There is a single word that usually ends the light arguement.
INTENSITY
No matter how many lights you put in a series, a row, a fancy checkered pattern, a reflector or any other hoopla does it generate a higher intensity of light. You get WAY better coverage with all those bulbs, but they arent as intense as most noobs think though.
Its in your eyes, its a visual effect. You naturally want to believe that its brighter because there is more, but there isnt any brighter light, there just more of the same intensity light brewing around.
The intensity of the light boils down to the ignition of the light. Lights "Burn" so to say. Flo's warm gases, not really burning them. You see it and have been told,"the lights on" your whole life so most people dont think about the nitty gritty behind how a bulb works. The light produced is a controlled "Burn" and that requires energy. More energy=higher intense burn.
Anyways, no matter how many of the same light you have running, it never changes the insides of the bulb(fillament/gasses). It isnt capable of making a more intense light, because nothing about the construction of the bulb changed.
You need more juice in the box to make a more intense light.
Thats why HID lights need ballasts. Regular 110v isnt strong enough to ignite the bulb because the goods that produce light are built so strongly to handle extreme power to burn brighter then average. With flo's Theres just more of them, but none get any stronger just because there is another one sitting next to it.
Its actually just a concentrated amount of directed light. It cannot burn you like a HID light can, even with 1,000,000,000 leds because its not intense enough.
But a single 70w HPS will burn the skin off your fingers. 70w HPS is more intense then any amount of LED lights but obviously you could get better results with an LED panel thats less intense due to greater coverage.
And that is what fuels this argument.
People think results/yeild equate to Physics, and it doesnt.
In the lighting world bigger usually means higher intensity. It does not always mean better or best, simply more powerfull.
Of course if you stick a CFL on every single bud, that bud is going to get better light then it might have coming from one source above.
BUT, that does not mean CFL's get any brighter/better with quantity.
INTENSITY
No matter how many lights you put in a series, a row, a fancy checkered pattern, a reflector or any other hoopla does it generate a higher intensity of light. You get WAY better coverage with all those bulbs, but they arent as intense as most noobs think though.
Its in your eyes, its a visual effect. You naturally want to believe that its brighter because there is more, but there isnt any brighter light, there just more of the same intensity light brewing around.
The intensity of the light boils down to the ignition of the light. Lights "Burn" so to say. Flo's warm gases, not really burning them. You see it and have been told,"the lights on" your whole life so most people dont think about the nitty gritty behind how a bulb works. The light produced is a controlled "Burn" and that requires energy. More energy=higher intense burn.
Anyways, no matter how many of the same light you have running, it never changes the insides of the bulb(fillament/gasses). It isnt capable of making a more intense light, because nothing about the construction of the bulb changed.
You need more juice in the box to make a more intense light.
Thats why HID lights need ballasts. Regular 110v isnt strong enough to ignite the bulb because the goods that produce light are built so strongly to handle extreme power to burn brighter then average. With flo's Theres just more of them, but none get any stronger just because there is another one sitting next to it.
Its actually just a concentrated amount of directed light. It cannot burn you like a HID light can, even with 1,000,000,000 leds because its not intense enough.
But a single 70w HPS will burn the skin off your fingers. 70w HPS is more intense then any amount of LED lights but obviously you could get better results with an LED panel thats less intense due to greater coverage.
And that is what fuels this argument.
People think results/yeild equate to Physics, and it doesnt.
In the lighting world bigger usually means higher intensity. It does not always mean better or best, simply more powerfull.
Of course if you stick a CFL on every single bud, that bud is going to get better light then it might have coming from one source above.
BUT, that does not mean CFL's get any brighter/better with quantity.
