Hurk
Member
This is something I've thought about for years but I've never had the opportunity to try out. I'm hoping maybe someone around here might have tried this or maybe someone feels like experimenting. Or just tell me that I'm crazy and why this would never work.
So my idea is to either supplement hid lighting with gas lights, or to just use gas lights on their own. Hell they used to light the streets with these things a hundred years ago! They gotta do something for our plants right?
Well one thing I know they would do is give off co2. To me it seems crazy to have a co2 burner when you could hook up a light to that propane tank and it would produce the same co2!
Lets take these guys lamps just as an example:
http://www.americangaslamp.com/facts.html
Now they say that each mantle is equal to 50 watts, and it looks like their lights come with either 2, 3, or 4 mantles. They say the dual mantle light consumes 2125 btu's.
So lets say you were to put 4 quad mantle lamps into a room, they could replace a 17,000 btu co2 burner, at the same time as providing an extra 800 watts(equivalent) lighting.
Now I must say that I have no idea what spectrum a gas light produces or if it would be beneficial to our plants, but its got to at least beat a burner, right?
And hey, if you were able to pull off a grow using gas lights alone, that's one way you could beat the electric company.
So my idea is to either supplement hid lighting with gas lights, or to just use gas lights on their own. Hell they used to light the streets with these things a hundred years ago! They gotta do something for our plants right?
Well one thing I know they would do is give off co2. To me it seems crazy to have a co2 burner when you could hook up a light to that propane tank and it would produce the same co2!
Lets take these guys lamps just as an example:
http://www.americangaslamp.com/facts.html
Now they say that each mantle is equal to 50 watts, and it looks like their lights come with either 2, 3, or 4 mantles. They say the dual mantle light consumes 2125 btu's.
So lets say you were to put 4 quad mantle lamps into a room, they could replace a 17,000 btu co2 burner, at the same time as providing an extra 800 watts(equivalent) lighting.
Now I must say that I have no idea what spectrum a gas light produces or if it would be beneficial to our plants, but its got to at least beat a burner, right?
And hey, if you were able to pull off a grow using gas lights alone, that's one way you could beat the electric company.
