I believe at such high frequencies a wire between the ballast and a DE bulb can be a radio interference nightmare and may have some signal loss issues. I assume it is this direct connection that puts this one peice technology over the top as for performance numbers.
LoL That's what LED manufactures were saying 5 years ago
They have been around for five years now. Their ballasts give very little heat and no RF noise since they are so close.
Do me a favor and go back 5 years, read all the theoretical hype sold with those generations of over priced and under-performing products and then do the math. Like with solar and wind power over that same time frame, there are targeted losers when manufactures sell such theoretical technology backed more so by dogged ideology rather than the facts of the matter. The winners and losers are clear and premeditated, there is no theory to this very lucrative and successful "green" business model.
I just did and it doesn't look good... Sure a HPS can cause too much heat, doesn't mean the opposite, 'cooling a room', is the goal. Tropical plants... A HPS provides just enough warmth to provide an optimal climate as long as you got proper ventilation set up and don't think the hps needs to be close to the plant. Of course a 1k watter requires more headroom than a 600 or 400w.... to cover a much larger surface.
tell that to my power bill... 50% for cooling 50% for lighting... at least. if i cant get away with air vented 600w and supplemental lighting to have a room cool HELL YA. AC's are a pain in the dick. either expensive as all hell or you got heat jizzing all over the place out of the back of your unit... either way headache city. a new cooling solution is very welcome in my world.
Yes, that's the thing isn't, I had that discussion here a while back, it depends a lot on where 'your world' is and the climate over there, in particular the temp of the air you suck in. If that's not cooler than you want the grow space to be...
I don't know man, I don't see a reason for a conspiracy here. Philips is so large they can afford to do it. They announced it also on national television in some tv program. Making so much money on the illegal mj grow industry is bad marketing. Gavita has been competing with Phillips for years, they may be new-ish in the US forums, but they've been around for a while.
or if you dont wanna bring in outside air cause you live in a mini jungle with vines and weeds all over my house and mites everywhere outside.
That's how they started. They've been developing their own bulbs since a couple of years ago, the first DE at 1950 umol, second one (pro de el, available since last year) offers 2100umol. Designed by Gavita, and exclusively manufactured for them in Germany. EDIT: just read a PRO DE EL PLUS is in the making.