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An Excellent Low Cost Grow Light! Unused 175 watt High Pressure Metal Halide, a Grow light system specifically manufactured and optimized for indoor use. It uses a TOP NOTCH ballast. The Concentrating optics delivers higher light levels on target with less electricity. This reflector fixture gives you the power of a spotlight to concentrate enough light on your plants using just a break through technology 175 w High Pressure Metal Halide bulb. This is a No Compromise Balanced White Light System. What if you want to grow and enjoy plants indoors? Until now, most people used orange HPS bulbs that are seen in street lights. Who wants to look at plants under that icky orange light? Old fashioned metal halide fixtures make a suitable white light, but their light output is low. Orange colored High Pressure Sodium is often used instead because it has higher light energy output needed for flowering. But it's not the best light for growing leaves. Now you don’t have to choose! Ultra Efficient High Pressure Metal Halide offers the best of both worlds - high light quality and high light output. Here's a handy comparison chart. (Watts include ballast consumption) Source Initial lms Median lms Watts High Pressure 175 MH 17500 14000 185 Standard 175 MH 14000 9100 210 HPS 150 15800 13800 170 This is an excellent all around fixture: Plugs into a standard household outlet! PERFECT FOR SMALLER GARDENS.GREAT FOR ORCHID GROWING! Excellent choice for SEED STARTING! Over Winter Plants! Make’s a Great Work Light in the Off Season! Remote Ballast, Fixture Head Hangs by Bail! Features: Balanced White Light for Growth and Flowering! Powerful Output Gives MORE GROWTH! It’s 3.54 times brighter than a 4’ two bulb shoplight!! Good for starting and Full scale production! Don’t be fooled by the over ratings given to compact fluorescents. This fixture is exactly 8.33 times brighter than a 30 watt compact fluorescent. (Unfortunately these 30 watt bulbs are often hyped as 150 watt bulbs. ) Low Electric Bill Saves your CASH$$ We offer these with a special low heat loss linear reactor ballast that saves you about 25 watts over a standard 175 w metal halide system. Over the life of the bulb, it adds up to a $30 light bill savings. (e=$.08/Kwhr, 15 Khr lamp life) Remote Ballast for Maximum Product Life! Heat kills ballasts! The ballast & igniter is what starts and operates a HPS bulb. Rather than cram a ballast in a little box with a hot burning lamp, we separate the awkward electric components in a remote ballast enclosure. Cheap Long Lasting Bulbs You’ll save time and money on light bulbs too! These 150 watt HPS lamps have a rated life of 15,000 hours - 50% longer than ordinary metal halide. This is much better than those overpriced compact fluorescents that only last 8 to 10,000 hours. Easy to use and Store The light weight fixture head is easy to position, while the heavy bulky ballast enclosure sits on the ground. The fixture cord nicely wraps around a nice set of plated ears. Our Concentrating Optics are Good The light off of a 175 watt bulb is bright enough for starting, but not intense enough for growing if you don’t concentrate the light. Look at the grow "lights" that are being cobbled together and sold here. Most of them have open ends. Light flies out the ends and hits your walls. Do you want to light up your room or do you need to feed your plants with light? Very little consideration seems to be given to how light ricochets off of a reflector and out the ends either and on your walls. What a waste! Other guys put a reflector in a box. This is an improvement, but light still gets trapped in internal reflections, bouncing back and forth between the ends of the box or the ends and the reflector or the reflector with it's self. The optical efficiency of these "shoe box" lights is so poor that hardly anyone in the lighting industry publishes the numbers. Typically only 40 to 60% of the light generated by the arc gets out of the fixture. You are simply not getting the light you are paying for. On the other hand, spun reflectors, like the one this fixture uses, are not perfect. But they deliver about 76% of the light from the arc. And they are able to concentrate the light straight down on your plants. All New Electricals All this is new: (1) Low Heat Linear 175 watt HP Metal Halide ballast (It uses 25 watts less than competitive ballasts . This ballast’s laminations are vacuum impregnated with insulation to optimize cooling and generate about lowest sound rating in the industry. Cheaper cores are just slopped full of orange varnish that’s prone to have air bubbles. The high temperature igniter (105 C) is the big bottle type, not the little bolt on type that can cause problems. This is the most reliable 150 watt ballast we’ve ever used! (2) 175 w High Pressure Metal Halide medium base bulb (3) Heavy Gauge Power Cord (4) Remote fixture head with ceramic socket and cord set. The fixture head has been improved and is even shinier than shown. (5) Plated cord storage ears The only thing that is not brand spanking new 1st quality is the ballast case. They were blemished when we got them. But we repainted them to save you $$$. Glass is Usually Bad Sometimes you’ll see lights with glass lens. Glass actually hinders optical performance. You can see yourself in a glass pane because glass reflects back about 10% of the light that strikes it head on. (It’s snell’s law from basic physics) But suppose the light does not hit the glass head on. If it hits the glass at more than a 50 degree angle, much of the light is actually absorbed by the glass or reflected. And most of those rectangular box lights you see have so poorly shaped reflectors that can’t direct light straight down. And what happens with this absorbed light? Well, it’s converted into heat. Why pay extra for less light? I’ll offer extra friendly advice on the heat issue. The Lord designed plants for sunlight. And natural sunlight is 50 to 100 times more intense than this light fixture. Do plants suffer for it? NO! Heat energy is actually beneficial. It’s used with light to create sugar. It’s the other half of the photosynthesis reaction. That’s why when we grow corn, we pay close attention to plant degree days. Plants like it hot! On a hot day, you can almost hear the corn grow! Only when you’re growing stuff in unventilated spaces is heat ever an issue. The only way the use of glass can make sense is in completely sealed and power vented fixtures. Visit My eBay Store: Great Lights 4 Less We'll leave the light on for you! Please check below for pertinent shipping & payment information. We hope we can help you out with this great grow light. It certainly is a compact and powerful unit! SHIPPING: Shipping to Alaska & Hawaii is higher - please email for rates. WE DISCOUNT shipping on multiple items & TRY to ECONOMIZE by using regional pkg. delivery companies (or DHL - which includes some insurance) when possible. If we have to ship USPS, insurance is extra. NOTE: OUR NORMAL SHIP TIME IS 1-3 DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF PAYMENT IN FULL. DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL (IE: HIDDEN DAMAGE) - SOME ITEMS MAY TAKE UP TO 2 WEEKS TO SHIP - THOUGH THIS RARELY HAPPENS-WE WANT TO MAKE YOU AWARE THAT THIS CAN HAPPEN. PLEASE BE aware-not all items can ship together. Please advise if address is RESIDENTIAL OR BUSINESS. FOB shipping point, freight prepaid. "Discounted" shipping in listings is FOR LIKE ITEMS ONLY. For discounts on other products shipped together - please email. Customer Satisfaction is our main concern - email with any concerns. PAYMENT: Paypal is our preferred method of payment & ships faster! FEEDBACK: OUR SYSTEM is set to automatically leave positive feedback when items have been paid for and have had positive feedback left. RETURN POLICY / WARRANTY INFO: Our Return Policy and Warranty Information is found in our "about me" page and made a part of this sale by reference.
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