Herb Forester
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Uh oh...
Uh oh...Wow, man very impressive. Gives me some motivation to get started on another project.
Glad I have gavitas been rocking them since before the hype. Shit may have helped create the hype.
This video is a joke. They aren't actually measuring the amount of crossover light the e-pap gives. They only measured the amount of light on the ground. The e-pap is pushing a lot of that light all on the sides of that tent where they didn't measure it. The gavita pushes all the light directly down. If you only have one lamp or are in a tent a Gavita is a better hood for your needs. When you get into big commercial spaces you maximize the sideways throw with long rows of lamps. Something they didn't actually measure at all. They just assumed that the crossover light is on the outer part of their tents and hitting the floor. The real success with the e-pap is that a lot of the light they didn't even measure at all (the stuff hitting the sides of the tent) will end up hitting the canopy of the plants one or two fixtures down your row.
Put four e-paps in a 10x10 tent and you'll see a much different number. I've seen all sorts of measures in e-paps rooms and 800 is pretty low.
This run is only the 3rd run with those fixtures since they've been purchased. I wasn't growing for around 9-10 months because of traveling.Have you replaced your bulbs, or are you still seeing optimum performance from the bulb that came w unit?
And yes I certainly followed your thread. It gave inspiration. You and your boy could prob build out those sheds and sell them as turn key.
TK, what material are you going to use to finish off your walls? I was going to build some 14ft wide rooms for tables and then build trays with casters so I could keep the tables together for cross lighting and then be able to pull them apart to access the middle.. have you tried this? or would you still build 12ft wide with one row in the middle?Got my framing and electrical rough in inspections done and signed off of, ran all the camera wiring and am about to button up the walls..Ill take some pics and get them up soon. The epap/gavi grow got the "CO" last week now have to fight the licensing process with the state and local government thugs and then off to the races.
So you rock epaps I'm betting?It isn't 33% more lighting to achieve the same results. It's some tech telling you how to hang lights and you assuming everything would be the same. Gavita has told people out here to throw up gavitas on 3 foot centers. It doesn't prove anything. They have the same amount of light, they're the same bulb. It's how you want the throw. The e-pap throws more of it sideways, look at the reflector, doesn't take a mastermind to see that. The Gavita throws it all down. It's the radiant 8 of double ended hoods. Works great for a lot of people's needs.
The e-pap gets better cross light if both systems are hung on 5 foot centers. It isn't "miraculous". Look in the tent half that epap light is bouncing off the walls. But if there were no walls there that same light would be hitting canopy. Do the same test with four hoods in a 10x10 tent and you'll see different results. The gavita has hot spots, so much so you have to replace the aluminum reflector. The e-pap doesn't, it runs cooler. I've yet to see multiple hundreds of gavitas hung but i've seen hundreds and hundreds of e-paps in commercial facilities.
TK, what material are you going to use to finish off your walls? I was going to build some 14ft wide rooms for tables and then build trays with casters so I could keep the tables together for cross lighting and then be able to pull them apart to access the middle.. have you tried this? or would you still build 12ft wide with one row in the middle?
nice link.. I think Ill install airplane hanger doors on the side of each room and just roll the trays from veg to bloom to shipping!https://www.google.com/search?q=rolling benches&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS595US595&espv=2&tbm=isch&imgil=_FLdaf3gGmbHvM%3A%3BlXzI_XdWImoJvM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.greenhousemegastore.com%252Fproduct%252Fsteel-rolling-benches%252Frolling-bench-top-metal-benches&source=iu&usg=__QUDsS-mRjwCaaf_kQTdar-c6ehA=&sa=X&ei=qnf7U6jgOKbfsASFtICYBw&ved=0CC8Q9QEwAA&biw=1366&bih=667#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=_FLdaf3gGmbHvM%3A;lXzI_XdWImoJvM;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenhousemegastore.com%2Fimages%2FSteel-rolling-diag-650.gif;https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenhousemegastore.com%2Fproduct%2Fsteel-rolling-benches%2Frolling-bench-top-metal-benches;642;472
im going this route.
Man yall are kinda Gumming up this thread....there is at least three active threads on the lights yall are bickering about....move the discussion over there. When someone asks a dang question too Texas kid how bout we let the dude answer....
Walls are finished with FRP up to 10' or 12'...Have y'all seen the new PL Lighting DE fixtures...titties!! bout to do some silly shit with these fixtures
http://www.pllight.com/products/fixtures/hse-nxt-ii/
Big tip of the month...Co2 in veg is more benificial in veg than in flower...my veg rooms are killin it and I have shaved probably 21 days off my veg cycle times
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