Well after running benies last winter I'm sure they did help with over all performance but hard to quantify without me doing a side by. At the end of the run I had a4-5" thick mat 3x3 that was pure white so I can only assume it works. I'm giving the individual pot thing a lot of thought and it may help stay within the new count laws, but nope doubt that lol, pretty much a given that I'll never be able to do that given it's a bunch of fuck heads coming up with these laws that won't accomplish anything but cater to the weekend pot smokers which I'm not lol.