hps bulbs

[jake]

Been looking for a decent bulb for indoor growing iv heard about sunmaster but found another breed with 55,509 lumens of output with a colour temperature of 2093 kelvens and a colour rendering of 30 sound good or stick to sunmaster does anyone know anything about bulbs cheers

[bufo marinus]

Can't help with the sunmaster but GE Lucagrow are popular at the moment the hydro dude tells me. Good output over the life of the lamp, as well as supposedly 20% more light somehow? Have seen them cheap online

[loylty gets u nothing]

ive always used the GE lucagrow

but im trialing a phillips 600w hps bulb

how much is this unnamed bulb mate??

bil

[Stoney]

once again you wont get that many reply's by starting this thread in politics and religion

 

thread has been moved

 

and i only use either son t's or lucagrows

 

cheerz :Dj:

[Taipan]

There are plenty of newer import lamps around that have all sorts of claims. If it is a cheap lamp or the brand is unknown I'd stay away from it. You can't go wrong with a GE Lucagrow or Philips Son T Agro. The Sunmaster HPS are OK too, but I still prefer the other 2.

 

A bit more trivia, Sunmaster lamps are basically repackaged lamps from Venture Lighting. Venture lamps were used in the very early days of indoor growing and were always a cheap choice. As far as I'm concerned, their launch of the sunmaster brand was just another "marketing ploy". Lots of people went for the pretty coloured boxes with "horticulture" written all over them, but apart from the newer warm MH lamps, the rest are just repacked standard Venture lighting lamps. Nothing wrong with them, but they are nothing special. GE and Philips are much more reputable and put a lot more R&D into their products.

Edited January 4, 2007 by Taipan