if i got the remote ballast could i use any reflector i wanted?just.read.this.thread in it's entirety, how would u compare the light distribution of the 600 reflectors compared to other reflectors such as a adjust a wing.
Thanks.
Everytime I open the tent I get this amazing feeling of, omg, where have these lights been all my life. It's astounding.
Just read through the thread, the garden looks great.
Does the lep300 run cooler because of the cool tube like reflector, or does the bulb just give off less heat?
The 600 and 1000 gavitas are similar in heat output to hps 600 and 1000? Does gavita offer an ac design reflector for those, and if not why?
Seems funny that the low wattage plasma bulb is air cooled but not the high wattage bulbs.
I'd guess that the money lost in any scale grow by using an air-cooled reflector vs. open bare bulb style is more than enough to cover the cost of an adequate A/C in the first 1-3 grows. Making every grow thereafter more profitable and further dialed with a sealed box and CO2.
Think long term, not one grow cycle.
My $.02 on the matter anyhow.
This is an excellent point. Thought of another way, the money saved on AC costs with aircooled hoods is immediately spent on loss of efficiency from the extra pane of glass between bulb and plants.
I can still see good reasons to offer aircooled hoods, however. These include needing to keep a space cooler than AC allows, or simple poverty- most systems are built up a bit at a time, out of profits from earlier grows. It can be too tall a mountain to climb if the grower has to come up with all this stuff up front, before his crop comes in!