2.07 x 81% = 1.67
Perhaps you should add where you got that 81%...
Nothing more than debunked uninformed bullshit you are parroting from a user "Beta Test Team" who posted that in a thread at icmag about 7 weeks ago and is just a full of shit as you are. He clearly doesn't understand what he's reading, Petflora 3.0 (2.0 is for you).
I'm normally just joking when I use the word shill, but you are the real deal. All the blatant lies and HPS hating... what happened... someone stuck a DE bulb up your ass? Why do you deliberately spread false information that costs people money and possible a lot more than money alone....
I have no doubt the rest of your math is incorrect and inflated (a quick look at graphs from cree show at most 10lm per watt extra when running 500 instead of 800)...
You're tying together a few spots developed for streetlights, bill boards, roadsigns, shop displays... and pretend to understand horticulture lighting.... senile fungus gave me too much credit already when he tagged me but it's so easy and laughable to see what a bullshitter you are.
This thread should be renamed to Lies and Fairytales from LED shills and fanboys and rollie should add a forum for real horticulture lightning and make this a subforum for the micro/fluo/led grows... for the fire and healthy hazard diy kids to spread misinformation about HID lighting and inflate and hype LED.
COB lighting is just another cannabis forum hype. Professional horticulture lighting companies design their own lights and don't need to use COBs. COBs are LEDs for dummies, like the many unprofessional horticulture lighting companies who specifically target the cannabis grower. What better audience can you wish if you want to sell hype....
University of Utah considers Gavita fixtures the best. Thousands of growers who actually produce high quantities of high grade cannabis know they currently provide the best.
Can you out do that building your own LED lights... sure. Does it have a load of downside most growers will want to avoid, hell yes. As I've said before in these dumb discussions, I have nothing against LED, unlike you fanboys I don't involve emotions and don't derive self esteem from playing engineer or photo biologist. As most of us always agreed, LED is the future, at some point that future is now. If it were so great as the fanboys and shills claim here, why the hell do you need to spread such blatant lies about HID so desperately...
Gavita and popcorn and fluff and loss of terpenes... you're full of shit and clearly don't know what you are talking about.
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