Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
Has anyone tried this? There's a company called Luxim showing at 'lightfair' in vegas.
It seems to be a pretty new technology, but wow, pretty compelling.
The coolest thing is that the lamp itself is a little bigger than a tic tac.
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Generating 73 lumens per watt represents a radical efficiency improvement of the Tesla series, reducing energy consumption of a standard 400 watt metal halide system by up to 50 percent. At today's power costs, this means an annual savings of approximately $145 per fixture.
The Tesla 400 fixture has a rated life of 50,000 hours, and a color temperature of 5500 CCT (very close to natural sunlight), and a full spectrum CRI of 80, supporting excellent quality of light performance.
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Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
Here's how big the 400w MH bulb is.
Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
that looks pretty promising.... it looks like cooling the bulb down wouldnt be much of a problem.
Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
Damn you; now I have a lot more research to do in a field I know
very little about
Daddy
Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
These lights are going to be nuts!
YouTube - Proto plasma growlight @ High Times cup 2009
That video says it all. They are full spectrum bit give out 6000K and i read they are currently developing the red spectrum Version !! cant wait
Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
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Originally Posted by Daddynobucks
Damn you; now I have a lot more research to do in a field I know
very little about
Daddy
LOL, I thought the same thing.
The site has a couple of pretty cool vids, plus available products.
Light Emitting Plasma by LUXIM Corporation
Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
Played with them when they were first in development. Cooling them is not the problem, it's the ballast driving the bulb that gets really hot and fails. The bulb itself will last a long time as it's based on induction and not electrodes, but the driving ballast has issues.
They're meant more for visual applications and not horticultural applications.
Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
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Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
Played with them when they were first in development. Cooling them is not the problem, it's the ballast driving the bulb that gets really hot and fails. The bulb itself will last a long time as it's based on induction and not electrodes, but the driving ballast has issues.
They're meant more for visual applications and not horticultural applications.
so is the ballast too powerful for the bulb? explain further please. and do you see advancment opportunities with this tech.
Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
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Originally Posted by MEDEDCANNABIS
so is the ballast too powerful for the bulb? explain further please. and do you see advancment opportunities with this tech.
No, the ballast just gets too hot due to the all in one design. This wouldn't be an issue if this had a remote ballast, but trying to cool the entire unit as a whole is pretty hard, especially given their design. As for advancement, the induction lamp is an old technology, just like the LED, and is constantly improving. I see potential for advancement, but there are many things that need to be overcome before it becomes viable at higher powers.
Light Emitting Plasma ?!?
thanks khyber,
ill be watching this with interest. led's had me for a minute but the the cost effectiveness was not interesting. not to mention from what i have heard they are less effective in flower. always learning though.
meded is a hell of a drug...chapelle