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Rickeezee · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject:

Right got is sussed, Tri means made up of just three primary colours hence nice bright light and also they are very cost effective in terms of energy consumption.

This site explains it all!

http://www.richartco.com/Articles/Fluorescent.pdf
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master pt · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject:

For best light, there is only HQI=metal halide lamps, they come in 70W and up.

Some specs on a 150w HQI lamp that i have running is:

Lumens 11 000
Color 5500 K naturally sunlight is 6000K
Hours 10 000 before you will notice any changes in color and brightness
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Rickeezee · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:

Even better cheers! Do they chuck out a lot of heat?Do they give out any uv?
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master pt · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

they do give some heat and there is HQI that have UV-stop built in and others that permits UV-light, 2:nd best is HQL lamps=quicksilver.

http://www.gelighting.com/EULCTLG/Dispatcher?
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Rickeezee · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject:

Good man cheers! Very Happy

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