Anybody use a 200PAR full cycle? Recommended coverage for flowering?
I've flowered a run of Blue Dream in a 5 gal bucket with a single 200. While the site says 48 x 48 I'd only count on that area for veg. Taking into consideration final flowering you'll want to be 12-16" away it'll be more like a 36 x36 area coverage you end up with.
I have an Inda-Gro 200 and 420. I don't work for Inda-Gro. I chose Inda-Gro because SoCal Edison ramps our rates up to $.35 kWh. Temps here in the summer are over 100. I have been to the Inda-Gro office when I bought my lights. I met the engineer (forget his name), nice guy and very helpful. Met the nice lady in the office when I paid for my lights. I get nothing from Inda-Gro. I gave them money, they gave me product, end of story.
There are a lot of reasons behind running these lamps. High utility bills is certainly one of the biggest reasons but also that the lamps are forgiving for the newbie in that even on a first grow you're going to end up with something to smoke. After that you just know you can do better and then you are hooked.
Inda-Gro only has 5 people in their offices; Darryl is the owner, Jeff is the electrical engineer, Jeo is the gardener, Kim (a good one to know if you ever need a ballast cross shipped under warranty) and Cindy do the admin. There are another 15 people I'd guess doing the fab/wiring/board work. If you're ever in SD you can tour the place and see the process start thru finish.
Rolli made it sound like he was feed up with IG and that they had made a bunch of sock puppets so i think this is more just a case of a lil misdirected aggression... Never said a thing about nutes so idk if that played a hand, but he sadi he warned spliff previously idk if it was recent warning though....If anything got spliff banned it was how outspoken he was aginst igrow/FSS...
So it was a combination of 'sock puppets', Spliff ignoring a previous warning and the recounting of his personal experiences with the USDA approved igrow lights that all combined got him permanently banned in a fit of misdirected aggression? I don't believe it. If not for the nutes post which Hyroot makes a compelling reason why his ban is not related to that post I think it's also possible that something else may have occurred.
It's possible that RIU may have received a law firm letter threatening impending legal action in that the site was aiding and abetting the slandering of FSS/igrow in an orchestrated campaign that would show that actual damages were being caused by these posts. This type of action by FSS would not surprise me in the least in that they are constantly directing their lawyers to send out threatening Cease and Desist type letters claiming patent infringement, slander, not made in the USA, etc etc etc. Of course these letters are meaningless and FSS won't take legal action because it's not only expensive to bring these matters to trial it is especially problematic if the suit lacks merit. In fact there is a real risk that the defendant would prove the case to be frivolous and seek malicious prosecution damages for having to defend the case. That type of loss would lay bare any future FSS claims that a threatening letter from a law firm representing the big bad number one in the world made in the USA, USDA approved blah blah blah FSS/igrow might hope to achieve when sending these letters. This is not a far fetched scenario and is one of a few methods FSS employs to make their competition go away.
In 2010 FSS filed a formal complaint with the DOE that charged every company in the US, except for FSS, who sold an induction light fixture claiming it was made in the USA was in violation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The complaint filed by their lapdog Congressman Mark Schauer (who was defeated shortly after this complaint was filed) was sent to VP Joe Biden who than leaned on the DOE on behalf of the good working men and women of the State of Michingan to launch an official investigation of these charges. The case was investigated by the DOE visiting the accused manufacturers sites. After visiting the sites the DOE determined that these competitor manufacturers were not in violation of the ARRA and closed the entire case in just 11 days. For FSS to still me making these types of claims today and firing off these letters is patently absurd. Little people. Little minds.
http://votesmart.org/public-statement/522858/schauer-calls-on-administration-to-crack-down-on-firms-that-violate-arra-buy-american-provisions#
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2010/06/companies_said_to_have_acted_f.html
http://energy.gov/gc/articles/energy-department-closes-buy-american-investigation-lighting-sales
If FSS/igrow were to be successful in their attempts to shut down all competition the only 'Made in the USA' induction lamps you'd be able to buy for your garden would the Veg and Bloom lamps our old friend Spliff reviewed at the prices igrow chose to set. Integrity. You either have it or you don't.
Rolli how about bringing Spliff back. He's good for RIU. If you've got to ban someone over all this ban me instead.
Amazing considering all the mistakes I made.
