Greengenes707
Well-Known Member
It's just what he does.Most hydro shops have PAR meters that can be rented. Or just spend 250-350 bucks and buy your own quality PAR meter. A simple Lux meter wont give you PAR readings but certainly could be useful in overall distribution.
His reply to you will be like this..."quality for 250$?...apogees can't read deeper than 660nm."
Little do all the people that bitch about apogees sensor...they come very close to a spectroradiometer in practice. Actually read closer to the spectroradiometer than the more accepted Li-core from my experience with white based lights. And can be calibrated to a specific spectrum if consistent testing of one is needed...even heavy deep red ones.
So does anyone who actually has experience with hand held PAR meter and a spectroradiometer want to chime in...or are we just jerking off to data sheets to look cool.
And on that note... does everyone that doesn't believe apogee is "quality"...completely ignore any PAR charts that use them? (being rhetorical here)