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    Default Sulphur plasma lighting

    Been wanting to see what one of these units can do to mary jane. A friend has been using them to veg houseplants & vegetables for like a year & keeps going on about how great they work and he lent me one to see how they work for flowering.
    I got it up & running today. 1000 watts with a little tiny bulb smaller than a golf ball that runs at 95% efficiency for about 5 years, the spectrum is closer to sunlight than any other light & it keeps intensity up for farther distance than HID (you can have plants farther away & still get all the benefits).
    I'll see if it lives up to the hype over the next couple months...
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    Wicked dude the people wanna know. Thanks again for sharing. Peace GS
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    Wow sounds awesome man let us know how it works out.
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    Now that's awesome, can't wait to read about your results. Is the equipment expensive or comparable to what we all use now?

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    I've been reading about these for years. Those are the first pic I've seen of the bulb over some plants.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_lamp

    Badass. Thanks, FTW.

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    The person who's wanted to know the most is me, my guy finally got tired of me asking him if he's flowered anything yet.

    They're still pretty pricey, wholesale about $1000 now.

    I've had a 1000w halide running in there keeping temps at 71-75 degrees with the ballast in another room. I just turned it back on to keep it warm enough in there, with the plasma light & ballast in the same room the temp was just at 67. Definitely runs cooler.

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    Awesome. Thanks for the info.

    This is exciting. I just searched Google and couldn't find anyone else flowering bud under one of these bulbs.

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    Cooler and full spectrum are both good, that I like, pricetag is a bit steep tho. I'd like to know about energy consumption vs the more standard options ie 1000W HPS / 1000W MH. Keep the pictures comming.
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    1000W of Sulphur =1000w of HPS/MH

    It's the output that we are interested in.

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    OK, d'oh, I'm baked, lol. Of course they are both using the same 1000W hahaha.

    Some things I've read online were suggesting that a 400W plasma emits as much light as a 1000W MH tho, so is a 1000W plasma emitting as many lumens as 2400W of MH? That would be super sweet....

    The only drawback I can see is the size of the thing.... Mounted on the ceiling it looks to take up almost 3 feet of clearance
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