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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #65
>From: Earle Hamilton <ehami at sunny_ncmc.cc.mi.us>
>Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 16:47:02 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Halogen lights
>
>I suspect the subject has been brought up before so I will apologize in
>advance for replowing old ground but while we are talking about light
>sources, what about halogen lights? They can be dimmed, cost very little
>and are a very very concentrated source of light. The main down side I
>can think of is heat and I have no idea what the lumens/watt numbers are.
>
>At any rate, Ace hardware just had a sale where you could get a 500 watt
>unit that looks a little like an oversized auto heatdlight for under ten
>bucks. Any comments on halogen lights would be appreciated.
I think halogen lights are basically like intense incandescent. As for
lumens per watt, I don't have a light meter but I do know in my house I have
200 watts of halogen lighting in one room and it does not seem as bright to
me as the room next to it with 80 watts of fluorescent.
I think you would be dealing with a very hot, inefficient lights that have a
poor spectrum. There is something at one of the web sights that think
basically says the same thing.