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Originally Posted by midgetwaiter
UVL worked with Ice Cap on the bulbs. As far as I know they are the only ballasts that do the T5VHO thing.
I found some actual numbers a while ago that showed LUX output vs bulb temp measured at the cold end but I have lost the link. I had built my retrofit hood with some cooling fans and was taking the temp of the bulbs with an IR thermometer. IIRC without the fans I was was getting a little hot but it was costing me maybe 6% of output or something so I didn't run them often because of the noise. I think it's fair to say that the cooling has an impact but that some people overestimate the impact of it by quite a bit.
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well, since Ice Cap doesn't manufacture ballast but re brands them we can assume one or more of the major manufactures makes a high output ballast so in reality any of the companies could have access to them. Personally I won't even own a Ice Cap product, even if it was free.
Steve
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