No, it's me giving My Man EvilMobo solid advice. Not your False Led Weather Reports
Butt-Cheese. Over here stearing your boy in the exact opposite direction he should be going. Led has changed tremendously since dude was around. He was a tester of the truth like me n sometimes you. There's absolutely NO reason he should take 10 steps backwards & try to grow with hps in a tent. Even back then he had the opportunity to use Horticultural leds but never got the chance. Liked his Auto-Cobs by BigSmo but did not like the original QB's. Everything he bitched about them then has still to be addressed & them being one of the most popular of course he has a bad taste in his mouth for led like you. Stop pouring Vinigar in there Homes.
He has the chance to kill it like never before because i will gladly guide him through the steps i had to learn the hard way. Assuring him success n beyond on his first run.
So YES, to answer your question, HPS IN GENERAL IS PHASING OUT. DE , Triple-Ended, CMH quadruple ended, its all going out the window soon enough bra. No Ballasts will make up for it. Only chance in Hell HPS has at making a comeback is if they made 2.2-2.4 umol/j DE-CMH using multiple, butted cmh 315's. Yes, i said DE-315'S. Only way to compete with the leds spread these days. Bars or strips anyways or low wattage boards.
Sure, use a Digi-DE ballast on a newer tech bulb. Ok so now you got what? 1.6/7 umol/j instead of 1.3 of a spectrum with all that wasted IR/HEAT & not enough blue.
DE Is 1.9 & still needs led or highly inefficient MH to ballance out the spectrum if shooting for enhanced led competitive nugwad.
All the while I'm pumping 2.6-2-8 , umol/j of a much better Spectrum, hitting 2gpw+ w/ only Adding yeilds to my space or g/sq'. Then the quality is unparalleled out here. So why in Gods name would i ever point EvilMoBo in the wrong direction? To satisfy your 1/2 close-minded approach? I love ya man but it is what it is. I see you constantly looking for any reason to out led even after we share private things/pics i tell/show no one else.
Dude, get off thinking about HLG, HGL, Next-Light Mega or Spectrum King. Get DE Out your head man. FOCUS your grow talent into utilizing a true Horticultural led system that will up the anti in a way you never imagined.
You dont wanna use Amare for some strange reason & get the huge discounts ill pass on then go pay big bucks for one that may be even better. Has x6 spectrums to choose from as well as geographical, live weather mimicking spectrums. No idea what they cost.
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This is the ONLY company i would consider buying over Amare just to see the build quality & use these spectrums. They don't even tell you the doides or drivers & recentky pulled they're SPD graphs. Copying is realer then ever nowadays in a time where most companies are just chasing electrical efficiency & beginning to realize their spectrums are deficient. Proprietary In-House i think.
To put the hard time & work into dialing the perfectly balanced spectrum between quality & quantity just to have some guess happy, customer derived HE spectrum company come & steal it is a huge kick in the nuts. And why Amare is not posting their spectrums yet like they used to. I disagree with this but also agree stealing hard earned spectrums is a shitty Ass thing to do & they all do it once the sbs,s come in or the customers feedback starts saying the "Spectrum Snob" light is what I want instead. But not until they waste a ton of money on supplemental trying to fix their white lights.
Could have just bought it to begin with if everyone wasnt hating so much & gave out better advice.
, Yeah, you knogw what that means OHD! LOL!