Quote Originally Posted by salmayo
Ooops! Forget that, I just reread your post and I obviously forgot you were using Red Inc.'s to. I'm leaving this Ooops math up there though, since it's a nice 660nm example and who knows how many more I'll get in.

So doing right for you, using mothers approximation of a Time Factor of 2. Right now you got 4/2 = 2 hours equivalent AD, plus 10 hours actual SID, giving you 12 hours total equivalent SID, which is right on target,

BUT you do loose about a quarter to a half hour of photoeqalibrium change over time for the phytochrome to get to it's SID operating level. In other words it takes a little time going from a Time Factor of 2 to a Time Factor of 1.

You can make this up by adding a quarter hour to a half hour of SID, or by adding a half hour to a hour of AD to the schedule. In other words trading a little more SID or AD for HPS time
Ok the next batch will be 10 hours hps and 5 hours AD. The batch my uncle is working on now is being done in 12/12 SID. They will be done in about 3 1/2weeks. In the mean time I'm going to work on getting different INC's combos for the next round. "Time to step it up a notch"

Sal... In our 5 hours of AD I want to get different colored INC's into the mix..Black,Red,Yellow,Orange,Clear. I think I read on one of your TY post you were talking about black lights for the first 1/2 hour to 1 hour of AD. How do you still feel about that? Has it changed to clear INC's. I'm thinking we need more then red INC's only during the AD. So with your guidance I would like to introduce a different mix of INC's this next time. Black or clear for the first hour then red, orange, yellow INC's for 4 hours then 9 hours SID.

guidance please...:thumbsup: