Those numbers can help you decide how close the light can be to your canopy, if you didn’t know. “According to science 1200 uMols is just overkill” – You post yours, I’ll post mine:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23572895#
Where are you getting all these random figures from? And why do you keep saying PPF? Do you even know what that acronym means?
Numbers are important, much morose than you guys seem capable of understanding. Even when you grow, you need to collect the ‘numbers’ – but you guys don’t, lol. You just grow plants, take pictures of them, weigh the bud at the end, and then boom you think you’ve conducted a scientific experiment. Lol.
Do you know what the graph shows? How about you do your best to tell me what you think it shows. We aren’t talking about any of those factors (medium, genetics, nutrients, etc.), we are talking about the lighting system. Your analogies are cute.
You don’t even know what your results are. How would you?
Why do you think efficiency is only related to PPF? You don’t think a fixture’s PPFD score is relevant to the overall ‘efficiency’ of its efficacy? You can put these fixtures in a sphere and note the total photon output relative to its power draw all you want, that metric isn’t the most important by a long shot. I will say it again, designing lighting systems is about
distributing photon output. Hence the ‘D’ in PPF
D. The efficiency of the available diodes on the market has no where near the variance that the efficiency of distributing photon output has in the market today.
I’d consider switching to a fixture with a 37% lower PPFD score to be a “wasteful practice” – but that’s just me.
They are expensive, for what they are. That’s why their price got beat.
You do realize some of the major reasons they’re so easily copied is outlined in your own post, right?
Did they? No. I would have seen it in the reference material I received from my own patent search. I know damn well how much it all costs, because I was smart enough to pay for it. Your mistaken in thinking it’s the cost that is why HLG has no patents. They have no patents because they have nothing patentable. What do you think they could even patent? And why do you instantly assume lower quality components are used for the new boards released by KingBrite? I bet they’re the damn same lol.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t turned a profit, and never will. Its not about what they deserve, its about how they failed to protect the little they had.
You quite literally have no idea what you purchased. I am not surprised you
used to run a business.