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Hiya Scar! The gardens looking good with lots of happy plants in there. Thanks for the updates and keep up the great work brutha! Much appreciated. As to the Econolux, take a close look at their site, their 'research' and their products. This stuff is written by L. Michael Roberts who does...

Mr. P I can tell you that there has been a definite change in commercial growers attitudes towards energy efficient technologies. They are far more open to discussions than ever before. And beating a 600 watt HPS in yield has never been a challenge. Don't get discouraged G. It's still way...

What can happen with any electrodeless lamp is that there can be a bit of mercury oxidation where a small amount mercury seeps into the phosphor and won't revaporize. It's not ununsua; to see a bit of that as lamps age and it won't affect PPF output unless you see it occurring in over 25% of...

The site is back up and there is a LIKE button. Let's all share a spliff in honor of this momentous occasion. The only thing that could make it even better would be if someone were to tell me that Illumitex want's to do a full run side by side with any one of their lights vs a 420-Pontoon...

Apparently it's not that simple. Okay there is only one way to settle this. Send me an AT660 and I'll run the diagnostics. I promise I'll send it back when I'm done. Just kidding! For now I'll chalk it up as a mystery.

I'm not confusing the quantum meter with the kill-a-watt meter. The same uMole intensities were found regardless of whether or not the AT was fed with a 120 or a 240 volt circuit. The home depot meter will only read wattage on the 115 volt supply circuit. It is incapable of reading the...

Which confirms my point. You need to read both voltages/wattages off the same test equipment. Neither of these meters is going to be 'high end'. So with the light intensity being the same regardless of supply voltage than the only other thing that could account for the extra wattage draw (I...

A savings of 300 watts is not too sexy unless you're a commercial grower paying >0.25/kWhr. For that commercial grower converting to LED would not be worth the risk unless the bud was proven to be better under the LED, area coverage and weights were equal or greater than HID, thermal...

With a magnetic ballast there are up to 20% greater efficiencies when they run @ 240 volts but the digital ballasts should not be that far off. Digital ballasts have power factors of .95 and greater whereas magnetics can drop to a .8. For single phase supply circuits Amps x Volts = Watts...

I'm thinking one of the meters is off. If you take uMole readings under both voltages and they don't change (there should not be any change at all) that would prove the problem is with the meter and my guess is it is with the light controller reading. I'm only saying that because I've yet to...

I believe this was the strain found at the entrance of the Fortress of Solitude. From the Gods hands to Scar's garden. Sheet I'd be happy too!

Thanks for that referral but what I really need is a publicly available depiction of LED lights being installed in state licensed commercial cannabis cultivation centers, preferably above 10K sq ft as an alternative to HID. This is really for the SSL industry as a whole to come to grips with...

With the 420 in veg you can push a 5 x 5 area coverage with no problems. Therefore your 8 x 12 could get by with 4 lights. If this is where your also planning on flowering I would plan on having each light cover a 4 x 4 area and you'll want a total of 6 lights. If the budget is tight and you...

You hit the nail on the head. This is precisely why we need to see more of these commercial grows with LED's. If the larger projects adopt them the prices are going to come down as manufacturers gear up to produce them in greater numbers. Ultimately it should make the high end panels...

14 plants and all looking good brother Hy! Can't wait to see the flip.

Hiya Don and welcome. I have not done an AT or A51 run to compare the differences in plant response. Others on here such as GG has experience with both the IG and the AT so he would be best equipped to discuss those differences. I think GG is best equipped to discuss the differences he's...

What's shaping up in these legal states is that the utilities are giving the same incentives to the commercial cultivation centers that they do to any large sq footage/kWhr customers. If you can prove a watts/sq st savings that will translate into incentive $$ back into the growers pocket. In...

I had seen this video when it first came out about a year ago and thought it showed the technology well. The grower is obviously attuned to the benefits of growing with LED over HPS for commercial crop production but now that it's almost been a year, where have the follow up video's been? At...

I just finished phase one of a project in Canada where a licensed commercial cannabis grower put 3,700 lights in. They would have loved to had used a controlled environment greenhouse but the hurdle they face is security. A greenhouse does not meet the considerable security requirements that...

Good video BK! Exactly what I think the LED CannaAG industry needs to see. This video was shot in 2011 and in Colorado before the laws existed like we have now. Today there are hundreds if not thousands of licenses being issued for commercial cultivation and the time for making excuses is...