Hey everybody, I was talking to a friend of mine who has been an electrician for 27 years, he's not a grower, but has been paid to set up rooms for some people in NY and Fla, so I showed him the specs of these ballasts and de bulbs, and what he told me was that a 240v ballast can not properly power a bulb that is meant to be fired at 400v, and it makes sense to me also because the ballast is a 160v short of the required voltage need to fire these bulbs, it's asking for trouble
An issue I have with these light systems is the fact that they must be almost 3 feet above the top of the canopy and the inverse law of the power of the light being halved at every foot between the distance of your plants and the light source, I know for a fact that I can get an air cooled lumatek 1000w between 8-12 inches from my plants, so it seems logical that I have more light penetration and more actual usable light reaching my plants
The whole thing about the claims of the lamps seems like fools gold, a marketing tactic looking to cash in on un informed growers world wide, because I know that I can get 2lb's per light with my basic lumatek in my rooms with a strain that is an average yielder in a room whose temps are consistent with proper air exchange and a decent nutrient regiment.
I'm just trying to let fellow growers become informed about the claims of these so called magical beanstalk ballasts and bulbs, people should realize that when the next great grow room light systems come out, they will not be some so called supercharged hps system, but rather they will be an LED light system who will have the proper light spectrum and a more improved light penetration compared to LED panels of today, then again maybe they won't be LED systems but maybe some futuristic alien light source, just saying
An issue I have with these light systems is the fact that they must be almost 3 feet above the top of the canopy and the inverse law of the power of the light being halved at every foot between the distance of your plants and the light source, I know for a fact that I can get an air cooled lumatek 1000w between 8-12 inches from my plants, so it seems logical that I have more light penetration and more actual usable light reaching my plants
The whole thing about the claims of the lamps seems like fools gold, a marketing tactic looking to cash in on un informed growers world wide, because I know that I can get 2lb's per light with my basic lumatek in my rooms with a strain that is an average yielder in a room whose temps are consistent with proper air exchange and a decent nutrient regiment.
I'm just trying to let fellow growers become informed about the claims of these so called magical beanstalk ballasts and bulbs, people should realize that when the next great grow room light systems come out, they will not be some so called supercharged hps system, but rather they will be an LED light system who will have the proper light spectrum and a more improved light penetration compared to LED panels of today, then again maybe they won't be LED systems but maybe some futuristic alien light source, just saying