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Old 07-20-2002, 07:55 PM   #57
JoseHempSeed
 
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hey choader,,,yes, you are definitely on the right track there. there is another thing you need to consider: how much of your lamp's light actually reaches your garden. you will be surprised how many of those precious lumens are wasted!

for example, let's assume you have a white-painted reflector - then about half of the lamp's light is reflected, so out of that reflected half you really only get about 60% - the rest is lost in the reflector!

now, to make things even worse, a lot of the lamp's lumens never even get to you plants. they're lost off to the sides, and again, wasted.

i did some tests a while back you might be interested in. There's a chart here .

plus there's another thread you might be interested in where we're discussing a lot of this here .
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