An Excellent
Low Cost Grow Light!
Unused 175 watt
High Pressure
Metal Halide, a Grow
light system specifically manufactured and
optimized for indoor use. It uses a
TOP NOTCH
ballast.
The
Concentrating optics delivers
higher light
levels
on target with
less
electricity. This
reflector fixture gives you the power of a
spotlight to concentrate enough light on
your plants using just a break through
technology 175 w High Pressure Metal Halide
bulb.
This is a
No Compromise Balanced White Light System.
What if you want to grow
and enjoy plants indoors? Until now, most
people used orange HPS bulbs that are seen
in street lights. Who wants to look at
plants under that icky orange light?
Old fashion metal halide
fixtures make a suitable white light, but
their light output is low. Orange colored
High Pressure Sodium is often used instead
because it has higher light energy output
needed for flowering. But it's not the best
light for growing leaves.
Now you don’t have to
choose! Ultra
Efficient High Pressure Metal Halide offers
the best of both worlds - high light quality
and high light output.
Here's a handy comparison
chart. (Watts include
ballast consumption)
Source
Initial lms Median lms Watts
High Pressure 175 MH
17500 14000 185
Standard 175 MH
14000 9100 210
HPS
150 15800
13800 170
This is an
excellent all around fixture:
Plugs into
a standard household outlet!
PERFECT FOR SMALLER GARDENS.GREAT
FOR ORCHID GROWING!
Excellent
choice for SEED STARTING!
Over Winter Plants!
Make’s a
Great Work Light in the Off Season!
Remote
Ballast, Fixture Head Hangs by Bail!
Features:
Balanced White Light
for Growth
and
Flowering!
Powerful
Output Gives
MORE GROWTH!
It’s 3.54
times brighter than a 4’ two bulb shoplight!!
Good for starting
and
Full scale
production! Don’t be fooled by the over
ratings given to compact fluorescents. This
fixture is exactly 8.33 times brighter than
a 30 watt compact fluorescent.
(Unfortunately these 30 watt
bulbs are often hyped as 150 watt bulbs. )
Low
Electric Bill Saves your
CASH$$
We make these with a
special low heat loss linear reactor ballast
that saves you about 25 watts over a
standard 175 w metal halide system. Over the
life of the bulb, it adds up to a
$30
light bill
savings.
(e=$.08/Kwhr, 15 Khr
lamp life)
Remote
Ballast for Maximum Product Life!
Heat kills ballasts! The
ballast & igniter is what starts and
operates a HPS bulb. Rather than cram a
ballast in a little box with a hot burning
lamp, we separate the awkward electric
components in a remote ballast enclosure.
Cheap Long
Lasting Bulbs
You’ll save time and money
on light bulbs too! These 150 watt HPS lamps
have a rated life of 15,000 hours - 50%
longer than ordinary metal halide. This
is much better than those overpriced compact
fluorescents that only last 8 to 10,000
hours
Easy to
use and Store
The lite weight fixture
head is easy to position, while the heavy
bulky ballast enclosure sits on the ground.
The fixture cord nicely wraps around a nice
set of plated ears.
Our
Concentrating Optics are Good
The light off of a 175
watt bulb is bright enough for starting, but
not intense enough for growing if you don’t
concentrate the light.
Look at the grow
"lights" that are being cobbled together
and sold here. Most of them have open ends.
Light flys out the ends and hits your walls.
Do you want to light up your room or do you
need to feed your plants with light?
Very little
consideration seems to be given to how light
ricochets off of a reflector and out the
ends either and on your walls. What a waste!
Other guys put a reflector
in a box. This is an improvement, but light
still 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.
On the other hand, spun
reflectors, like the one this fixture uses,
are not perfect. But they deliver about 76%
of the light from the arc. And they are able
to concentrate the light straight down on
your plants.
All New
Electricals
All this is new:
(1) Low Heat Linear 175
watt HP Metal Halide ballast
(It uses 25 watts less 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. The high temperature igniter (105
C) is the big bottle type, not the little
bolt on type that can cause problems. This
is the most reliable 150 watt ballast we’ve
ever used!
(2) 175 w
High Pressure Metal
Halide medium base bulb
(3) Heavy Gauge Power Cord
(4) Remote fixture head
with ceramic socket and cord set. The
fixture head has been improved and is even
shinier than shown.
(5) Plated cord storage
ears
The only thing that is not
brand spanking new 1st quality is
the ballast case. They were blemished when
we got them. But we repainted them to save
you
$$$.
Glass is
Usually Bad
Sometimes you’ll see lights with glass
lens. Glass actually hinders optical
performance. You can see yourself in a glass
pane because glass reflects back about 10%
of the light that strikes it head on. (It’s
snell’s law from basic physics) But suppose
the light does not hit the glass head on. If
it hit’s the glass at more than a 50 degree
angle, much of the light is actually
absorbed by the glass or reflected. And most
of those rectangular box lights you see have
so poorly shaped reflectors that can’t
direct light straight down. And what happens
with this absorbed light? Well, it’s
converted into heat.
Why pay extra for less light? I’ll offer
extra friendly advice on the heat issue. The
Lord designed plants for sunlight. And
natural sunlight is 50 to 100 times more
intense than this light fixture. Do plants
suffer for it? NO! Heat energy is actually
beneficial. It’s used with light to create
sugar. It’s the other half of the
photosynthesis reaction. That’s why when we
grow corn, we pay close attention to plant
degree days. Plants like it hot! On a hot
day’s , you can almost hear the corn grow!
Only when you’re growing stuff in
unventilated spaces is heat ever an issue.
The only way the use of glass can make sense
is in completely sealed and power vented
fixtures.
