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Re: hotsie totsie

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: hotsie totsie
From: Dave Gomberg <gomberg at wcf_com>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:20:52 -0700
In-reply-to: <200109061948.f86Jm1M22177 at actwin_com>

At 03:48 PM 9/6/01 -0400, Robert Paul wrote:
>I would be really shocked if that were true. Glass can take a lot of heat
>before cracking, unless the glass is defected. I dont see how a PC could
>ever get that hot. I know people who run combinations of high wattage metal
>halides and PCs in a closed hood inches away from glass. It dont compute!

My AH cfs (2x96w) have cracked both cover glasses on my 50g tall.  Of 
course, my hood is very low profile and the tubes were pretty close to the 
glass.





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