Quote Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
Of course, this DOES mean that your (hate using this term) grams per watt jumps up! Also, this means your grams per kilowatt-hour goes up as well! Either way, this does mean a performance increase, but it's still dishonest advertising.
Sure it induces some mathematical changes in your calculations and predictions. It also hurts the image of LED technology; folks will buy a 120watt and wonder why it works poorly while unbeknownst to them it is really 70 watts of LED light not 120... The primary affect of their trickery is the bottom line: higher hardware costs per watt. Including more lights needed to reach the required watts, including additional power bars, extension cords, timers, etc... needed when adding additional lights.

Sure as shit adds up fast! Can easily require another $150 in electrical setup on top of additional lights. This is about $750 hardware cost to me total to get the watts up...