HydrOGdeluxe
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Not as useless as black wall tests, which are more like a situation with reflective walls and no overlapping lights in a large space. It's just unrealistic to compare to mediocre hps setups. I know many growers with large rooms and have no doubt they realize too comparing hps to led using black walls is almost childish. It would result in a large difference between hps hoods with a narrow beam and something wider already. One of my favorite growers uses gavita-ePapilon-gavita. The epap has a much wider footprint. Comparing the two with black walls and concluding one is better than the other would just be wrong.A lot of growers with larger rooms don't have a reflective wall right up against the fixture so tent #'s are useless in that situation.
The sphere is used to exclude variable, you can't do that simply by using black walls. All that is left is to test realistic situations.