Just followed the link to that website and every light comes up with a price of $249. Must be some sort of error but maybe you can use that to your advantage. I don't know a thing about UFO's and I thought they were a seperate manufacturer but after doing some googling looks like a bunch of people make them. Probably just a common case design. A 600W UFO, FM how big would that be?
On a side note, I had the joy of experimenting with liquid nitrogen-dipped leds this week, they get much more intense when cooled!
For computers, I recall a figure loosely remembered as 10C drop in temp will double lifespan. If you have experience in building computers, you may be well are that the STOCK setup is extremely inferior to aftermarket coolers, although with the new high end procs Intel is including a decent cooler. For performance purposes, your heat threshold is directly related to overclocking stability (i.e. a stock cooler will overclock much less than a good cooler with plenty of surface area). The reason for this is price-- Intel switched to a half-sized heatsink a few years back-- roughly half the material will save roughly half the cost. Surely the Blackstar folks had this same thing in mind--- save themselves dough by not including finned heatsinks. Taking that into account, you can buy heatsinks to mount to that aluminum plate and this will greatly improve heat dispersion. To illustrate, imagine applying heat to a metal plate-- if you view it in infrared there will be a circle of heat radiating out from the point the heat is applied. Assuming this is something just barely too hot to hold your hand against, if you were to add a heatsink you could hold your hand against it all day.
Someone plz pass along that infrared temp info too, they're only 20 bucks on Newegg, I use mine everyday!
Also, you can buy heat-sinks from newegg and many others.
Thanks for the response dunit, if they weren't closed on weekends I'd just call em saturday, but I noticed that pricing issue too, was hoping for a break haha! I'll try to find out on Monday about that UFO model.
It says it replaces 1000W HPS-- maybe I can get by with fewer)<--- 3 year warranty
took the words right out of my mouth. boasting around gram/watt ratios is misleading that everyone could do this with any strain. I have seen side by side grows showing things off and the only ones that impressed me were people that had been growing for quite a while and i dont remember them getting that full 1g/w ratio. My current set of ladies isnt going to crop out at 1g/w otherwise im going to have some huge ass autoflowers considering i only have 3 in 3 gallon pots and this is at 100w. I will say though that I'm very impressed with the growth i got from my blackstar led as it vegged very nicely and is in the second week of flowering tomorrow and i am still seeing more and more new bud sites popping up EVERYWHERE. I will report my finding on using the blackstars on a g/w ratio but i think most will laugh at the results but not the smoke it produces. I'm seriously tired of people getting into a dick measuring contest around here about lights of all things. I honestly believe that if i pulled even 2.5 oz off my 3 lovelies then ima boss nigga considering this is the first grow ive even attempted when it comes to MJ. I have a green thumb from growing up on a farm but this is a little new to me to grow indoors. I have a much better understanding already though and i think i will be outperforming my first ratio by leaps and bounds on my second grow once i know my setup better and dial in on the genetics of what i grow. Remember that most people will be too scared to do things like Scrog or Fim or better yet HST on the crop to really maximize the yields. But thats just my .02
