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Re: lights



IWayne sez:
> The biggest drawback of the high efficiency system is that you cannot easily
>  buy wide spectrum lamps for a high efficiency system. I mix three 850s with
>  three 841s and it seems to help but I am not sure how well it compares to a
>  wide spectrum lamp. OTOH many people seem to have equally good success with
>  triphosphor lamps although I believe this is probably just due to the fact
>  that the high efficiency system simply puts more light in a tank rather 
than
>  that the spectrum of these lamps is particularily suitable for growing
>  plants.

Have you considered using 950's instead of 850's to approximate the Chroma 
50's?

bob