Make the jump to double ended bulbs and don't look back. I've been flowering nonstop for 30 months under my gavitas and still pulling 2+ per light with them set to 750 watts.
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To hortilux or not to hortilux
- Thread starter Floridian
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I would buy a new one, i always have a back up of almost every thing, pumps, bulbs etc etc.
point is, i bet if you put the new one in next to the 4yrs old bulb you would see a big difference. you don't notice the bulb dimming with age unless it's next to a new one.
but I'll bet the new bulb smokes the 4yr old bulb
if not you have a back up and and I'll damn sure will be buying ushio
Ditto. Last big shop I worked at had hid lighting. When a bulb was replaced because the old one blew it stood out as the brightest. By shop it was a heavy equp. garage 200x200 16 hid lights.
with the average cost of a reg replacement bulb @$75
and say 2Xs a year you replace...
you can pay for that gavita setup in another 6months tree....
I really inches away from biting the bullet and getting some.
I like hortiluxes but I tend to burn them longer than cheaper HPS bulbs..
My friend had a lamp(lumens) tester and 1 year old hortilux tested higher than a new philips... we ran em 2 years after that, but in a rough spell I when 3+ years and noticed when they get old they turn on and off... some takes a year others up to 4. No noticable yeild drop off for me. still 1.6-2 steady.
