That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don’t know, and what no one will tell you

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don't know, and what no one will tell you

Same here, even if the ballasts sound like the Family Feud buzzer!

In Springfield, they're now usually only on private properties! Because of the LED crusade of 2012.
(2013 for most other towns that got LED street lights in Vermont.)

-> Me thinks, are Rutland and Ludlow the only cities left in Vermont that still have the metal vapor lights for the majority???

Go over the border to New Hampshire, things are majorly different! It looks like heaven for metal vapor light lovers!

If you hate LEDs, New Hampshire will give you relief!

And apparently looking more friendly for jobs, too ATM...

[goontron]

Re: That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don't know, and what no one will tell you

i have a MH lamp outside my window and that thing is at the perfect angle to light up my valve radio collection. get all of them going at the same time at night and its so beautiful that a picture wouldn't do it justice!

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don't know, and what no one will tell you

I made this 150W MH "portable" thing with a parabolic reflector and ballast mounted on a base. A bit clunky, yet totally self contained.

Let's just say it kept me from "going mad" in this basement with abysmal lighting I was doing work in. I'd almost say it was pleasant because of such wonderful lighting.

We are like basil! LOL! The basil plants probably would droop with crap lighting...

Basil seems to heavily crave incandescent lights!

Perhaps we are like flowers too, LOL.

I hear that flowers bloom more with sodium vapor lights. I wouldn't be surprised if they would bloom more with a metal halide like yours...

I think I saw some fixtures of either type in a greenhouse.

[eccerr0r]

Re: That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don't know, and what no one will tell you

Kind of funny, normally I couldn't care less about color rendition index, but I noticed under certain lighting, reading resistor bands is quite hard...

Now I care!

[Elysarian]

Re: That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don't know, and what no one will tell you

We are like basil! LOL! The basil plants probably would droop with crap lighting...

Basil seems to heavily crave incandescent lights!

Perhaps we are like flowers too, LOL.

I hear that flowers bloom more with sodium vapor lights. I wouldn't be surprised if they would bloom more with a metal halide like yours...

I think I saw some fixtures of either type in a greenhouse.

metal halide lamps are used extensively in hydroponics set-ups, I know this partly due to the hardware pulled out of a marijuana farm in a warehouse unit my father in law was leasing out to some erm "eastern gents" (they claimed to be storing clothing there but a neighbour got suspicious of the fact that no vehicles ever visited the place for months)

[goontron]

Re: That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don't know, and what no one will tell you

metal halide lamps are used extensively in hydroponics set-ups, I know this partly due to the hardware pulled out of a marijuana farm in a warehouse unit my father in law was leasing out to some erm "eastern gents" (they claimed to be storing clothing there but a neighbour got suspicious of the fact that no vehicles ever visited the place for months)

and anybody in denver could tell you that too. especially me! i fix the newer digital ballasts and my friend mike the HVAC guy specialises in grow-ops.