TheTimeKeeper
Well-Known Member
Hey S&C,
The guys over at growlite have done a number of tests with this hood (check out the vids over at youtube), and apparently it blows every other decent horizontal hood out of the water! Even this hood with a 600w globe was performing better than some of the other popular horizontal hoods they tested with 1000w globes. The main reason I'm considering the hood is the apparent very even light spread, on top of that, as there are no major 'hot spots' like in a horizontal setup, it would not be necessary to use the glass, again improving the light getting to the canopy. I've done alot of research into lights and vertical light is said to have much better penetration, and that there's nothing wrong with well reflected light. From what i've been able to dig up, vertical is the way to go given a very good reflector - which this appears to be... the growlite literature on this hood is very convincing! Sadly, it looks like this hood is just that little bit to big in terms of vertical space I have in my cabinet... I'm trying to find out if I can get a good light spread with it approx 12" above the canopy.. as that's all the space I've got, but min height may need to be more...
The guys over at growlite have done a number of tests with this hood (check out the vids over at youtube), and apparently it blows every other decent horizontal hood out of the water! Even this hood with a 600w globe was performing better than some of the other popular horizontal hoods they tested with 1000w globes. The main reason I'm considering the hood is the apparent very even light spread, on top of that, as there are no major 'hot spots' like in a horizontal setup, it would not be necessary to use the glass, again improving the light getting to the canopy. I've done alot of research into lights and vertical light is said to have much better penetration, and that there's nothing wrong with well reflected light. From what i've been able to dig up, vertical is the way to go given a very good reflector - which this appears to be... the growlite literature on this hood is very convincing! Sadly, it looks like this hood is just that little bit to big in terms of vertical space I have in my cabinet... I'm trying to find out if I can get a good light spread with it approx 12" above the canopy.. as that's all the space I've got, but min height may need to be more...