600 watt HPS FULL HOOD GROW LIGHT <> 400 1000 w MH opt

  

 
SUPER OUTPUT GROW LIGHT

600 watt HPS (High Pressure Sodium) 

BIGGER IS BETTER

A Giant 3’ Reflector w/Six Wings delivers More Light for Higher Growth

This next generation reflector clearly out classes the light wasting batwings!

Our 600 watt bulbs & Super Output Reflector:

(1) Are desired for high energy plants and yield higher production.

(2) Helps keep your electric bill low

(3) Produces more growth for less money

(4) Is Best for long narrow grow spaces

Looking for a Switchable Unit? Add a 1000 w Metal Halide Ballast and Bulb For only $110 extra!

Metal halide conversion bulbs are not as bright as the HPS bulbs they replace. What if you want nice white light for the early growth phases but don’t want to sacrifice light output? The 1000 metal halide makes light output comparable to a 600 w HPS, but the light is white!

Besides the 600 watt conversion bulb has always been a high priced bulb. Rather than stick you with a system that eats big buck conversion bulbs, we are discounting a second 1000 watt Metal Halide ballast and bulb for only $110 extra. (Available when you check out) You could even make a second grow light out of it! Now that the major manufacture discontinued it’s 600 watt conversion bulb, the supply of private label 600 watt conversion bulbs may well dry up. Save in the future with our fixtures.

VIRGIN Light:Don‘t get stuck with a "refurbished" light that's been junked once before! Why buy something that costs more to fix than what you paid?

 It Features:

Giant 3’ Reflector just for Indoor Use.  It measures 3 feet long! This is the secret: The larger reflector, the easier it is to capture light that would be wasted lighting up your ceilings and walls , and redirect this otherwise wasted light down on your plants. The reflector has 4 extra wings to capture and redirect the light shed off the ends of the light bulb. It offers extraordinary high optical efficiency.

Compare this to the “batwing” or “shoebox” lights that some people hawk and you will see that this reflector gives you usually 50% or more light for the money:

Don't get stuck with something that you'll have to fix later!

We are not taking used, scraped lights out of a factory, cleaning them and calling them “refurbished”. You are getting a brand new fixture which includes:

GIANT REFLECTOR: 3 Foot Long! The reflector is made of lighting grade anodized high reflectivity aluminum - not a laminated product that can peal. Total reflectivity is 95%. It is so shiny that you can see your reflection, just like a mirror. This is what the real lighting grade specular aluminum looks like. Others just use dull sheet aluminum. Be careful: without treatment, aluminum is not very reflective- as low as 30%.

Two 600 w HPS Bulbs!That way you'll have a spare bulb!

New Ballast, Igniter, Capacitor. All three electrical components are new, not half worn out.

Quality Capacitor A quality high temperature dry capacitor is used, not an oil filled one that can leak.

The capacitor is very large 1.75" by 4.87" so it can easily dissipate heat. There are cheap mini-capacitors that maybe called "high temperature", but because they are so small, they actually heat up enough to exceed their ratings. Tricky offshore manufactures often take two such small capacitors and put them in a big  case. Not so here, this is a solid capacitor all the way through.

Better Ballast The  Low Heat S51 400 watt HPS Core (uses 5 watts less energy than competitive ballasts) This ballast’s laminations are vacuum impregnated with insulation to optimize cooling and generate about lowest sound rating in the industry. Cheaper cores are just slopped full of orange varnish that’s prone to have air bubbles.

Reliable Igniter High Temperature (105 C)  igniter is the big bottle type, not the little bolt on type that can cause problems.

New Socket. Not something used pulled out of the scrap heap. So the socket is sure to be good.

Remote Mounting Hardware. The giant reflector hangs from chain bails. An approximate 10’ power supply cord connects the ballast enclosure to the reflector.There are two reasons to use a remotely mounted ballast: (1) It’s easier to hang a lightweight reflector . (2) The heat of the lamp is kept away from the ballast and capacitor. The ballast enclosure and reflector can be stored separately. Reusable quick connectors make disassembly a snap.

New Die Cast Aluminum Electrical Enclosure

The aluminum enclosure is a massive heat sink with cooling fins. It is designed to wick heat out of the ballast. There is a ventilation shaft to exhaust warm air. Again it has factory new finish. So the fixture you’ll get will be nice, just like it is in the picture. We don’t cheapen the product by using the more common sheet metal enclosures. that leave the ballast exterior exposed.

Prewired 120 volt Power Cord. Cord length is approximately 6’. This can be rewired for 208, 240, or 277 volt. The power cord to the lamp is approximately 10'.

Quality Workmanship. There are no sharp edges to cut your self on. The edges are neatly folded over. The reflector does come with a protective quick release film. Stiff structural aluminum is used to support the hangers and socket. Two chain bails are provided to hang the reflector by. The ballast is not Chinese. 

We didn't just slap a light bulb under a sheet of corrugated aluminum. With pencil and paper, we figured out how light actually bounces to construct the best reflector for you. Sure, it's more work and takes craftsmanship to build. But the result is an unusually strong, lightweight optics that does not trap light like a shoebox light, or waste it like a batwing.

Compare this to the “batwing” or “shoebox” lights that some people hawk and you will see that this reflector gives you usually 50% or more light for the money:

Batwings are for Bats!, not Plants

Look at the grow "lights" that are being cobbled together and sold here. Most of them have open ends. Light flies out the ends of these “batwings”
and hits your walls. What a waste! Do you want to light up your room or do you need to feed your plants with light?

Here’s the critical and costly error that others make: They act like light only comes off the side of a bulb at nearly 90 degree angles. Light actually comes off of each portion of a light bulb in all possible directions. The truth is our competitors have really blown it. They need to think in 3 dimensions. The electric arc inside of an HPS or Metal Halide lamp emits light in all possible directions as shown in the picture That’s why we’ve built our large, multi-faceted hoods to fully enclose the bulb. It’s what required to fully capture and redirect light down on your plants. Low end fixtures are made by just bending corrugated aluminum in a hump. Light will fly right out the open ends over the tops of the plants. Or the light ricochets off of a batwing reflector and out the open ends and onto your walls. What a waste! Are you trying to light up your plants or the wall? If you want to grow plants, use this reflectors, not crummy open ended ones.

Shoeboxs are for Shoes!

Other common grow lights have a hood, but not a large complete multi-sided reflector like ours has. You can’t throw a light bulb in a little box and hope that much light will get out. If you put a reflector with open ends in a the box, light gets trapped in internal reflections, bouncing back and forth between the ends of the box or the ends and the reflector or the reflector with it's self. The optical efficiency of these "shoe box" lights is so poor that hardly anyone in the lighting industry publishes the numbers. Typically only 40 to 60% of the light generated by the arc gets out of the fixture. You are simply not getting the light you are paying for. That's why we designed our reflectors with flared end walls. Light strikes the end walls and quickly reflects out without being trapped.

When to use a 600 watt system:

The problem with 400 watt HPS grow lights is that it’s difficult to achieve the recommended 2000 to 3000+ footcandles to get robust growth of subtropical plants. It takes a lot of light to compete with the Sun. That’s where the 600 watt HPS comes in. This horticultural grade 600 watt bulb combined with our super output high efficiency reflector can really pound out the light. So you can get more production out of a smaller surface area.

Higher wattage HPS bulbs are more energy efficient too. A 600 watt bulb makes 80% more light than a 400 watt HPS bulb, but it’s only using 50% more energy to do it. Growth rates are roughly proportional to light level. (Twice the light gives about Twice the growth)

So this means you can get higher yield with fewer kilowatt hours.

Six hundred watt HPS systems have practically the same energy efficiency (lumens of light per watt consumed) as the 1000 watt HPS systems. We currently offer this 600 watt system with the same giant full size hood as our famous 1000 watt Super Output system. So the fixture costs are close to the same. So, if given a choice I‘d buy a 1000 watt system instead, particularly if you are using it in a green house. The best applications for 600 watt units are single fixture set ups where you desire more light than what a 400 watt generates or if you have long rectangular grow areas. In a rectangular space, two 600 watt fixtures can give you more even illumination than a single 1000 watt fixture.

You wouldn’t buy used spark plugs, would you?…. So why buy a discarded light fixture that someone “refurbished” into a grow light?

 

Light fixtures don’t last forever. Eventually the ballasts blow out. That’s why we use all new ballasts, lamps, and electricals of the highest quality. Yet some guys, looking for the quick buck, buy up discarded industriallight fixtures and convert them into grow lights-- calling them “refurbished”.

In general, you are looking for trouble if you buy a grow light made from discarded HPS fixture. The high voltage pulsing created when starting HPS lamps is very hard on the ballasts, especially since industrial lights are most often used in hot high ceilings.

Consider where these discarded light fixtures come from. As ballasts fail, its reaches a point where it’s cheaper to buy all new light fixtures than fix the old. As many customers complain, it’s often cheaper to buy a whole new light fixture than buy a replacement ballast. It is simply not cost effective to hire high priced electrical contractors or rent lifts to maintain fixtures.

Savvy building owners often evade waste disposal regulations by dumping their old light fixtures for cheap rather than recycle them. So there is a ready supply of nearly burned out light fixtures available for you to buy as “refurbished” grow lights.

Reused HPS fixtures are especially troublesome because they are so old. HPS was a very common industrial light source about 15 years ago. It’s very efficient but makes an orange light. Eventually people have recognized that you just can’t see as good and concentrate as well under orange light as you can under white light. And very high energy efficiency white light sources were developed. So around these parts, factories stopped installing these lights about 10 years ago. To me it seems likely that if you buy a refurbished (reused) HPS grow light, you are likely getting something that has had at least a decade of hard industrial use.

Shipping to AK & HI is higher.  Please specify if your address is residential or commercial for shipping purposes. This fixture normally ships in two cartons because of its size. If you buy more than one we can nest reflectors so that your shipping costs will be much less.  We have improved the ballast enclosure with  heavier gauge wire and a mounting  pedestal. The shown ballast is the lighter 400 watt.