i can only appologise for the poor quality of the pics but i was taking pictures of pictures in a magazine using just my mobile phone camera, i only took the pics so people could get a rough idea of what they look like and what theyre about, im logged in here on my phone with a tiny 2" square screen and i can see the pics ok, i suggest u put your goggles on.... JK lol
But where can you buy them?
i cant watch that vid coz i cant get that flash player thing on my fone, but iv seen a vid on youtube of something similar with an extremely bright tic-tac sized bulb, but if it produces 140 lumens per watt as crooked says then my 600hps produces more, my 600 produces 96.000lumens (when new) 96000 divided by 600 equals 160. A 1340w sp lamp produces 600.000 lumens thats 447.7 lumens p/watt, ud need 4286 watts of those tic-tac lights to produce 600040 lumens, and does it say in that vid that the tic-tac lights are even the correct spectrum, let alone as close to the suns as the sp is, the sp is the "sun on earth" the-tic lights look as tho they are made for other lighting applications where spectral distribution isnt as important, the sp is designed from the ground up for horticulture.
Can't you elaborate on that a bit more. Why is it these don't do what is claimed all over the net?
Sounds a bit ludite-ish to me. Maybe I'm just an wishful thinker!
at the moment no i dont think hps/mh are in danger of being replaced. But in our ever eco-concered world i think people will be turned on to the idea of replacing multiple hps/mh with one or two sp lamps using a fraction of the power. I never said the 1000w version produced 600.000 lumens, its the 1340w that kicks out that amount of lumens, measured at the volkswagen factory and witnessed by Roland Loosli of growbox.ch, personally i dont think a magazine would publish this kind of info if it were untrue? personally i believe sp is the future of growing, and we'l see when the first units hit the uk and the first real at home not huge lab testing begins and when the retail price falls to half of what it will be whens its released il be sure to be getting one. Im no scientist so im not going to argue in great depth about sp's claims. Im merely passing on information seen in a magazine.
indeed the red/orange spectrum isnt as closely matched to the sun as the blue/green but no other light still even comes as close mh/hps spectral distribution charts are full of peaks and troughs only being high only in very narrow bands of the spectrum, the sp provides full broad spectrum free from any troughs.
a 1340w sp lamp pulls just that 1340w, well slightly more from the socket. As for heat i dont know how much exactly but less than mh/hps.
