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I wouldn’t mess w anything air cooled bro. The light has to shine thru the glass which reduces its intensity close to ten percent even w perfectly clean glass which even w a good filter it never will be. And that’s one pass thru a single pane. When it hits the reflector it then has to pass thru the glass again losing another ten percent of the reflected portion and with a cool tube it’s even worse cuz the glass goes all the way around the bulb so essentially two panes for the reflected portion. Super inefficient. On top of that light itself is heat so you still have to actively cool your room. It seems like it’d be great all the light w no heat but that’s just not the case. I used to run magnum xxl air cooled w 8” ports had it ducted mint w solid ducting and a really good inline and I still had to have an intake exhaust to cool my room and in the winter I had to constantly clean the glass w rainx to keep it from fogging up and dripping. Honestly when u consider all the moving parts, fans, light loss extra work cleaning glass etc it’s actually more efficient just running an ac especially for the heat load you’re dealing w for a single light. Fuck it! A 6/750 and a one ton ac you will be so happy. Check back in w diesel n I frequently and you’ll hit some good numbers/quality guaranteedI see now why you mentioned co2 Pharm.more heat is required and favourable when running co2,plants are more heat tolerant when using it, but some plants are better at it than others.i have been looking at the cooltubes and how the ducting works and takes just the heat from lamp than the room...gee there more one than way to skin a cat hey.
I like this....expensive to setup though..
Maybe i can do something like this down the track as once i get a year or 3 under my belt
I can improve the yield further...i cant wait to start..