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I've seen dudes flowering the entire grow with MH and there wasnt a huge yield drop and those hardly have any reds in them. The LEP has much more red then an MH, and much more of a usable spectrum. So in my opinion... I think they would be great for flowering if the light was intense enough.
So a LEP to me, would be like a daylight colored CFL on steroids. I dont see how you could go wrong with a CFL on steroids... lol
I used to love cfls, then I found ho t5.
Now I have LEP. Or should I say my ladies have LEP. I currently have a candle and the glowing cherry of my late night Chemdog D spliff to light my night.
Well we will soon see when Luxim releases the new more powerful version. Because the results of a current LEP stand alone does not deliver from what I have seen and read online.I've seen dudes flowering the entire grow with MH and there wasnt a huge yield drop and those hardly have any reds in them. The LEP has much more red then an MH, and much more of a usable spectrum. So in my opinion... I think they would be great for flowering if the light was intense enough.
So a LEP to me, would be like a daylight colored CFL on steroids. I dont see how you could go wrong with a CFL on steroids... lol
Too bad you can't scale up CFL effectively, I feel the same way about 'em!
Im gonna get a 4'x8' sheet of plywood and wire and hot glue hundreds of CFL's to the board. Then flip it around and hang it like a reflector. lol. Scaled up CFL...
No way dude- do it like this: go to your local used building supply store, we have a Habitat for Humanity store locally, for instance- and pick up a bunch of old bathroom fixtures, the shiny ones with 4 or 5 lights in a row for like $2 apiece. Arrange them like ties on a railroad track, and then attach them to 'rails' of 1" x 2" strips. Wire them up (in parallel, not in series!), and voila!- instant CFL array, for stupid cheap compared to buying a T5! I've built two of them; one was 6 fixtures of 4 lights each, and the other was... yep... 5 x 5... roger that!
They're even tunable, as you can put CFLs of widely varying wattages and colors in them. I'd use them instead of 400W HID any day, because the light is much more evenly distributed and the bulbs never get hot enough to burn plants unless they're actually touching them.
LoL... I was just joking... but maybe I will give that a shot some day. Sounds like it wouold be a pretty good veg light.
Haha.. you were right about the grin.... Yeah... I've been thinking about messing around with something like that for a while. I just dont have the time I guess.
You should manufacture them and sell them to people like me....
The light source itself is very efficient, but to get to that light in the process you have losses. Theere are the psu losses, the driver efficiency, the transmission losses and the emitter losses. As LEP evolves it will get more efficient. Don't count on a higher power lep to become available soon.Whilst the unit is rated as 300w, that is the power consumption, not light output.
The bulb it self is outputting around 180w I believe, whazzup can confirm this.
Theherbalizor; sorry 'bout the thread jack, if enough people are interested in this, I'll make a new thread for it.
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