TeaTreeOil
Well-Known Member
Sure, if you're supplying the ammo,I cant belive I am replying again on this post but here I am a full page of agruing later making yet another comment. Someone please shoot me!
I'm no expert. I have common sense.If you are going to price the cheapest of the CFLs for your agrument and do so by useing 312 watts as an example to scew the results so can try making BrickTop look bad then your sadly mistaken and not as smart as you think. Also your a CFL expert then you should know that CFL's even CFL's of the same wattage can have various differant lumen outputs.
No, not really. CFLs emit UV light and use phosphor coatings to shift it into visible light.A more fair compairson would be a compairison of a 400w hps bulbs replacement costs to a number of CFL's that is the near the same lumen output. If those cheap CFL's are producing 1725 lumen each you would need to buy 6 packages for $49.80 and you could buy 2 400w bulbs for that much which is still twice as cheap replacement wise. The higher the wattage CFL the higher the replacement costs as well so if you dont want to have upwards to 30 differant fixtures in your box you will be buying the more expensive CFL's and your replacement costs could be tripple or more the cost of an equilivant lumen output HPS bulb.
HID is quite the opposite. They emit heavy IR and use vapors and high pressure to shift the spectrum into a broader, and more visible light.
Higher wattage CFLs are less efficient. Good luck.
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