I can only assume you offer crap if you have to slander gavita with nonsense like pretending gavitas need plasmas and the bullshit above.
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My friend Jorge asked me to jump in here to answer a few questions. Gavita has been active in the horticultural market as one of the market leaders for More than 30 years now. We developed and introduced the electronic ballast into the horticultural market in 2003. We also introduced Miro aluminum for reflectors, the 600W HPS lamp, metal ballast housings, the internal reflector lamp etc etc. Gavita Holland started in 2010 as a spin-off company to adapt the highly efficient professional concepts to the hobby market and to make new technology available there. Mostly the same people that equip 100,000 lamp greenhouse projects and professional climate rooms now share their professional experience in this market. So Gavita is not the average company that sources Chinese ballast and puts their own name on it, we have a long history in professional lighting development.
The Philips double ended lamps have been on the (professional) market for about 10 years now. During these years they optimized the lamp and electronic ballast that was developed for it. The ballast is already in its third generation, the last lamp improvement was about 2 years ago, changing to the "plus" type, outputting 2100 umol s-1. Philips is currently the market leader in HID lamps with a market share world wide of about 60%. Philips is by far market leader in the horticultural market in Europe where we do not grow a crop that offers you a ROI of 3 months of course, and efficiency is key to a profitable grow. So growers choose the most efficient systems on e market.
Three years ago we introduced this lamp to the hobby market, equipped with a ballast that was suitable for 240V instead of 400V. Until that time it was only available for 400V professional 3 phase systems. The combination of this lamp and the very efficient open reflector created a bit of a hype around this lamp and it has proved to be a great success. It was awarded the European Product Award, the HT stash Award etc. Breeders like DNA genetics, Greenhouse, Serious Seeds, Sannies Seeds and many others use or switched to Gavita systems. The reason? More light for your buck and better results.
There is not lamp on this market that has a higher output or efficiency. The light maintenance is better than 96% per year of use, which means that after a year of use it outputs still more light than any other new lamp in this market. In our light lab, where we have a calibrated Ulbricht sphere to our disposal (the ONLY way to test light output of a lamp!) we tested the most popular lamps on the market. The runner-up was Hortilux with less than 1800 umol, so about 15% less output using the same power. Together with the highly efficient HR96 reflector we offer (96% efficiency) that is up to 40 (!) % more light compared to an air cooled reflector. So it is not strange that growers report 15-50% more yield using the Gavita Pro 1000. ROI is a no-brainier of course.
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Not one of those dudes, DE doesn't require hyping, but, I can tell you it's commonly used by thousands of growers in 200-210cm high tents. 7 feet. I posted examples a week or two ago. They don't pull 1.7 though...
And I should say 'was' commonly used as they are no longer available in NL for cannabis growers. Gavita is so 2015... Dimlux is the hot shit... No pun intended.
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