you need a certain type of ballast to run a de lamp,not just any digi ballast will run these lamps correct because they run higher volts and mhz.there are some cheaper versions out there like phantom & galaxy.the galaxy like this one has 2 types of lamp cord connections built in.
Yet low frequency square wave can drive a DE just fine. Isn't that right, @Revolution Micro ?
can you do it,maybe for a while.should you do it,no.how many de lamps are you running this way tty lol.wait,how many de lamps are you running at all ?Yet low frequency square wave can drive a DE just fine. Isn't that right, @Revolution Micro ?
Y'all might giggle at this news; the ONLY direct competitor I am aware of to your square wave tech at the 1kW output level has discontinued their product. Yes, the Horti Platinum thouie is no more! Dumb move, if you ask me.
Guess someone else is just going to have to step into that market with an affordable, powerful, efficient, technically advanced product. Any ideas who might fit the bill?
So when am I getting a call from your engineer, anyway?
I'm skipping completely over the DE level of light performance and efficiency and straight to COB LED. I believe it's a cost effective move for me.
Everything you do every day inside your grow tent or out of it was designed, created or improved by engineers. Laughing at them doesn't make you look any smarter at all.
bro i dont use tents for growing,and no engineers were harmed in the making of my buds so easy does it with all that techtalk.again you CAN do it,doesnt make it right OR smart lol.just having seen the output from a ushio lamp in my gavita fixture tells me they dont have a clue what gavita is doing inside the lamp and ballast because a used phillips 750w lamp(13 months) is brighter than a brand new 1000w ushio in my gavita ballast.so i know somethings not right even though its says right on the side of the box its made for de.it reminds me of this hahaahahaha
COB is LED for people who don't have access to automated assembly equipment. As we say: LEDs is LEDs. You can make your own COB modules if you've got the right toys in the shop! Cree does, Osram does, we do too. I like LEDs.
Ah, not so!
Was I supposed to call you? Man ... Email me your number. Sorry if I fubar'ed that!Yet low frequency square wave can drive a DE just fine. Isn't that right, @Revolution Micro ?
Y'all might giggle at this news; the ONLY direct competitor I am aware of to your square wave tech at the 1kW output level has discontinued their product. Yes, the Horti Platinum thouie is no more! Dumb move, if you ask me.
Guess someone else is just going to have to step into that market with an affordable, powerful, efficient, technically advanced product. Any ideas who might fit the bill?
So when am I getting a call from your engineer, anyway?
Who's underestimating electrical bills are not a cost?
No matter what the technology, LED, SED or HID, Watts into the room is Watts AC has to remove unless you have them ducted outside. There's a common fantasy that an 1000w LED is somehow cooler than an 1000w of anything else, but watts is watts. Unless the light is doing some mechanical shaft work, watts into the light is watts of heat in the room.
exactly ,never mind all the extra rf you will get running it wrong,kinda like saying you play guitar then picking up an untuned axe and hacking your way through smoke on the water,it sounds like shit and your friends will say that sucks lmao. @ttystikk your gunna need more backup
i never said anyone claims its not a cost.. i'm saying some people do not understand how high your bill can get if you live in a densely populated area. therefore, making Electricity cost a more important factor to consider depending on where you live.
I think that depends on the farming situation. But your right in so many ways, but there are some who don't blink twice at paying lets say a 3000.00 electric bill. and there are some that don't blink at paying 200.00 electric bill. Beyond the electric bill i believe whats most attractive about cob fixtures is the foot print one gets vs the wattage. I mean its unreal. But if your replacing a 1000 watt hps lamp with 800 watts of cob your still paying some good bucks towards electric. Just my thoughts bro, every one grows different and has different ways.
Thats what i like to do also. Some times those bitches though......................
very true, also "comfort" is a factor in my grow. my roomate has to sleep in the same room as the tent, our house does not have AC and it gets in the 100s in the summer and an HPS would just make that room unbearable! I just ordered 800w of cob "equivalent" to 1600w of HPS, we're putting it in a 4x4 flower room, installing and flipping by the end of the week, ill post the results!
