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(1) DOUBLE BATWING REFLECTOR that delivers more of the light you're paying for.

(4) Blemished ballast enclosure that we've repainted to save you $$$.

Don’t want both bulbs? The price is $125.99 with just the metal halide conversion bulb and $112.99 with just a high pressure sodium bulb? (You invoice will be adjusted accordingly)

When you need Dual Spectrums (HPS/MH):

HPS bulbs usually make more light energy than metal halide (MH) lamps. However, the orange HPS (identical to street light) spectrum is defective so that it produces unnatural lankey growth. On the otherhand, natural white light metal halides produce lush compact growth with lots of leaves. So a good strategy is to start under metal halide until the plant is nearly fully grown. Then you switch to the higher light energy HPS bulb for budding, flowering, and fruiting.

 HOW Does this light Compare to Others on EBAY?

(a) Better (1.5 Power) Reflector

This is an economy four sided version of our SUPER OUTPUT Series Reflector. (see Ray diagrams) This economy version reflector is head and shoulders above the competitor’s batwing designs. In single fixture layouts, this fixture supplies about 50% more than open ended batwings. Remember:More Light = More Growth. Also: More Usable Light per fixture = Fewer and/or Lower wattage fixtures required = Electrical Savings.

Here’s the critical and costly error that others make: They act like light only comes off the side of a bulb. Light actually comes off of each portion of a light bulb in random 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. That’s why we’ve built our large, multi-faceted hoods that 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 flies right out the open ends over the plants. What a waste! Are you trying to light up your plants or the wall? If you want to grow plants, use our reflectors, not crummy open ended ones.

 (b) A Tortoise 400 w bulb that beats the Jack Rabbit 430 w bulb.

Some companies may try to sell you 430 watt bulbs that they call high output 400 watt bulbs. They might be bright at first, but they don’t hold up on light production. Manufactures data clearly show that at 6,400 hours (which is only 27% of the claimed bulb life) a Jack Rabbit 430 w bulb makes only 47,770 lms of light. Our Tortoise 400 w bulb is making 48,000 lms then. -- But it’s using ~30 less watts to do it! Over the long haul, we give you More Light for Less Money.

Even when the Jack Rabbit bulb is at full brightness, it is no more energy efficient than the Tortoise bulb.

(c) A horizontal burn conversion lamp Warning:Not all conversion lamps are the same. 3 out of 4 are made to be burned in the vertical position with the Base Up to within 15 degrees! Be careful, we’ve seen vertical lamps burn out in less than two months if used horizontal. The included conversion bulb works in any position.

2 A  Real 2 year Manufacture’s Warranty. Since the ballast is new, it is warranted by the US manufacturer.

We are not taking used, scraped lights out of a factory, cleaning them and calling them “refurbished” and reusing the ballasts. If by chance, something is wrong with a ballast component, you get a new replacement. You won’t get another used piece of junk that should have went for scrap. We know this is true, because people are coming to us for repair parts.

3. Our Fixture has a better ballast Featuring:

(1)Low Heat S51 400 watt HPS Core (uses 5 watts less energy than competitive ballasts to produce same output) 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.

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

(3) Dry High Temperature Capacitor (100 C)  (It is not oil filled so it can't leak. The capcitor is a very large 1.75" by 4.87", so it can easility dissipate heat. There are chap mini-capacitors that may be called "high temperature", but they are so small that they acutally head up enough to exceed their ratings. Tricky offshore manufacturers often take two small capacitors and put them in a case. Not so here, the capacitor is solid all the way through.

4. It is Sealed for Your protection

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.