You aren't very good at science are you? Heat is determined by wattage not the type of light....1000w of HPS will produce the same heat as 1000w of COBs. Read the first law of thermodynamics if you want to get some education.
The lack of knowledge in this section is real. Try not to drink too much of that koolaid .
I've seen so many posts you've made and you're a very sour little puss. I dont know jack shit about light spectrum, I dont know jack shit about loght efficiency amd yield, but i know electricity like the back of my freaking hand. You are WRONG. Wattage is not an even conversion to heat, especially when the intended output isn't heat. Not even talking about the IR heat from the spectrum itself or the best from the other spectrums of light, there is shitload of heat/electricity loss in your ballast itself. The hotter any circuit geys, the more electricity is actually being LOST as electrons escape the circuit in the form of heat energy, before they can be converted to light energy at the bulb. All this being said, common sense dictates that the cooler you can run the less electricity is wasted as ambient heat loss, the more efficient the electronic device is.
Now let's counter your claim that heat is derived solely from wattage and not from light type. An LED works by passing one electron at a time between contacts in an arc, hps/mh/cmh has to HEAT a filament to glow HOT enough to create the light you desire, complemented by various elements such as sodium to produce a specific spectrum. An arc of electricity does not need to ever get hot to create light, it works by allowing electrons to freely escape in the form of photons!
So, as you so incorrectly asserted, light type is far more a factor of heat generation than actual wattage ever will be.
I'll take a cooler running system that I can safely supplement over a setup that inherently by design itself has to create tons of heat to achieve light.
