I should bloody well hope so, as that equates to 1.6MW per metre squared - we'd all be fried!

Just for reference, the wikipedia states that the maximum solar irradiance on earth is 1.413kW per metre squared...

 

[Incognegro]

Hmmm...looks like one of those bendable figure toys...

Any literature on these things?

 

[siddhartha]

So no one with a light meter has given it a go?

 

[Incognegro]

I don't know of any way to produce wattage outta thin air... you'd have to bump up the ballast...

i'm thinking they're simply splitting the 1000watts into 2 500's and actually under firing there 600s...just my 2cents though...

 

[siddhartha]

Ya 2 500s is what I was thinking. Kinda what i am after, was thinking of using an old Growzilla hood i have with a blended spectrum. Oh well, i will let someone else go first with this.

 

[bendoslendo]

Hmmm...looks like one of those bendable figure toys...

Any literature on these things?

That's my cousin.

 

[mrcreosote]

Hey bendo...

You better watch your cousin around Pokey...

He looks kinda shady.

 

[Big Tree]

any updates on this

any updates on this

I was thinking of using these with a flip flop box to spread more light. I have a few extra hoods I'm not using but I see no one has tried these yet. It's funny how Sunpulse says to only use their bulbs with electronic ballast but if using their splitter to only use a mag ballast?? The whole idea sounds odd.

 

[onegreenday]

They just under powering their 600 watt bulbs
through the splitter. A light meter will show reduced

lumens in the 600 watt splitter bulb;
from a full 600 watt ballast.

2 - 600 watts will cover more area than 1- 1000 watt
because it's split between 2 reflectors and

you get the blend factor if you place the horizontal reflectors
parallel to each other.

 

[Growbrass]

just buy two 600 watt ballast & bulbs and you'll save compared to a 1000watt, especially if it's the old style ballast to a new digital ballast.
Two 600's are suppost to be less than a single 1000 on your electricity I have read many times.

You have read wrong information many times....


I think it's V * A = W

So 120 * A = 600 here A = 5
and 120 * A = 1000 here A = 8.333



Two 600 watt ballasts and bulbs will never run less than a single 1000w ballast.

 

[bobblehead]

I saw it, and it looks like a bad idea to me... As I recall, the dual 600w magnetic ballasts meant for running 2 600w lamps had issues, and I don't see this thing being any better... Just a gimmick to get money. If you want to spread the light out using a flip, that's a much better idea... that's what I'm doing in my grow.